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Mark 1

¹The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ.

²Just as it was written in Isaiah the prophet:
"Look! I'm sending my messenger before you,
who will prepare your path
³"He's a voice crying out in the wilderness:
'Prepare the way of the Lord!
Make his paths straight!"

⁴John came baptizing in the desert and preaching a baptism with repentance for the forgiveness of sins. ⁵And all of the Judean countryside were coming out to him, and even all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, as they confessed their sins. ⁶Now John was dressed in Camel's hair and had a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey. ⁷And he was preaching, saying, "Someone is coming after me, someone stronger, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to bow down and loosen. ⁸I baptized you with water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit."

⁹Now in those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and he was baptized in the Jordan by John. ¹⁰And immediately as he rose up out of the water he saw the heavens torn open and the Spirit like a dove descending into him. ¹¹And a voice came from the heavens, "You are my beloved son, with whom I'm pleased." ¹²And immediately the Spirit threw him into the desert, ¹³and he was in the desert for fourty days being tempted by Satan, and he was with the wild beasts, but the angels served him. ¹⁴Now after John was handed over, Jesus came into Galilee proclaiming the good news about God ¹⁵and saying,
"The time has been fulfilled,
and the kingdom of God is near!
Repent
and put your trust in the good news!"

¹⁶And as he was going by the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew, Simon's brother, throwing fish nets in the sea, for they were fishermen. ¹⁷And Jesus said to them, "Follow after me, and I will make you become fishers of human beings." ¹⁸So immediately the left their nets and they followed him. ¹⁹And going on a little bit he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother. They were in the boat mending the nets, ²⁰and he immediately called them. So leaving their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired help they went after him.

²¹And they entered Capernaum. And immediately on the Sabbath days he went into the synagogue and began to teach. ²²And they were amazed at his teaching, for he was teaching them as someone having authority, and not as the scribes. ²³And immediately there was in their synagogue a man in an unclean spirit and he cried out, ²⁴saying, "What is it with you and with me, Jesus of Nazereth? Have you come to destroy us? I know you! I know who you are! The Holy One of God!" ²⁵And Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Shut up and come out of him." ²⁶And the unclean spirit shook him up and cried out with a loud voice and came out of him. ²⁷And everyone was amazed, so as to discuss among themselves saying, "What is this? A new teaching with authority! He rebukes even the unclean spirits and they obey him." ²⁸And the rumor about him went out every into all the surrounding countryside of Galilee.

²⁹And immediately as he came out of the synagogue he went into Simon's house. ³⁰Now Simon's mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and immediately they told him about her. ³¹And coming near he raised her up, taking her hand, and the fever left her, and she served them.

³²And it became evening, when the son went down they were bringing him everyone who was sick and those troubled by demons. ³³And the whole city gathered near the door. ³⁴And he healed many who were ill with various diseases, and he threw out many demons but he wouldn't allow the demons to speak because they knew him.

³⁵And he rose up very early while it was still night and went out and went away into a deserted place where he could pray. ³⁶And Simon and those with him pursued Jesus, ³⁷and they found him and they said to him, "Everybody is looking for you!" ³⁸And he said to them, "Let us go elsewhere into the nearby country towns, so that I might preach there as well. Because it was for this that I went forth." ³⁹And he went into all of Galilee preaching in their synagogues and casting out the demons.

⁴⁰And a leper came to him, pleading with him and saying to him, "If you wish, you can cleanse me!" ⁴¹And he was moved with pity and stretched out his hand and touched him and told him, "I want to. Be clean!" ⁴²And immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean. ⁴³And he warned him forcefully and immediately sent him away. ⁴⁴He told him, "Be sure that you don't tell anyone anything, but go, show yourself to the priest and bring the offering for your cleansing as Moses commanded for a witness to them." ⁴⁵But he went and proclaimed repeatedly, and spread the word, so that Jesus could no longer enter a city openly, but he stayed outside in deserted places and people came to him from everywhere.

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