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He is a voice calling out in the wilderness:
    ‘Prepare the way for the Lord![a]
        Make his paths straight!’”[b]

John was baptizing in the wilderness, proclaiming a baptism about repentance for the forgiveness of sins. People from[c] the whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem were flocking to him, being baptized by him while they confessed their sins.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 1:3 MT source citation reads Lord
  2. Mark 1:3 Cf. Isa 40:3
  3. Mark 1:5 The Gk. lacks People from