John the Baptist Prepares the Way

1 ^aThe beginning of the gospel of Jesus ^bChrist, the ^cSon of God.¹

11 And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, ^x“You are the ^ySon of God.”

39 ^lAnd when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that in this way he¹ breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the ^mSon² of God!”