3 Isaiah the prophet spoke about this man when he said,“A voice cries out in the desert:‘Prepare the way for the Lord!Make his paths straight!’ ”
4 John wore clothes made from camel’s hair and had a leather belt around his waist. His diet consisted of locusts and wild honey.
5 Jerusalem, all Judea, and the whole Jordan Valley went to him.
6 As they confessed their sins, he baptized them in the Jordan River.
7 But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to be baptized, he said to them, “You poisonous snakes! Who showed you how to flee from God’s coming anger?
8 Do those things that prove you have turned to God and have changed the way you think and act.
9 Don’t think you can say, ‘Abraham is our ancestor.’ I can guarantee that God can raise up descendants for Abraham from these stones.