Mark 1:2-8
2 a As it is written in Isaiah the prophet ▼
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Some manuscripts in the prophets
c “Behold, I send my messenger before your face,who will prepare your way,
3 d the voice of one crying in the wilderness:
e ‘Prepare ▼
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Or crying: Prepare in the wilderness
the way of the Lord,make his paths straight,’”
4 g John appeared, baptizing in h the wilderness and proclaiming i a baptism of j repentance k 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 l confessing their sins. 6 Now John was m clothed with camel’s hair and n wore a leather belt around his waist and ate o locusts and p wild honey. 7 And he preached, saying q “After me comes he who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. 8 r I have baptized you with water, but s he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”
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