Mark 1:1-8 ▼

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;

7 And he proclaimed, saying, I indeed baptized you with water; but One cometh after me more powerful than I; the latchet of His sandals I am not worthy, having stooped down, to loose,

8 and He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.