Mark 1:1–32

¹Beginning of the glad tidings of Jesus Christ, Son of God; ²as it is written in Isaiah the prophet, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way. ³Voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. ⁴There came John baptising in the wilderness, and preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins. ⁵And there went out to him all the district of Judaea, and all they of Jerusalem, and were baptised by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. ⁶And John was clothed in camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins, and ate locusts and wild honey. ⁷And he preached, saying, There comes he that is mightier than I after me, the thong of whose sandals I am not fit to stoop down and unloose. ⁸I indeed have baptised you with water, but he shall baptise you with the Holy Spirit.

⁹And it came to pass in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptised by John at the Jordan. ¹⁰And straightway going up from the water, he saw the heavens parting asunder, and the Spirit, as a dove, descending upon him. ¹¹And there came a voice out of the heavens: Thou art my beloved Son, in thee I have found my delight. ¹²And immediately the Spirit drives him out into the wilderness. ¹³And he was in the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan, and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered to him.

¹⁴But after John was delivered up, Jesus came into Galilee preaching the glad tidings of the kingdom of God, ¹⁵and saying, The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God has drawn nigh; repent and believe in the glad tidings. ¹⁶And walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon, and Andrew, Simon’s brother, casting out a net in the sea, for they were fishers. ¹⁷And Jesus said to them, Come after me, and I will make you become fishers of men; ¹⁸and straightway leaving their trawl-nets they followed him. ¹⁹And going on thence a little, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, and these were in the ship repairing the trawl-nets; ²⁰and straightway he called them; and leaving their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, they went away after him. ²¹And they go into Capernaum. And straightway on the sabbath he entered into the synagogue and taught. ²²And they were astonished at his doctrine, for he taught them as having authority, and not as the scribes.

²³And there was in their synagogue a man possessed by an unclean spirit, and he cried out ²⁴saying, Eh! what have we to do with thee, Jesus, Nazarene? Art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the holy one of God. ²⁵And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace and come out of him. ²⁶And the unclean spirit, having torn him, and uttered a cry with a loud voice, came out of him. ²⁷And all were amazed, so that they questioned together among themselves, saying, What is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him. ²⁸And his fame went out straightway into the whole region of Galilee around.

²⁹And straightway going out of the synagogue, they came with James and John into the house of Simon and Andrew. ³⁰And the mother-in-law of Simon lay in a fever. And straightway they speak to him about her. ³¹And he went up to her and raised her up, having taken her by the hand, and straightway the fever left her, and she served them. ³²But evening being come, when the sun had gone down, they brought to him all that were suffering, and those possessed by demons;