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The beginning of the Gospel of Iesus Christ, the Sonne of God,

As it is written in the Prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

The voice of one crying in the wildernesse, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

Iohn did baptize in the wildernesse, and preach the baptisme of repentance, for the remission of sinnes.

And there went out vnto him all the land of Iudea, and they of Ierusalem, and were all baptized of him in the riuer of Iordane, cofessing their sinnes.

And Iohn was clothed with camels haire, and with a girdle of a skin about his loines: and he did eat locusts and wilde honie,

And preached, saying, There commeth one mightier then I after me, the latchet of whose shooes I am not worthy to stoupe downe, and vnloose.

I indeed haue baptized you with water: but hee shall baptize you with the holy Ghost.