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Mark 1:1-11

Beginning of the glad-message of Jesus Christ. According as it is written in Isaiah the prophet, Lo! I send my messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way. A voice of one crying aloud, In the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight be making his paths. 

John the Immerser came in the wildernesss, proclaiming an immersion of repentance for the remission of sins; and there were going out unto him all the Judaea country and all they of Jerusalem, and were being immersed by him in the Jordan river, openly confessing their sins; and John was clothed with camel’s-hair and a leathern girdle about his loins, and was eating locusts and wild honey; and he proclaimed, saying, He that is mightier than I cometh after me, of whom I am not worthy to stoop and unloose the strap of his sandals: I have immersed you with water, He will immerse you with the Holy Spirit. 

The Baptism of Jesus

And it came to pass in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was immersed into the Jordan by John; And straightway, as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens rending asunder, and the Spirit as a dove descending unto him; and a voice came out of the heavens, Thou art my Son, the Beloved, In thee I delight. 

{Quotation from the Emphasized Bible}