Mark 1:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ the voice of one crying out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; make his paths straight,’ ”

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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."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ A voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.

Mark 1:3 Cross References

Matthew 3:1

In those days John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness of Judea, proclaiming,

Matthew 3:3

This is the one of whom the prophet Isaiah spoke when he said, “The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; make his paths straight.’ ”

Luke 3:2

during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness.

John 1:15

(John testified to him and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks ahead of me because he was before me.’ ”)