Scofield's Reference Notes - Mark 1:5
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Let's turn to Mark's gospel.Mark was a young man when Jesus was crucified, perhaps about twelve years old. So, the gospel that he writes is considered to be the understanding that he received from listening to Peter relate the stories of Jesus Christ. Peter does call Mark his son; that would be son in the faith. And Mark was a companion of Peter through much of Peter's ministry, and thus, heard Peter relate these stories of Jesus Christ. And so in his gospel, you have pretty much Peter's... read more
Mark 1:1 . The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. This commencement is laconic, beautiful, and perspicuous. Several Greek authors begin their books in this independent way. It asserts the divine and human geniture of Christ. He is the Seed, the Son of the woman, of Abraham, of David. Pagan fable, which once had pure tradition for its origin, asserts the same. To apostatize from this faith is an apostasy from the faith of the primitive world. They all expected the... read more
Mark 1:5And there went out to him all the land of Judaea.The Baptist’s audienceIt was a mixed multitude of almost every class. The other Evangelists help us to realize its heterogeneous character. There were Pharisees, whose scrupulous routine of external observance had woven around them a web of self-satisfied pride; and Sadducees, whose reaction from superstition had landed them in a cold and heartless infidelity. Among these there would be followers of Shammai, cleaving to tradition and... read more
Mark 1:6And John was clothed with camel’s hair.Rules for sobriety in diet1. It must not exceed our means.2. It must not exceed our station.3. It is to be taken at fit times-when hunger dictates (Psalms 145:15; Ecclesiastes 10:16-17).4. We must use such food as may serve to maintain strength and health of body, not such as tends to the hurt and overthrow of our health.5. Our food should be such as may make us more fit for performance of the duties of our calling and of God’s service. (G.... read more
5 And there went out unto him all the land of Judaea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins. Ver. 5. All the land of Judea ] That is, a great sort of them; but John quickly grew stale to them, John 5:35 . Principium fervet, medium leper, exitus alger. Weak Christians easily fall off, as leaves in autumn, or untimely figs,Revelation 6:13; Revelation 6:13 . read more
6 And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey; Ver. 6. And John was clothed, &c. ] Elias also was a rough hairy man. Those worthies, of "whom the world was not worthy, wandered about in sheep’s skins and goat’s skins," Hebrews 11:37 ; but they were like the ark, goat’s hair without, but pure gold within; or like Brutus’ staff, Cuius intus solidum aurum corneo velabatur eortiee. (Plutarch.) Buchanan seldom... read more
there: Matthew 3:5, Matthew 3:6, Matthew 4:25 baptized: John 1:28, John 3:23 confessing: Leviticus 26:40-Luke :, Joshua 7:19, Psalms 32:5, Proverbs 28:13, Acts 2:38, Acts 19:18, 1 John 1:8-2 Samuel : Reciprocal: Mark 1:33 - General Mark 1:37 - All Luke 3:3 - the country Luke 7:24 - wilderness 1 John 1:9 - we confess read more
clothed: 2 Kings 1:8, Zechariah 13:4, Matthew 3:4 eat: Leviticus 11:22 Reciprocal: Luke 7:33 - came read more
Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 1:1-45
Mark 1:0 The Cure of Simon's Wife's Mother. Pain, sickness, delirium, madness, as great infringements of the laws of nature as the miracles themselves, are such veritable presences to the human experience that what bears no relation to their existence cannot be the God of the human race. And the man who cannot find his God in the fog of suffering, no less than he who forgets his God in the sunshine of health, has learned little either of St. Paul or St. John. I. All suffering is against the... read more