23He said:“I am ‘the voice of one crying out in the desert,“Make straight the way of the Lord,”’[Q][1:23] This is a repunctuation and reinterpretation (as in the synoptic gospels and Septuagint) of the Hebrew text of Is 40:3 which reads, “A voice cries out: In the desert prepare the way of the Lord.”as Isaiah the prophet said.”