Mark 1:1-8

21st Century King James Version

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

² As it is written in the Prophets: “Behold, I send My messenger before Thy face, who shall prepare Thy way before Thee.”

³ “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make His paths straight.’”

⁴ John baptized in the wilderness and preached the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.

⁵ And there went out unto him all the land of Judea and those of Jerusalem; and they were all baptized by him in the River Jordan, confessing their sins.

⁶ And John was clothed with camel’s hair and with a girdle of a skin about his loins, and he ate locusts and wild honey.

⁷ And he preached, saying, “There cometh after me One mightier than I, the strap of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.

⁸ I indeed have baptized you with water, but He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.”