Marc 1:1-7

1 Commencement de l'Évangile de Jésus-Christ, Fils de Dieu.

2 Conformément à ce qui avait été écrit dans les prophètes: Voici, j'envoie mon messager devant ta face, qui préparera le chemin devant toi:

3 Voix de celui qui crie dans le désert: Préparez le chemin du Seigneur; aplanissez ses sentiers.

4 Jean baptisait dans le désert, et prêchait le baptême de repentance, pour la rémission des péchés.

5 Et toute la Judée et les habitants de Jérusalem allaient à lui, et ils étaient tous baptisés par lui dans le fleuve du Jourdain, en confessant leurs péchés.

6 Jean était vêtu de poils de chameau, il avait une ceinture de cuir autour de ses reins, et il se nourrissait de sauterelles et de miel sauvage.

7 Et il prêchait en disant: Il en vient un après moi, qui est plus puissant que moi, et dont je ne suis pas digne, en me baissant, de délier la courroie des souliers.

Marc 1:1-7 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.