He went through the whole region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,
In context
1In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, 2during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, son of Zechariah, in the wilderness. 3He went through the whole region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, 4as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. 5Every ravine will be filled in, every mountain and hill leveled; the crooked roads will be made straight and the rough ones smooth,
