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."