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Mark - ch 1 v 1 - 20
- Beginning of the glad tidings of Jesus Christ, Son of God;
- as it is written in Isaiah the prophet, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way.
- Voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
- There came John baptising in the wilderness, and preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins.
- And 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.
- And John was clothed in camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins, and ate locusts and wild honey.
- And 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.
- I indeed have baptised you with water, but he shall baptise you with the Holy Spirit.
- And it came to pass in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptised by John at the Jordan.
- And straightway going up from the water, he saw the heavens parting asunder, and the Spirit, as a dove, descending upon him.
- And there came a voice out of the heavens: Thou art my beloved Son, in thee I have found my delight.
- And immediately the Spirit drives him out into the wilderness.
- And he was in the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan, and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered to him.
- But after John was delivered up, Jesus came into Galilee preaching the glad tidings of the kingdom of God,
- and saying, The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God has drawn nigh; repent and believe in the glad tidings.
- And 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.
- And Jesus said to them, Come after me, and I will make you become fishers of men;
- and straightway leaving their trawl-nets they followed him.
- And 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;
- and straightway he called them; and leaving their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, they went away after him.
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