Mark 1:3-8

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. 6Now John was jclothed with camel’s hair and kwore a leather belt around his waist and ate llocusts and mwild honey. 7And he preached, saying, nAfter me comes he who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. 8 oI have baptized you with water, but phe will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”

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