Mark 1:4 - Easy To Read Version

⁴ So John the Baptizer came and was baptizing people in the desert area. He told the people to be baptized {\cf2\super [5]} to show they wanted to change their lives. Then their sins would be forgiven.

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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 Tagairtí Cros

Matthew 3:11

“I baptize {\cf2\super [41]} you with water to show that you changed your hearts and lives. But there is a person coming later that is greater than I am. I am not good enough to take off his shoes for him. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit {\cf2\super [42]} and with fire.

Matthew 3:6

People told the sins they had done, and John baptized {\cf2\super [36]} them in the Jordan River.

Mark 1:5

All the people from Judea and Jerusalem went out to John. These people told the sins they had done, and then they were baptized by John in the Jordan River.

Luke 1:77

You will make his people know\par that they will be saved.\par They will be saved by having\par their sins forgiven.\par

John 3:23

John was also baptizing people in Aenon. Aenon is near Salim. John was baptizing there because there was plenty of water. People were going there to be baptized.

Acts 10:37

You know what has happened all over Judea. It began in Galilee after John {\cf2\super [211]} told the people they needed to be baptized. {\cf2\super [212]}

Acts 22:16

Now, don’t wait any longer. Get up, be baptized {\cf2\super [440]} and wash your sins away. Do this, trusting in him (Jesus) \{to save you\}.’