Mark 1:5-15

5 And all the Judean region and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem went out to him and were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.

6 And John was dressed in camel's hair and a belt made of leather around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.

7 And he was preaching, saying, "One [who is] more powerful than I is coming after me, of whom I am not worthy to bend down [and]^[a] untie the strap of his sandals.

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

The Baptism of Jesus

9 And it happened that in those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized in the Jordan by John.

10 And immediately [as he]^[b] was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens being split apart and the Spirit descending like a dove on him.

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

The Temptation of Jesus

12 And immediately the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness.

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

Public Ministry in Galilee

14 And after^[c] John {had been taken into custody},^[d] Jesus went into Galilee proclaiming the gospel of God

15 and saying, "The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe in the gospel!"

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Mark 1:5-15 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

Footnotes 4

[a]. *Here "[and]" is supplied because the previous participle ("bend down") has been translated as an infinitive
[b]. *Here "[as]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("was coming up") which is understood as temporal
[c]. Some manuscripts have "Now after"
[d]. Literally "had been handed over"