Mark 1:3-5 Hark! Someone is shouting in the desert, 'Get the Lord's way ready, Make his paths straight,' "

Goodspeed⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ Hark! Someone is shouting in the desert, 'Get the Lord's way ready, Make his paths straight,' " ⁴ John the baptizer appeared in the desert, and preached repentance and baptism in order to obtain the forgiveness of sins. ⁵ And all Judea and everybody in Jerusalem went out to him there, and accepted baptism from him in the Jordan River, acknowledging their sins.