Marcos 1:1-8

1 Principio del evangelio de Jesucristo, Hijo de Dios.

2 Como está escrito en el profeta Isaías: HE AQUI, YO ENVIO MI MENSAJERO DELANTE DE TU FAZ, EL CUAL PREPARARA TU CAMINO.

3 VOZ DEL QUE CLAMA EN EL DESIERTO: "PREPARAD EL CAMINO DEL SEÑOR, HACED DERECHAS SUS SENDAS."

4 Juan el Bautista apareció en el desierto predicando el bautismo de arrepentimiento para el perdón de pecados.

5 Y acudía a él toda la región de Judea, y toda la gente de Jerusalén, y confesando sus pecados, eran bautizados por él en el río Jordán.

6 Juan estaba vestido de pelo de camello, tenía un cinto de cuero a la cintura, y comía langostas y miel silvestre.

7 Y predicaba, diciendo: Tras mí viene uno que es más poderoso que yo, a quien no soy digno de desatar, inclinándome, la correa de sus sandalias.

8 Yo os bauticé con ^[a] agua, pero El os bautizará con el Espíritu Santo.

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Marcos 1:1-8 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