Mark 1:2 KJV — MannaFest

Mark 1:2

As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

KJV

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ASV

Even as it is written in Isaiah the prophet, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way;

WEB

As it is written in Isaiah the prophet: “Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way.”

YLT

As it hath been written in the prophets, `Lo, I send My messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee,' --

DBT

as it is written in [Isaiah] the prophet, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way.

About this book

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Mark — The Gospel of the servant in motion. The narrative hinges at Peter's confession (8:27). Before: the Servant revealed. After: the Servant suffers.

Author: John Mark, companion of Peter (Acts 12:12; 1 Pet 5:13)
Date: c. AD 50–65

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Cross-references

19 verses on the floor

Isaiah 40:3
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Malachi 3:1
Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
John 6:45
It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
Matthew 11:10
For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
Luke 1:76
And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;

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Quotations are here borrowed from two prophecies--that of Isaiah, which was the longest, and that of Malachi, which was the latest (and there were above three hundred years between them), both of whom spoke to the same purport concerning the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, in the ministry of John.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Christ himself had taken notice of this, and applied it to John ( Matt. xi. 10 ), who was God's messenger, sent to prepare Christ's way. Isaiah, the most evangelical of all the prophets, begins the evangelical part of his prophecy with this, which points to the beginning of the gospel of Christ ( Isa. xl.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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The quotation web

Quotes MAL 3:1
'Behold, I send my messenger' (Mark's composite 'as it is written in the prophets', w/ Isa 40:3)
Formula (gegraptai) citing ISA 40:3
kathos gegraptai heading Mark's whole Gospel (composite frame, w/ Mal 3:1) — the formula placed at a book's very threshold

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G438375× in canon G3598101× in canon G649132× in canon G4396144× in canon G32175× in canon G2531182× in canon

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

MRK 1:2MAT 11:10 MAL 3:1
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
MRK 1:2MAL 3:1 MAL 4:5
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
MRK 1:2MAT 11:10 ISA 40:3
MRK 1:2MAL 3:1 MRK 1:2-3
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
MRK 1:2MAT 11:10 JHN 1:23
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
MRK 1:2MAL 3:1 LUK 1:76
MRK 1:2MAT 11:10 LUK 7:26-27
MRK 1:2MAL 3:1 LUK 7:26-28

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