The voice of him that cries in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
They were not reborn, those who were baptized by John’s baptism, by which Christ himself was baptized. Rather, they were “prepared” by the ministry of a forerunner, who said, “Prepare a way for the Lord”—for him in whom alone they could be reborn.
