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1 THE BEGINNING OF THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD.
2 As it is written in the Prophets: "Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, who will prepare Your way before You."
3 "A voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD; make His paths straight.' "
4 John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
5 And all the Judean country and the inhabitants of Jerusalem went out to him and were all baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.
6 Now John was clothed with camel's hair and with a leather belt around his waist, and was eating locusts and wild honey.
7 And he was preaching, saying, "There comes One after me who is stronger than me, of whom I am not worthy to stoop down and to loose the strap of His sandal.
8 I baptized you in water, but He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit."