2 as the prophet Isaiah wrote:“I will send my messenger ahead of you,who will prepare your way.”
3 “This is a voice of onewho calls out in the desert:‘Prepare the way for the Lord.Make the road straight for him.’ ”
4 John was baptizing people in the desert and preaching a baptism of changed hearts and lives for the forgiveness of sins.
5 All the people from Judea and Jerusalem were going out to him. They confessed their sins and were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
6 John wore clothes made from camel’s hair, had a leather belt around his waist, and ate locusts and wild honey.
7 This is what John preached to the people: “There is one coming after me who is greater than I; I am not good enough even to kneel down and untie his sandals.
8 I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”