Mark 1:3

"The voice of one crying aloud: `In the Desert prepare a road for the Lord: Make His highways straight.'"

Weymouth NT (1912)

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

2As it is written in Isaiah the Prophet, "See, I am sending My messenger before Thee, Who will prepare Thy way";

4So John the Baptizer came, and was in the Desert proclaiming a baptism of the penitent for forgiveness of sins.

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Cross References

Luke 3:4as it is written in the book of the prophet Isaiah, "The voice of one crying aloud! `In the Desert prepare ye a road for the Lord: make His highway straight.

John 1:19This also is John's testimony, when the Jews sent to him a deputation of Priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him who he was.

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 →

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