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John the Baptist preached in the desert. He preached that people should be baptized because they were sorry for their sins and had turned from them. And they would be forgiven. People from over all the country of Judea and from Jerusalem came to him. They told of their sins and were baptized by John in the Jordan River.

John wore clothes made of hair from camels. He had a leather belt around him. His food was locusts and wild honey.

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