1. The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
2. As it is written in the Prophets: “Look, I am sending My messenger before Your face,who will prepare Your way before You.”
3. “The voice of one crying in the wilderness:‘Prepare the way of the Lord,make His paths straight.’ ”
4. John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.
5. The whole region of Judea and all the people of Jerusalem went out to him and were all baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.
6. John was clothed with camel’s hair and with a leather belt around his waist. And he ate locusts and wild honey.
7. He preached saying, “After me is coming One mightier than I, the straps of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and untie.
8. I indeed have baptized you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”
9. In those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.
10. Coming up out of the water, He immediately saw the heavens opened and the Spirit descending on Him like a dove.
11. And a voice came from heaven, saying, “You are My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.”
12. The Spirit immediately drove Him into the wilderness.
13. And He was there in the wilderness for forty days, tempted by Satan, and was with the wild beasts. And the angels ministered to Him.