Mark 1:3-5 He will be the voice of a man shouting out in the desert, urging people to make the road for the Lord ready to travel on; to make a straight pathway for him.”

AUV⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ He will be the voice of a man shouting out in the desert, [urging people] to make the road for the Lord ready [to travel on]; to make a straight pathway for him.” ⁴ John [the Immerser] came immersing people in the desert and proclaiming that those immersed on the basis of their repentance would receive the forgiveness of sins [from God]. ⁵ And people from throughout all the regions of Judea and all of Jerusalem went out to John [in the desert]. And he immersed them in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.