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John the Baptist steps to the threshold, quoting a line that is physically in a jar a hundred and fifty years before he says it.
In plain words
John the Baptist steps forward quoting Isaiah, a line already copied a century and a half before he speaks it, in the scroll later found at Qumran. Luke dates him by the rulers of the day, and a source outside the movement attests him.
The mechanism
THE RUN-UP CLOSES — a man attested by a hostile outside source, paying out words dated in a cave
Scripture
Luke 3:1–4; John 1:23
How it was checked
- EvidenceT6 PHYSICAL / MANUSCRIPT; Status: COMMITTED
- Letter eraTHE PROPHETS AND THE ROAD 776 BC to 4 BC
- Plate — Gustave Doré, La Sainte Bible, 1866 · Public domain · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DoreJohntheBaptistPreachingintheWilderness.jpg
- SourcesSCRIPTURE + SECULAR RECORD — Josephus; ARCHAEOLOGY — 1QIsa-a
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