Mark 1:2-8 according as it is written in Isaiah the prophet, (Lo! I am dispatching My messenger before Thy face, who shall be constructing Thy road in front of Thee.):"

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ² according as it is written in Isaiah the prophet, (Lo! I am dispatching My messenger before Thy face, who shall be constructing Thy road in front of Thee.):" ³ The voice of one imploring: 'In the wilderness make ready the road of the Lord! Straight...be making the highways'of Him!" ⁴ John the baptist came to be in the wilderness and is heralding a baptism of repentance for the pardon of sins. ⁵ And out to him went the entire province of Judea, and all the Jerusalemites, and they were baptized by him in the Jordan river, confessing their sins." ⁶ And John was dressed in camel's hair, and had a leather girdle about his loins, and was eating locusts and wild honey." ⁷ And he heralds, saying, "Coming, after me, is One stronger than I, the thong of Whose sandals I am not competent to stoop and loose." ⁸ I, indeed, baptize you in water, yet He shall be baptizing you in holy spirit."