Mark 1:1-8 ▼

1 A beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, Son of God.

2 As it has been written in the Prophets: “Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, || Who will prepare Your way before You.

3 A voice of one calling in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the LORD, || Make His paths straight.”

4 John came immersing in the wilderness, and proclaiming an immersion of conversion for forgiveness of sins,

5 and there were going forth to him all the region of Judea, and they of Jerusalem, and they were all immersed by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

6 And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and a girdle of skin around his loins, and eating locusts and honey of the field,

7 and he proclaimed, saying, “He comes—who is mightier than I—after me, of whom I am not worthy—having stooped down—to loose the strap of His sandals;

8 I indeed immersed you in water, but He will immerse you in the Holy Spirit.”