Mark 1:3-5

3 athe voice of one crying in the wilderness:
bPrepare
Or  crying: Prepare in the wilderness
the way of the Lord,
make his paths straight,’”
4 dJohn appeared, baptizing in ethe wilderness and proclaiming fa baptism of grepentance hfor the forgiveness of sins. 5And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, iconfessing their sins.
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