Marcos 1:1-8

João Batista Prepara o Caminho

1 Princípio do evangelho de Jesus Cristo, o Filho de Deus.^[a]

2 Conforme está escrito no profeta Isaías:“Enviarei à tua frente o meu mensageiro;ele preparará o teu caminho”^[b]

3 “voz do que clama no deserto:‘Preparem^[c] o caminho para o Senhor,façam veredas retas para ele’.^[d]”

4 Assim surgiu João, batizando no deserto e pregando um batismo de arrependimento para o perdão dos pecados.

5 A ele vinha toda a região da Judeia e todo o povo de Jerusalém. Confessando os seus pecados, eram batizados por ele no rio Jordão.

6 João vestia roupas feitas de pelos de camelo, usava um cinto de couro e comia gafanhotos e mel silvestre.

7 E esta era a sua mensagem: “Depois de mim vem alguém mais poderoso do que eu, tanto que não sou digno nem de curvar-me e desamarrar as correias das suas sandálias.

8 Eu os batizo com^[e] água, mas ele os batizará com o Espírito 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