Mark 1:1-22

Darby Translation

1 Beginning of the glad tidings of Jesus Christ, Son of God;

² as it is written in [Isaiah] the prophet, Behold, *I* send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way.

³ Voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of [the] Lord, make his paths straight.

⁴ There came John baptising in the wilderness, and preaching [the] baptism of repentance for remission of sins.

⁵ And there went out to him all the district of Judaea, and all they of Jerusalem, and were baptised by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

⁶ And John was clothed in camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins, and ate locusts and wild honey.

⁷ And he preached, saying, There comes he that is mightier than I after me, the thong of whose sandals I am not fit to stoop down and unloose.

⁸ *I* indeed have baptised you with water, but *he* shall baptise you with [the] Holy Spirit.

⁹ And it came to pass in those days [that] Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptised by John at the Jordan.

¹⁰ And straightway going up from the water, he saw the heavens parting asunder, and the Spirit, as a dove, descending upon him.

¹¹ And there came a voice out of the heavens: *Thou* art my beloved Son, in thee I have found my delight.

¹² And immediately the Spirit drives him out into the wilderness.

¹³ And he was in the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan, and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered to him.

¹⁴ But after John was delivered up, Jesus came into Galilee preaching the glad tidings of the kingdom of God,

¹⁵ and saying, The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God has drawn nigh; repent and believe in the glad tidings.

¹⁶ And walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon, and Andrew, [Simon's] brother, casting out a net in the sea, for they were fishers.

¹⁷ And Jesus said to them, Come after me, and I will make you become fishers of men;

¹⁸ and straightway leaving their trawl-nets they followed him.

¹⁹ And going on thence a little, he saw James the [son] of Zebedee, and John his brother, and these [were] in the ship repairing the trawl-nets;

²⁰ and straightway he called them; and leaving their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, they went away after him.

²¹ And they go into Capernaum. And straightway on the sabbath he entered into the synagogue and taught.

²² And they were astonished at his doctrine, for he taught them as having authority, and not as the scribes.