The Beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God

Mark is likely the earliest gospel, so if we're listening to the earliest witnesses about the life of Jesus. Mark begins this to teach us the identity of Jesus by beginning at the baptism. And John isn't dressed in finery, silks and linens and eating the finest foods. He's clothed with camel's hair and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; ate locusts and wild honey.