Mark 1:2-5

Goodspeed(i) 2 As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, "Here I send my messenger on before you; He will prepare your way; 3 Hark! Someone is shouting in the desert, 'Get the Lord's way ready, Make his paths straight,' " 4 John the baptizer appeared in the desert, and preached repentance and baptism in order to obtain the forgiveness of sins. 5 And all Judea and everybody in Jerusalem went out to him there, and accepted baptism from him in the Jordan River, acknowledging their sins.