Mark 1:4

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John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.

In those days came John the Immerser, preaching in the wilderness of Judea,

Annas and Caiaphas being chief priests, the word of God came to John the son of Zachariah, in the wilderness.

And John also was immersing in Aenon, near Salim, because there was much water there. And they came and were immersed;

that word, you know, which was published through the whole of Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the immersion that John preached;

John having first preached, before his coming, the immersion of repentance to all the people of Israel.

And he said to them: Into what, then, were you immersed? They replied: Into John's immersion.

And now, why do you delay? Arise, and be immersed, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.