I am 'the voice of one crying out in the desert,
"Make straight the way of the Lord,

I am ‘the voice of one crying out in the desert,
“Make straight the way of the Lord,

John (the Baptist) stands as prophets do to this very day, as an unyielding presence unsettling us and leaving us not quite sure of how we feel about him.
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And yet John seems hard to know, hard to like even though we stand back in admiration of him. We react the same way to most absolute figured.

God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life.