Mark 1:1-8 ▼

1 The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, God's Son.

2 As it has been written in Isaiah the prophet, "Behold, I send My messenger before Thy face, who shall prepare Thy way;

3 the voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make His paths straight.'"

4 John came, who was immersing in the wilderness, and preaching the immersion of repentance unto remission of sins.

5 And there went out to him all the country of Judea and all those of Jerusalem, and were being immersed by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

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

7 And he preached, saying, "There cometh after me One Who is mightier than I, the latchet of Whose shoes I am not worthy, stooping down, to loose.

8 I immersed you in water; but He will immerse you in the Holy Spirit."