Matthew Poole and continuators on John 1:23

23 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias .

We had the same, Matth. 3.3. Mar. 1.3. See the Notes there. Chemnitius thinks, that Iohn chose rather to preach, and fulfil his Ministry in the Wilderness, than in the Temple; to make an illustrious difference betwixt himself, who was but the Lords Messenger, and whose Office was but to prepare the Lords way, and his Lord himself, of whom it was Prophecied, Mal. 3.1. The Lord, whom you seek, shall suddenly come to his Holy Temple; upon which account Haggai prophecied, Haggai 2.9. That the Glory of that latter house (builded by Ezra, and Zerobabel, and Nehemiah) should be greater than of the former.

Marginal references: Luc. 3.4. Isa. 40.3.