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People from[a] the whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem were flocking to him, being baptized by him while they confessed their sins. Now John was dressed in camel’s hair with[b] a leather belt around his waist. He ate grasshoppers[c] and wild honey. He kept proclaiming, “The one who is coming after me is stronger than I am, and I am not worthy to bend down and untie his sandal straps.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 1:5 The Gk. lacks People from
  2. Mark 1:6 Lit. and
  3. Mark 1:6 Or locust-shaped carob seed pods