Mark 1:2 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

² It was even written in Isaiah, the prophet [Note: Verse 2 is quoted from Mal. 3:1; verse 3 from Isa. 40:3], “Look, I am sending my messenger on ahead of you. He will prepare the way for you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, Which shall prepare thy way before thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Just as it is written in the prophet Isaiah: Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, who will make ready Your way–[Mal. 3:1.]

American Standard Version (1901)

² Even as it is written in Isaiah the prophet, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way;

Common English Bible

² happened just as it was written about in the prophecy of Isaiah: Look, I am sending my messenger before you. He will prepare your way,

Catholic Public Domain Version

² As it has been written by the prophet Isaiah: "Behold, I send my Angel before your face, who shall prepare your way before you.

Mark 1:2 Cross References

Luke 1:76

Yes, you [my] child [i.e., John], will be called the prophet of the Highest [i.e., God], for you will go ahead of the Lord’s presence to prepare His ways.

Matthew 11:10

He is the one about whom it was written [Mal. 3:1], ‘Look, I [will] send my messenger on ahead of you. He will prepare the pathway in front of you.’

Luke 1:70

(as He spoke through the message of the holy prophets of long ago).

Matthew 26:31

Then Jesus said [to His disciples], “All of you will have doubts about me tonight, for it is written [Zech. 13:7], ‘I will strike down the shepherd and the sheep of the flock will be scattered everywhere.’

Luke 18:31

Then Jesus took the twelve apostles with Him, saying to them, “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem and [while there] everything written in [the writings of] the prophets will be fulfilled concerning the Son of man.

Matthew 26:24

The Son of man is going [to die], but it is too bad for that person through whom the Son of man is turned over [to the Jewish leaders]! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

Matthew 2:5

They replied to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for this is what was written by the prophet [Micah 5:2],