A voice of one calling: "Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert.
Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square8:25
Significance
Baptist identifies role as herald of new exodus, announcing God's return to Zion. Calls people to repentance to prepare for Messiah. Invokes larger exodus motif with themes of salvation and God's glory. Qumran community also applied this passage to themselves (1QS VIII, 14; 4Q259 III, 4-5).
