The Word Of God

The Book of Mark: Part 1

Mark 1:1-3

John The Baptist prepares the way for Jesus

1: This is the good news about Jesus the Messiah, the son of God.* It began

2: just as the prophet Isaiah had written: Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, and he will prepare your way. *

3: He is a voice shouting in the wilderness, 'Prepare the way for the Lord's coming! Clear the road for him!'*"

1:1 When people are excited about something they want to tell the world, stories are told to give them the thrill like they are reliveing the experience. That is in Mark's first words. As Jesus was in a croud healing and teaching, picture yourself amongst that croud and picture yourself a deciple and responding to his love and encouragment. Remember Jesus came for us who live today in the past many years ago.

1:1 Even though Mark was not one of the 12 disciples of Jesus, he knew him. The christians in Rome worshiped many Gods so he wrote this to remind his readers that Jesus is the one true son of God. At the time and even now the human finite minds couldn't comprehend the infinite. Thanks to those writers like Mark we now understand what he is like. In the very first verse Mark gave the "punch line" of his gospel, but the enemies and diciples of Jesus did not grasp it until his ressurection. To this day we read Mark and see claredy that we can not ignore nor reject Jesus Christ.

1:2,3 Isaiah wrote about the coming of the Messiah, Jesus Christ, and the man who would announce his coming, John the Baptist. John's call to "clear the road for him" meant that people should give up their selfish way of living, renounce their sins, seek God's forgiveness, and establish a relationship with God by believing and obeying his words as found in scripture.