Mark 1:6

_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 1:6. _JOHN WAS CLOTHED_, c.] Matthew 3:4, Matthew 3:4....

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 JOHN WAS CLOTHED WITH CAMEL'S HAIR,.... This is a description of John by his clothes; Matthew 3:4, to which may be added, that it was usual for penitents, and men of austere lives, and of the first class for holiness and religion, to live in deserts, to fare hard, and wear coarse apparel. Mention is made of one man, who is called, נתן דצוציתא f, because he had on a garment of goat's hair, which cut his flesh, that so it might atone for him, for he was a penitent: AND WITH A GIRDLE OR SKIN ABOUT HIS LOINS; a leathern one, as in Matthew 3:4, not a golden one, such as the high priest wore, though the g Jews call John an high priest: he was indeed of the priestly race: his father was a priest, but he did not wear a priestly girdle, nor any of the priest's garments; and he ate loc

MARK 1:6 tri,caj {A} Instead of reading, as do all other witnesses, that John the Baptist was clothed with “camel’s hair” (tri,caj kamh,lou), D and ita read “camel’s skin” (de,rrin kamh,lou). Although Turner 2 considered the latter to be the original text of Mark, Lagrange 3 pointed out that camel’s skin is much too thick and hard for Bedouins to think of using it as clothing. Consequently, it appears that scribes who exchanged de,rrin for tri,caj did so without any firsthand knowledge of Near Eastern customs. It may be, as Moulton and Milligan 4...

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)...

CAMEL'S HAIR. Not. skin, but. garment woven with camel's hair. Compare 2 Kings 1:8. ABOUT. Greek. _peri_. App-104. LOCUSTS. See note on Matthew 3:4. WILD HONEY. Plentiful then, and now....