We need a holy heart transplant. Maybe then Christ will be born in you, in me. O comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that she has served her term, that her penalty is paid, that she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins. Then the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all people shall see it together, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
All people are grass, their constancy is like the flower of the field.
The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. And people from the whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem were going out to him, and were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. Now John was clothed with camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.