Mark 1:3
Good News Translation
Someone is shouting in the desert, 'Get the road ready for the Lord; make a straight path for him to travel!'"

New Revised Standard Version
the voice of one crying out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,’”

Contemporary English Version
In the desert someone is shouting, 'Get the road ready for the Lord! Make a straight path for him.'"

New American Bible
A voice of one crying out in the desert: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.’ ”

Douay-Rheims Bible
A voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way of the Lord; make straight his paths.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way of the Lord; make straight his paths.

Isaiah 40:3-5 The voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the wilderness the paths of our God. . . .

Matthew 3:3 For this is he that was spoken of by Isaias the prophet, saying: A voice of one crying in the desert, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.

Luke 3:4-6 As it was written in the book of the sayings of Isaias the prophet: A voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight his paths. . . .

John 1:15,19-34 John beareth witness of him and crieth out, saying: This was he of whom I spoke: He that shall come after me is preferred before me: because he was before me. . . .

John 3:28-36 You yourselves do bear me witness that I said that I am not Christ, but that I am sent before him. . . .

Context
The Mission of John the Baptist
2As it is written in Isaias the prophet: Behold I send my angel before thy face, who shall prepare the way before thee. 3A voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way of the Lord; make straight his paths. 4John was in the desert, baptizing and preaching the baptism of penance, unto remission of sins.…
Cross References
Isaiah 40:3
The voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the wilderness the paths of our God.

Matthew 3:1
And in those days cometh John the Baptist preaching in the desert of Judea.

Matthew 3:3
For this is he that was spoken of by Isaias the prophet, saying: A voice of one crying in the desert, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.

Luke 3:2
Under the high priests Anna and Caiphas: the word of the Lord was made unto John, the son of Zachary, in the desert.

Luke 3:4
As it was written in the book of the sayings of Isaias the prophet: A voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.

John 1:23
He said: I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaias.

Mark 1:2
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