Just as it is written in the prophet Isaiah,

“Behold, I am sending my messenger before your face,
    who will prepare your way,
the voice of one shouting in the wilderness,
    ‘Prepare the way of the Lord,
    make straight his paths!’”[a]

John was there baptizing in the wilderness, proclaiming[b] a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 1:3 A quotation from Isa 40:3
  2. Mark 1:4 Some manuscripts have “and proclaiming”