Study Desk

Beginning of the glad-message of Jesus Christ.

According as it is written in Isaiah the prophet - Lo! I send my messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way, -

A voice of one crying aloud - In the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight, be making his paths.

John the Immerser came, in the wilderness, proclaiming an immersion of repentance for remission of sins;

and there were going out unto him all the Judaea country and all they of Jerusalem, and were being immersed by him in the Jordan river, openly confessing their sins;

and John was clothed with camel's-hair and a leathern girdle about his loins, and was eating locusts and wild honey;

and he proclaimed, saying - He that is mightier than I cometh after me, of whom I am not worthy to stoop and unloose the strap of his sandals:

I, have immersed you, with water, - He, will immerse you, with the Holy Spirit.