Mark 1:1-8
John the Baptist Prepares the Way
1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, a the Son of God. 1
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b As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, 2 c "Behold, I send my messenger before your face,
who will prepare your way,
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d the voice of one crying in the wilderness:
e 'Prepare 3 the way of the Lord,
make his paths straight,'"
4 f John appeared, baptizing in g the wilderness and proclaiming h a baptism of i repentance j for the forgiveness of sins. 5 And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, k confessing their sins. 6 Now John was l clothed with camel's hair and l wore a leather belt around his waist and ate m locusts and n wild honey. 7 And he preached, saying, o "After me comes he who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. 8 p I have baptized you with water, but q he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit"