He went into all the vicinity of the Jordan,(A) proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,(B) as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah:

A voice of one crying out in the wilderness:
Prepare the way for the Lord;
make his paths straight!
Every valley will be filled,
and every mountain and hill will be made low;[a]
the crooked will become straight,
the rough ways smooth,

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Footnotes

  1. 3:5 Lit be humbled

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