Companionship is what makes every journey enjoyable.

Today, we continue our journey with Jesus.

Join Scott Pauli as we make brief stops in the Gospel according to Mark.

We trust you will enjoy the journey.

As you make your journey through life, you get to meet a lot of interesting people.

If you travel very much, you especially do. I don't know if you're a people watcher like I am,

but it is very entertaining and enjoyable just to observe people from time to time.

And as we make our journey with Jesus through the Gospel according to Mark,

you're going to meet a wide variety of people, some very interesting characters.

And in Mark chapter 1, as soon as you get past the title verse,

the verse that we've studied first, the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the son of God,

immediately we meet one of those very interesting characters. He is known to us now as John the

Baptist. And we pick up our reading in Mark chapter 1, verse 2, 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 wilderness. Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths

straight. John did baptize in the wilderness and preached the baptism

of repentance for the remission of sins. And they went out into him all the land of Judea,

and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.

And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of his skin about his loins,

and he did eat locust and wild honey, 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.

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