Mark 1:3 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

³ He will be the voice of a man shouting out in the desert, [urging people] to make the road for the Lord ready [to travel on]; to make a straight pathway for him.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, Make his paths straight.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ A voice of one crying in the wilderness [shouting in the desert], Prepare the way of the Lord, make His beaten tracks straight (level and passable)! [Isa. 40:3.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³ The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ye ready the way of the Lord, Make his paths straight;

Common English Bible

³ a voice shouting in the wilderness: “Prepare the way for the Lord; make his paths straight.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ The voice of one crying out in the desert: Prepare the way of the Lord; make straight his paths."

Mark 1:3 Cross References

Matthew 3:3

For this is the man who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, who said, [Isa. 40:3], “[It is] the voice of a man who speaks out in the desert, [urging people to] make the road for the Lord ready [for Him to travel]; to make a straight pathway for Him [to walk on].”

John 1:15

John gave testimony about Jesus, shouting out, ”This person is the one about whom I said, ‘He who will come after me ranks above me because He existed before me.’”

Matthew 3:1

(Thirty years later) In those days, John the Immerser went into the desert of Judea preaching [to Jews], saying,

Luke 3:2

[During this time], while Annas and Caiaphas [Note: This man was Annas’ son-in-law. See John 18:13] were head priests, God’s message came to John [the Immerser], son of Zacharias, [when he was] in the desert [of Judea].