“The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. ‘” Luke 3:3

John the Baptist was a troublesome man.

John’s father, Zechariah, had been a priest in the Temple at Jerusalem, a professional Religious man. John chose a very different lifestyle. He became deeply angry with the religious people. He saw them as guilty of corruption and hypocrisy and he told them so in no uncertain terms. Not a dangerous thing to do nowadays, but in the days of John …