as it is written in Isaiah the prophet:

‘I will send my messenger ahead of you,
    who will prepare your way’[a] –
‘a voice of one calling in the wilderness,
“Prepare the way for the Lord,
    make straight paths for him.”’[b]

And so John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 1:2 Mal. 3:1
  2. Mark 1:3 Isaiah 40:3