Marcos 1:1-8

1 Juan el Bautista prepara el camino
Esta es la Buena Noticia acerca de Jesús el Mesías, el Hijo de Dios.
Comenzó

2 tal como el profeta Isaías había escrito:
«Mira, envío mi mensajero delante de ti,
y él preparará tu camino.

3 Es una voz que clama en el desierto:
“¡Preparen el camino para la venida del Señor
!
¡Ábranle camino!”»
.

4 Ese mensajero era Juan el Bautista. Estaba en el desierto y predicaba que la gente debía ser bautizada para demostrar que se había arrepentido de sus pecados y vuelto a Dios para ser perdonada.

5 Toda la gente de Judea, incluidos los habitantes de Jerusalén, salían para ver y oír a Juan; y cuando confesaban sus pecados, él los bautizaba en el río Jordán.

6 Juan usaba ropa tejida con pelo rústico de camello y llevaba puesto un cinturón de cuero alrededor de la cintura. Se alimentaba con langostas y miel silvestre.

7 Juan anunciaba: «Pronto viene alguien que es superior a mí, tan superior que ni siquiera soy digno de inclinarme como un esclavo y desatarle las correas de sus sandalias.

8 Yo los bautizo con
agua, ¡pero él los bautizará con el 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.