Matthew 3:1
Douay-Rheims
And in those days cometh John the Baptist preaching in the desert of Judea.
Gregory the Great
(Hom. in Ev. i. 7. 2.) Crying in the desert, because he shews to deserted and forlorn Judæa the approaching consolation of her Redeemer.
Source details
A.D. 604 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 3:1-3
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.