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1\u00a0<\/span>The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. <\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

2\u00a0<\/sup>As it is written in the Prophets: <\/span>\u201cBehold, I send My messenger before Your face, w<\/span><\/span>ho will prepare Your way before You.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

3 <\/sup>\u201cThe<\/span> voice of one crying in the wilderness: <\/span><\/span>\u2018Prepare the way of the<\/span> Lord<\/span>; m<\/span><\/span>ake His paths straight.\u2019 \u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

beginning (v.1) = origin, the first person or thing in a series. In Greek, it does not have a definite article, which makes it a title. Mark may have intended this first sentence to be his title for the book.<\/h3>\n

gospel (v.1) = a message of good news. The word was used in the first century to refer to good news of any sort.<\/h3>\n

Of Jesus Christ (v.1) — [Jesus is] the transliterated form of the Hebrew word we know as Jehoshua, which means “Jehovah saves;” Christos, the transliterated form of the Greek word which means “The Anointed One;” in the first name we have the deity, humanity, and atonement of our Lord, in the second, the fact that He is the Anointed of God, to Israel, its Messiah. [The tense indicates that] the good news is not preached by Jesus Christ but is concerning Him. The message announces Him. … The word “Son” is without the article in the Greek text. Emphasis is therefore upon character or nature. Jesus Christ is Son of God by nature. \u2014 Wuest, page 11.<\/span><\/h3>\n

As (v.2) = just as. In Greek, written in a way that emphasizes the accuracy of what has been written.<\/h3>\n

In the Prophets (v.2) — The best Greek texts have “in Isaiah the prophet.” The quotation is from Malachi 3:1 and Isaiah 40:3. That the first verse isn’t from Isaiah isn’t an issue since Mark used it simply as an introduction to the Isaiah quote in v.3.<\/h3>\n

Behold (v.2) — “Pay attention.”<\/h3>\n

send (v.2) = commission, like an ambassador or envoy. John was God’s ambassador who was given a commission to proclaim Christ.<\/h3>\n

messenger (v.2) — basically, the same as “send,” but as a noun instead of a verb.<\/h3>\n

prepare (v.2) = furnish, equip, prepare, make ready.<\/h3>\n

Your, You (v.2) — referring to Jesus Christ.<\/h3>\n

way (v.2) = road.<\/h3>\n

The voice (v.3) — In Greek “a” voice. John wasn’t the only messenger sent to Israel.<\/h3>\n

crying (v.3) = shout, speak with a high, strong voice –“to cry out” in a way that expresses feeling.<\/h3>\n

wilderness (v.3) = a solitary, lonely, desolate, uninhabited place. Specifically, land in Judea suitable only for pasture.<\/h3>\n

prepare (v.3) — Used as a figure drawn from the oriental custom of sending on before kings on their journeys persons to level the roads and make them passable, thus [here], to prepare the minds of men to give the Messiah a fit reception and secure His blessings. … [the tense indicates] a summary command given with military snap and curtness, and was a command to be obeyed at once. \u2014 Wuest, page 14.<\/span><\/h3>\n

make (v.3) — The tense indicates a command to be continuously obeyed.<\/h3>\n

paths (v.3) — not a literal road or path, but the attitude of the people of Israel.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1\u00a0The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. 2\u00a0As it is written in the Prophets: \u201cBehold, I send My messenger before Your face, who will prepare Your way before You.\u201d 3 \u201cThe voice of one crying … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8815,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814\/revisions\/8815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}