Mark 1:3
A voice of one calling in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the LORD, || Make His paths straight.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
In Context
Cross References
Isaiah 40:3A voice is crying in a wilderness: “Prepare the way of YHWH, || Make straight in a desert a highway for our God.
Luke 3:4as it has been written in the scroll of the words of Isaiah the prophet: “A voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the LORD, || Make His paths straight;
John 1:19And this is the testimony of John when the Jews sent priests and Levites out of Jerusalem, that they might question him, “Who are you?”
Matthew Henry on Mark 1:2-9
Mark We have heard the evidence given in by the first witness to the doctrine and miracles of our Lord Jesus; and now here is another witness produced, who calls for our attention. The second living creature saith, Come, and see, Rev. vi. 3 . Now let us enquire a little, I. Concerning this witness. His name is Mark. Marcus was a Roman name, and a very common one, and yet we have no reason to think, but that he was by birth a Jew; but as Saul, when he went among the nations, took the Roman name of Paul, so he of… Read the whole commentary →