Mark 1:11

Plain English Version

And God said to Jesus, “You are my son. I love you very much, and I’m very happy with you.”

Cross References

Matthew 12:18

“This is the man that God picked to work for himself. God loves him, and he makes God very happy. God will put his spirit in him, and he will tell the people in other nations that God is right and fair.

Matthew 3:17

And God talked from heaven. He said, “This is my son. I love him very much, and I’m very happy with him.”

Mark 1:10

After he got to that place, Jesus went down into the water and John baptised him. As he came up out of the water, Jesus looked up, and he saw the sky split open, and he saw the Holy Spirit. It looked just like a pigeon, and it flew down to Jesus.

Mark 9:7

Then a cloud covered them all, and God talked to them from the cloud. He said, “This is my son. I love him very much. You have to listen properly to him.”

John 3:16

You see, God loved all of the people in the world. He loved everyone so much that he sent them his only son, his special son. God sent him to die instead of them, so that if anyone trusts him, God will not finish them up, but they will live with him for ever.

John 5:37

Yes, God is my father, and he sent me. And he told people about me. But you have never seen him or heard his voice.

John 6:69

We believe your message, and we know that you are God’s special man.”

Colossians 1:13

You know, the boss over the bad spirits always used to push us to do bad things. It’s like we were in a bad place, where he is the boss. But God sent his son, Jesus, to get us out of that place. He took the payback for us, so that now God will not punish us. He set us free from that bad boss, and now we belong to the family of God’s son. God loves his son Jesus very much.