Monday, June 11, 2012

Genesis 49:5-7 and Mark 1:4-8 (NIV)

Genesis 49:5-7
Jacob Blesses His Sons (Simeon and Levi)

5  “Simeon and Levi are brothers—their swords are weapons of violence.
6  Let me not enter their council, let me not join their assembly, for they have killed men in their anger and hamstrung oxen as they pleased.
7  Cursed be their anger, so fierce, and their fury, so cruel!  I will scatter them in Jacob and disperse them in Israel. 

Mark 1:4-8
John the Baptist Prepares the Way
4  And so John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. 
5  The whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem went out to him. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
6  John wore clothing made of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.
7  And this was his message: “After me comes the one more powerful than I, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. 
8  I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.” 

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