{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/pnt/mar001.htm","path":"bib/cmt/pnt/mar001.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/pnt/mar001.htm","text":"The People's New Testament, B.W. Johnson, [1891]\nThe beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ. This is a sort of title. The whole history of Jesus is an unfolding of the gospel.\nGospel. Good news.\nJesus. The personal name given by the angel (Mat 1:21), meaning \"Savior.\"\nChrist. The official title of the Lord. It means the anointed. Kings and priests were anointed in Israel, and Jesus, \"the Lord's Anointed\" is our Priest and King. They were anointed with oil; Jesus with the Holy Spirit.\nAs it is written in the prophets. Isa 40:3 and Mal 3:1. See notes on Mat 3:3 and Mat 11:10.\nJohn did baptize in the wilderness. Of Judea. See note on Mat 3:1, for account of the wilderness and John the Baptist.\nAnd preached the baptism of repentance. He preached, as well as baptized. Only those who repented were fit subjects of baptism. Hence it was called the \"baptism of repentance.\" Repentance signifies, not only sorrow for sin, but the resolve to sin no more.\nFor remission of sins. This indicates the object of repentance and baptism. Those who repented and were baptized were pardoned. Both were needful to remission. Compare Act 2:38.\nThere went out to him. See notes on Mat 3:5-6.\nJohn was clothed with camel's hair. See note on Mat 3:4.\nThere cometh one after me. See note on Mat 3:11.\nShall baptize you with the Holy Ghost. See note on Mat 3:11.\nIn those days. When John had been preaching and baptizing about six months. For the account of the baptism of Jesus see Mat 3:13-17, and the notes.\nComing up straightway out of the water. The Greek preposition translated \"out of\" is ek, which means out from within. This could only be true of immersion. Thus all great and candid Pedo-baptist scholars concede that Christ was baptized.\nTempted of Satan. See Mat 4:1-11, and the notes.\nNow after John was put into prison. Mark proceeds to the account of the Savior's public ministry in Galilee. Between Christ's baptism and this occurred the events narrated in John, chapters 2, 3 and 4. For notes on this ministry see Mat 4:12-25.\nHe saw Simon. For notes on the call of the four apostles see Mat 4:18-22.\nThey went into Capernaum. For account of Capernaum see note on Mat 4:13.\nEntered into the synagogue. For description of a Jewish synagogue see note on Mat 4:23 .\nThey were astonished at his doctrine. See note on Mat 7:28.\nScribes. For account of scribes see notes on Mat 5:20.\nA man with an unclean spirit. See note on Mat 8:28. Compare Luk 4:31-37. The New Testament plainly teaches that demoniac possession was a real and actual possession of the soul by a fallen spirit.\nWhat have we to do with thee? A common Jewish way of saying, \"Do not trouble us.\"\nArt thou come to destroy us? An admission that Christ came to destroy the devil and his works.\nI know thee. The demon made a better confession that most of the Jews.\nHe came out of him. At the command. The whole account shows that there was a real possession by an evil spirit.\nThey were all amazed. Those in the synagogue.\nHis fame spread abroad. For notes on the increasing fame of Christ see Mat 4:25; for notes on the healing of Peter's wife's mother, see Mat 8:14.\nAnd in the morning. See note on Mat 8:17.\nSimon. Peter and the other disciples.\nLet us go into the next towns. The villages of Galilee.\nThroughout all Galilee. This was the first missionary circuit of Galilee. Galilee was then densely peopled. Josephus says it contained 240 towns and villages.\nThere came a leper. See notes on Mat 8:2-4. Compare also Luk 5:12-15. This miracle occurred after the Sermon on the Mount. Leprosy, that terrible scourge of the East, is unknown in our times, or even in the United States.\nShew thyself to the priest. At Jerusalem.\nThose things which Moses commanded. See Lev 14:4-7, and note on Mat 8:4.\nCame to him from every quarter. Not only to see and hear, but to be healed.","title":"The People's New Testament: Mark: Mark Chapter 1","type":"page"}