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23 John[a] said, “I am the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, ‘Make straight[b] the way for the Lord,’[c] as the prophet Isaiah said.”

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Footnotes

  1. John 1:23 tn Grk “He”; the referent (John the Baptist) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  2. John 1:23 sn This call to “make straight” is probably an allusion to preparation through repentance.
  3. John 1:23 sn A quotation from Isa 40:3.