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22 Then they said, ‘Tell us who you are. We must say something to the people who sent us. What do you say about yourself?’ 23 He said, ‘I am the voice of somebody shouting in the wilderness:

    “The Lord will come soon.
    Make a straight path for him to follow.”
That is what the prophet Isaiah said a long time ago.’[a]

24 The men who came to ask these questions were Pharisees.

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  1. 1:23 See Isaiah 40:3.

22 Finally they said, “Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”

23 John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, “I am the voice of one calling in the wilderness,(A) ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.’”[a](B)

24 Now the Pharisees who had been sent

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  1. John 1:23 Isaiah 40:3