Mark 1:7-9
Contemporary English Version
7 John also told the people, “Someone more powerful is going to come. And I am not good enough even to stoop down and untie his sandals.[a] 8 I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit!”
The Baptism of Jesus
(Matthew 3.13-17; Luke 3.21,22)
9 About that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee, and John baptized him in the Jordan River.
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- 1.7 untie his sandals: This was the duty of a slave.
Mark 1:7-9
King James Version
7 And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.
8 I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.
9 And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan.
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