Mark 1:5

_JOHN DID BAPTIZE IN THE WILDERNESS, AND PREACH THE BAPTISM OF REPENTANCE FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

Verse Mark 1:5. _ALL THE LAND_] See on Matthew 3:4. _CONFESSING THEIR SINS._] It was an invariable custom among the Jews to admit no proselyte to baptism, till he had, in the most solemn manner, declared that he forever had renounced all idolatrous worship, all heathenish superstitions, and promised an entire and unreserved submission to the law of Moses. This was necessary for a _proselyte adult _- a _child_ dedicated to God by baptism must be _brought up_ in this faith....

See the notes at Matthew 3:3, Matthew 3:5, Matthew 3:11....

EXPOSITION MARK 1:1 THE BEGINNING OF THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. These words mean, not the title of the book, but the commencement of the narrative; and so they depend upon what follows, namely, "as it is written" (καθῶς for ὠς), "even as it is written." The words "the gospel of Jesus Christ" do not signify the book which St. Mark wrote, but the evangelical teaching of Jesus Christ. St. Mark means that the gospel announcement by Jesus Christ had such a beginning as had been predicted by Isaiah and Malachi, namely, the preaching of John the Baptist, and his testimony concerning Christ, to be fully laid open by the preaching and the death of Christ. The preaching of repentance by the Baptist was the preparation and the beginning of the evangelical preaching by Christ, of whom John was the forerunner. It has been well observed that St. Matthew an

AND THERE WENT OUT UNTO HIM ALL THE LAND OF JUDEA,.... The people of the land, a great number of them: AND THEY OF JERUSALEM; the inhabitants of Jerusalem, hearing of this new preacher, the new doctrine that he taught, and the new ordinance that he administered: AND WERE ALL BAPTIZED OF HIM IN THE RIVER JORDAN, CONFESSING THEIR SINS; that is, as many of them as were brought to a sight and sense of their sins, and made a confession of them, these he baptized, or immersed, in the river Jordan; for certain it is, that there were many of the Pharisees and Sadducees who came, whom he rejected; Matthew 3:5, Matthew 3:6, Matthew 3:7....

SINS (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...

PART I. THE SERVANT; WHO HE IS AND HOW HE CAME Chapter 1:1-13 __ 1. The Servant, the Son of God. (Mark 1:1 .) 2. His coming promised and announced. (Mark 1:2. Matthew 3:1; Luke 3:1; John 1:19 .) 3. The Servant comes forth. (Mark 1:9 .Matthew 3:13; Luke 3:21;...

A brief introductory section showing how the work of John the Baptist, and the baptism and temptation of Jesus, led up to the ministry in Galilee. MARK 1:1 is perhaps best taken as the title to the whole book. It may be a late addition, but it represents the writer's point of view. Like Luke, he relates what Jesus _began_ to do. The life, death, and resurrection of Jesus form in themselves the beginning: the end is not yet. Moreover, the gospel is the fact of Jesus Christ. For Mk. Jesus is not the herald but the content of the gospel (Wellhausen). MARK 1:2. As was foretold in Isaiah, Christ's coming was prepared for by the appearance _of_ a prophet, in the person of John (p. 661), who called the Jewish people to repent, and to prove their repentance by baptizing themselves or letting themselves

THE BEGINNING OF THE STORY (Mark 1:1-4)...

WENT OUT. kept going out. Imperf. Tense. unto. Greek. _pros._ App-104. ALL. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Whole), App-6, for all parts. THE LAND. country, or territory. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject), App-6, for the inhabitants. OF. by. Greek. _hupo._ App-104. THE RIVER OF JORDAN. Occ, only in Mark. CONFESSING. See Matthew 3:6. THEIR. their own....