Mark 1:6-16

6 Now John was ¹clothed with camel's hair and ²wore a leather belt around his waist and ate ³locusts and ⁴wild honey.

7 And he preached, saying, ⁵"After me comes he who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie.

8 ⁶I have baptized you with water, but ⁷he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit."

The Baptism of Jesus

9 ⁸In those days Jesus ⁹came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

10 And when he came up out of the water, immediately he ¹⁰saw ¹¹the heavens being torn open ¹²and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

11 And ¹³a voice came from heaven, ¹⁴"You are my beloved Son;^[a] with you I am well pleased."

The Temptation of Jesus

12 ¹⁵The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness.

13 ¹⁶And he was in the wilderness forty days, being ¹⁷tempted by ¹⁸Satan. And he was with the wild animals, and ¹⁹the angels were ministering to him.

Jesus Begins His Ministry

14 ²⁰Now after John was arrested, Jesus ²¹came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God,

15 and saying, ²²"The time is fulfilled, and ²³the kingdom of God is at hand; ²⁴repent and believe in the gospel."

Jesus Calls the First Disciples

16 ²⁵Passing alongside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.

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Mark 1:6-16 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO MARK

This is the title of the book, the subject of which is the Gospel; a joyful account of the ministry, miracles, actions, and sufferings of Christ: the writer of it was not one of the twelve apostles, but an evangelist; the same with John Mark, or John, whose surname was Mark: John was his Hebrew name, and Mark his Gentile name, Ac 12:12,25, and was Barnabas's sister's son, Col 4:10, his mother's name was Mary, Ac 12:12. The Apostle Peter calls him his son, 1Pe 5:13, if he is the same; and he is thought to have wrote his Gospel from him {a}, and by his order, and which was afterwards examined and approved by him {b} it is said to have been wrote originally in Latin, or in the Roman tongue: so say the Arabic and Persic versions at the beginning of it, and the Syriac version says the same at the end: but of this there is no evidence, any more, nor so much, as of Matthew's writing his Gospel in Hebrew. The old Latin copy of this, is a version from the Greek; it is most likely that it was originally written in Greek, as the rest of the New Testament.

{a} Papias apud Euseb. Hist. l. 3. c. 39. Tertull. adv. Marcion. l. 4. c. 5. {b} Hieron. Catalog. Script. Eccles. p. 91. sect. 18.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 25

1. [2 Kings 1:8; Zechariah 13:4; Hebrews 11:37]
2. [2 Kings 1:8; Zechariah 13:4; Hebrews 11:37]
3. Leviticus 11:22
4. 1 Samuel 14:26
5. John 1:15, 27; John 3:30, 31; Acts 13:25
6. John 1:26; Acts 1:5; Acts 11:16
7. See John 1:33
8. For ver. 9-11, see Matthew 3:13-17; Luke 3:21, 22; [John 1:32-34]
9. Matthew 2:23
10. Acts 7:56
11. Isaiah 64:1
12. John 1:32, 33; [Luke 4:18, 21; Acts 10:38]
13. John 12:28
14. [Mark 9:7; Psalms 2:7; Isaiah 42:1; Ephesians 1:6; Colossians 1:13; 2 Peter 1:17; 1 John 5:9]
15. See Matthew 4:1-11; Luke 4:1-13
16. [See ver. 12 above]
17. [Hebrews 2:18; Hebrews 4:15]
18. See 1 Chronicles 21:1
19. Matthew 26:53; Luke 22:43
20. Matthew 4:12; Matthew 14:3; Luke 3:20; [John 3:24]
21. Matthew 4:17, 23
22. Daniel 9:25; Galatians 4:4; Ephesians 1:10; [Luke 21:8; John 7:8]
23. See Matthew 3:2
24. Acts 19:4; Acts 20:21; Hebrews 6:1
25. For ver. 16-20, see Matthew 4:18-22; [Luke 5:2-11; John 1:40-42]

Footnotes 1

[a]. Or my Son, my (or the) Beloved

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