Mark 1:1–11

¹A beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, Son of God. ²As it hath been written in the prophets, ‘Lo, I send My messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee,’— ³‘A voice of one calling in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight make ye his paths,’— ⁴John came baptizing in the wilderness, and proclaiming a baptism of reformation—to remission of sins, ⁵and there were going forth to him all the region of Judea, and they of Jerusalem, and they were all baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. ⁶And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and a girdle of skin around his loins, and eating locusts and honey of the field, ⁷and he proclaimed, saying, ‘He doth come—who is mightier than I—after me, of whom I am not worthy—having stooped down—to loose the latchet of his sandals; ⁸I indeed did baptize you with water, but he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit.’

⁹And it came to pass in those days, Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John at the Jordan; ¹⁰and immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens dividing, and the Spirit as a dove coming down upon him; ¹¹and a voice came out of the heavens, ‘Thou art My Son—the Beloved, in whom I did delight.’