Mark 1:1-6 ▼

1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

2 As has been written in the prophets; Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who will prepare thy way before thee;

3 the voice of one roaring in the wilderness; Prepare ye the way of the Lord; make His paths straight.

4 John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness the baptism of repentance unto the remission of sins.

5 And all the Judean country and the Jerusalemites were going out unto him, and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

6 And John was clothed with camel's hair and a leathern girdle about his loins, and eating locusts and wild honey;