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A voice of one crying in the wilderness [shouting in the desert], Prepare the way of the Lord, make His [a]beaten tracks straight (level and passable)!(A)

John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness (desert), preaching a baptism [[b]obligating] repentance ([c]a change of one’s mind for the better, heartily amending one’s ways, with abhorrence of his past sins) in order [d]to obtain forgiveness of and release from sins.

And there kept going out to him [continuously] all the country of Judea and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, [e]as they were confessing their sins.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 1:3 James Moulton and George Milligan, The Vocabulary of the Greek Testament.
  2. Mark 1:4 Kenneth Wuest, Word Studies.
  3. Mark 1:4 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament.
  4. Mark 1:4 Charles B. Williams, The New Testament: A Translation in the Language of the People.
  5. Mark 1:5 Kenneth Wuest, Word Studies.

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