Now, in those days there makes his public appearance John the Baptizer, making a public proclamation with that formality, gravity, and authority which must be listened to and obeyed, in the uninhabited region of Judaea, saying, Be having a change of mind which issues in regret and a change of conduct, for there has come near and is imminent the kingdom of heaven. For this man is He who was spoken of through Isaiah, the prophet, saying, A voice of One shouting out in the uninhabited region, Make