Mark 1:4 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 1:4

John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

John came, who baptized in the wilderness and preached the baptism of repentance unto remission of sins.

KJV

John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.

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Commentary

3 voices

Tertullian

ON BAPTISM 10 (220)

Those who sought the baptism of repentance were dealt with as if candidates preparing for the baptismal remission and sanctification that were soon to follow in the ministry of Christ. When John preached baptism for "the remission of sins," the declaration was made with reference to a future remission. If so, John's call to repentance is to lead the way, and actual remission is to follow. This is what is meant by "preparing the way." But one who prepares does not himself perfect, but rather makes ready for another to perfect.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

John - The original name is nearly lost in the Greek Ιωαννης, and in the Latin Johannes, and almost totally so in the English John. The original name is יהוחנן Yehochanan, compounded of יהוה חנן Yehovah chanan, the grace or mercy of Jehovah: a most proper and significant name for the forerunner of the God of All Grace. It was John’s business to proclaim the Gospel of the grace of God, and to point out that Lamb or sacrifice of God which takes away the sin of the world.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1857)

The Gospel of Mark, which we now begin, is in some respects unlike the other three Gospels. It tells us nothing about the birth and early life of our Lord Jesus Christ. It contains comparatively few of His sayings and discourses. Of all the four inspired histories of our Lord's earthly ministry, this is by far the shortest. But we must not allow these peculiarities to make us undervalue Mark's Gospel. It is a Gospel singularly full of precious facts about the Lord Jesus, narrated in a simple, terse, pithy, and condensed style.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Ἐγένετο	Egeneto	Came	G1096 →
Ἰωάννης	Iōannēs	John	G2491 →
ὁ	ho	who	G3588 →
βαπτίζων	baptizōn	is baptizing	G907 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τῇ	tēa	the	G3588 →
ἐρήμῳ	erēmō	wilderness	G2048 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
κηρύσσων	kērussōn	proclaiming	G2784 →
βάπτισμα	baptisma	[a] baptism	G908 →
μετανοίας	metanoias	of repentance	G3341 →
εἰς	eis	for	G1519 →
ἄφεσιν	aphesin	forgiveness	G859 →
ἁμαρτιῶν.	hamartiōn	of sins.	G266 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 3:6
Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
leads to
- Acts 19:18
  Many who had believed now came forward, confessing and disclosing their deeds.
- Matthew 3:13–16
  At that time Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John.
- 1 John 1:9
  If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Through
John 3:23
Now John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because the water was plentiful there, and people kept coming to be baptized.
leads to
- Mark 1:4–5
  John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
- Ezekiel 43:2
  and I saw the glory of the God of Israel coming from the east. His voice was like the roar of many waters, and the earth shone with His glory.
- Luke 3:7
  Then John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
- Matthew 3:5–6
  People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region around the Jordan.
- 1 Samuel 9:4
  So Saul passed through the hill country of Ephraim and then through the land of Shalishah, but did not find the donkeys. He and the servant went through the region of Shaalim, but they…

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

What the record shows

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Mark

What the record shows

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Mark