Mark 1:2-5 As it has been written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.

JuliaSmith⁽ⁱ⁾ ² As it has been written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee. ³ A voice of him crying in the desert, Prepare ye the way of the Lord; make his beaten paths straight. ⁴ John was immersing in the desert, and proclaiming the immersion of repentance for the remission of sins. ⁵ And the Judean country, and the Jerusalemites, were going out to him, and all were being immersed by him in the river Jordan, acknowledging their sins.