4John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
5People went out to him from all of Jerusalem and the countryside of Judea. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
— Mark 1:4-5

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