Isaiah was talking about a man called John. God sent him to get things ready for Jesus, so he started to tell people God’s message. He lived out in the bush and wore rough clothes made out of camel’s hair, and a leather belt. He ate grasshoppers and bush honey. John talked to people out there in the bush. He said, “You mob have to be really sorry for the wrong way you are living. You have to turn right around and live God’s way.” He also told them, “If you do that I will take you through a special washing ceremony, I will baptise you.” A lot of people went out into the bush to listen to John. They came from the big town called Jerusalem and from other towns in that country, called Judea. Some people told John that they were sorry for the wrong things they did, so he baptised them in the Jordan River.