Mark 1:1-12

MNT(i) 1 Beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God; 2 even as it is written in the prophet Isaiah, Behold, I am sending my messenger before your face to prepare your way. 3 The voice of one crying aloud. In the desert make ready a road for the Lord. Make his paths straight. 4 In the desert came John who baptized, and preached a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins; 5 and all the land of Judea, and all the people of Jerusalem, kept going out to him, and were baptized by him in the Jordan river, confessing their sins. 6 And John was clothed with camel's hair, and he had a leather girdle round his loins, and he ate locusts, and "honey of the wood." 7 He made proclamation. "There is One mightier than I coming after me, and I am not worthy to stoop down and unfasten his sandal strap; 8 I have baptized you in water, but he shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit." 9 It was at that time that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan; 10 and as soon as he rose from the water he saw the sky cleft asunder, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him, 11 and a voice from the sky. "Thou art my Son, my beloved; in thee is my delight." 12 Then the Spirit drove him at once into the desert,