Mark 1:4 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁴ 2 And immediately the Spirit drove him out into the desert.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness (desert), preaching a baptism [obligating] repentance (a change of one's mind for the better, heartily amending one's ways, with abhorrence of his past sins) in order to obtain forgiveness of and release from sins.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ John came, who baptized in the wilderness and preached the baptism of repentance unto remission of sins.

Common English Bible

⁴ John the Baptist was in the wilderness calling for people to be baptized to show that they were changing their hearts and lives and wanted God to forgive their sins.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ John was in the desert, baptizing and preaching a baptism of repentance, as a remission of sins.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ John was in the desert baptizing, and preaching the baptism of penance, unto remission of sins.

Mark 1:4 Cross References

Matthew 3:11

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.

Matthew 3:6

4 But John stayed him, saying: I ought to be baptized by thee, and comest thou to me?

Mark 1:5

3 And he was in the desert forty days and forty nights, and was tempted by Satan; and he was with beasts, and the angels ministered to him.

Luke 1:77

To be enrolled with Mary his espoused wife, who was with child.

John 3:23

1 He that cometh from above, is above all. He that is of the earth, of the earth he is, and of the earth he speaketh. He that cometh from heaven, is above all.

Acts 10:37

5 And the faithful of the circumcision, who came with Peter, were astonished, for that the grace of the Holy Ghost was poured out upon the Gentiles also.

Acts 22:16

4 The tribune commanded him to be brought into the castle, and that he should be scourged and tortured: to know for what cause they did so cry out against him.