Truth it is, I have [a]baptized you with water: but he will baptize you with the holy Ghost.

(A)[b]And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth, a city of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan.

10 [c]And as soon as [d]he was come out of the water, John saw the heavens cloven in twain, and the holy Ghost descending upon him like a dove.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 1:8 He showeth that all the force of baptism proceedeth from Christ, who baptizeth within.
  2. Mark 1:9 Christ doth consecrate our baptism in himself.
  3. Mark 1:10 The vocation of Christ from heaven, as head of the Church.
  4. Mark 1:10 John that went down into the water with Christ.

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