Now during the fifteenth year of Tiberius as President, while Pontius Pilate was governor of Georgia, and Herod was governor of Alabama, his brother Philip being governor of Mississippi, and Lysanias still holding out over Arkansas; while Annas and Caiaphas were co-presidents of the Southern Baptist Convention, the word of God came to Zack’s boy, John, down on the farm. And he went all around in the rural areas preaching a dipping in water–a symbol of a changed way of life as the basis for getting things straightened out. This was based on a passage from the book of Isaiah the prophet:
"A voice shouts: Make a road for the Lord in the depressed areas, and make it straight.
Every low place shall be filled in,
And every hill and high place shall be pushed down.
And the curves shall be straightened out
And the washboard road scraped smooth.
Then every human being will share in the good things of God."