Mark 1:5

5 People 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 1:5 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 1:5

And there went out unto him all the land of Judea
The people of the land, a great number of them:

and they of Jerusalem;
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, hearing of this new preacher, the new doctrine that he taught, and the new ordinance that he administered:

and were all baptized of him in the river Jordan, confessing their
sins;
that is, as many of them as were brought to a sight and sense of their sins, and made a confession of them, these he baptized, or immersed, in the river Jordan; for certain it is, that there were many of the Pharisees and Sadducees who came, whom he rejected; (See Gill on Matthew 3:5), (See Gill on Matthew 3:6), (See Gill on Matthew 3:7).

Mark 1:5 In-Context

3 “A voice of one calling in the wilderness,

4 John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

5 People 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.

6 John was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.

7 And he proclaimed: “After me will come One more powerful than I, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie.