A moment in scripture
Mark 1:4
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John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.
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The surrounding passage
- Mark 1:2
As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
- Mark 1:3
The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
- Mark 1:5
And there went out unto him all the land of Judea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.
- Mark 1:6
And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.