Marcos 1:1-8

1 Comienza el Evangelio de Jesús, el Cristo, hijo de Dios

2 Como está escrito en Isaías el profeta: He aquí yo envío a mi mensajero delante de tu faz, que apareje tu camino delante de ti

3 Voz del que clama en el desierto: Aparejad el camino del Señor; enderezad sus veredas

4 Bautizaba Juan en el desierto, y predicaba el bautismo del arrepentimiento para remisión de pecados

5 Y salía a él toda la provincia de Judea, y los de Jerusalén; y eran todos, bautizados por él en el río del Jordán, confesando sus pecados

6 Juan andaba vestido de pelos de camello, y con un cinto de cuero alrededor de sus lomos; y comía langostas y miel silvestre

7 Y predicaba, diciendo: Viene tras mí el que es más poderoso que yo, al cual no soy digno de desatar encorvado la correa de sus zapatos

8 Yo a la verdad os he bautizado con agua; mas él os bautizará con Espíritu Santo

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.