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Mark 1
John the Baptist Prepares the Way
1
The be­g in­n ing of the good news ­about
Jesus the Mes­si­a h,  a the Son of God,  b 2  as
it is writ­ten in Isa­iah the proph­et:
“I will send my messenger ahead of you,
who will prepare your way”  c  — ​
3 “a voice of one calling in the wilderness,
‘Prepare the way for the Lord,
make straight paths for him.’ ”  d
4  And so John the Bap­tist ap­p eared in the
wil­der­ness, preach­ing a bap­t ism of re­pen­
tance for the for­give­ness of sins. 5  The ­whole
Ju­de­an coun­try­side and all the peo­ple of Je­
ru­sa­lem went out to him. Con­fess­ing t ­ heir
sins, they were bap­t ized by him in the Jor­
dan Riv­er. 6  John wore cloth­ing made of cam­
el’s hair, with a leath­er belt a ­ round his ­waist,
and he ate lo­custs and wild hon­ey. 7  And this
was his mes­sage: “Af­ter me ­comes the one
more pow­er­ful than I, the s ­ traps of ­whose
san­dals I am not wor­thy to ­stoop down and
un­t ie. 8  I bap­t ize you with  e wa­ter, but he will
bap­t ize you with  e the Holy Spir­it.”
John the Baptist
God sent John the Baptist to tell
people that Jesus the Savior was
coming. John faithfully followed
God. He baptized many people and
told them to ask God to forgive
their sins. Jesus came to be baptized,
and, even though Jesus had never
sinned, John obeyed his request.
12  At once the Spir­it sent him out into the
wil­der­ness, 13  and he was in the wil­der­ness
for ­t y days, be­i ng tempt­ed   f by Sa­tan. He
was with the wild an­i­mals, and an­gels at­
tend­ed him.
Jesus Announces the Good News
14  Af­
t er John was put in pris­on, ­Jesus
went into Gal­i­lee, pro­claim­ing the good
9  At that time ­Jesus came from Naz­a ­reth
news of God. 15  “The time has come,” he
in Gal­i­lee and was bap­t ized by John in the said. “The king­dom of God has come near.
Jor­dan. 10  Just as J ­ esus was com­ing up out Re­pent and be­l ieve the good news!”
of the wa­ter, he saw heav­en be­ing torn
open and the Spir­it de­scend­ing on him like a  1 Or Jesus Christ. Messiah (Hebrew) b and Christ
(Greek) both mean Anointed One.     1 Some
a dove. 11  And a ­voice came from heav­en: manuscripts
do not have the Son of God.    c  2 Mal.
“You are my Son, whom I love; with you I 3:1    d  3 Isaiah 40:3    e  8 Or in    f  13 The Greek
am well pleased.”
for tempted can also mean tested.   
The Baptism and Testing of Jesus
Fishing
In the first century fishermen in
boats worked on the Sea of Gali-
lee. The fish they caught in their
nets were salted or dried and
then sold all through the Holy
Land. Jesus called his first disci-
ples to be fishers of people in-
stead of fishers of fish (Mark
1:16–18).