Mark 1:1-24 ▼

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.”

9 And it came to pass in those days, Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was immersed by John in the Jordan;

10 and immediately coming up from the water, He saw the heavens dividing, and the Spirit coming down on Him as a dove;

11 and a voice came out of the heavens, “You are My Son, the Beloved, in whom I delighted.”

12 And immediately the Spirit puts Him forth into the wilderness,

13 and He was there in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan, and He was with the beasts, and the messengers were ministering to Him.

14 And after the delivering up of John, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of the Kingdom of God,

15 and saying, “The time has been fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God has come near, convert and believe in the good news.”

16 And walking by the Sea of Galilee, He saw Simon, and his brother Andrew, casting a drag into the sea, for they were fishers,

17 and Jesus said to them, “Come after Me, and I will make you to become fishers of men”;

18 and immediately, having left their nets, they followed Him.

19 And having gone on there a little, He saw James of Zebedee, and his brother John, and they were in the boat refitting the nets,

20 and immediately He called them, and having left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants, they went away after Him.

21 And they go on to Capernaum, and immediately, on the Sabbaths, having gone into the synagogue, He was teaching,

22 and they were astonished at His teaching, for He was teaching them as having authority, and not as the scribes.

23 And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, and he cried out,

24 saying, “What [regards] us and You, Jesus the Nazarene? You came to destroy us; I have known You, who You are—the Holy One of God.”