Mark 1:2
As it has been written in the Prophets: “Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, || Who will prepare Your way before You.
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
1A beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, Son of God.
3A voice of one calling in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the LORD, || Make His paths straight.”
Cross References
Malachi 3:1“Behold, I am sending My messenger, || And he has prepared a way before Me, || And suddenly the Lord whom you are seeking comes into His temple, || Even the Messenger of the Covenant, || Whom you are desiring, || Behold, He is coming,” said YHWH of Hosts.
Matthew 3:1And in those days John the Immerser comes, proclaiming in the wilderness of Judea,
Matthew 26:24the Son of Man indeed goes, as it has been written concerning Him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is delivered up! It were good for him if that man had not been born.”
Luke 1:15for he will be great before the LORD, and wine and strong drink he may not drink, and he will be full of the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb;
Luke 1:76And you, child, || Prophet of the Highest will you be called; For you will go before the face of the LORD, || To prepare His ways.
Luke 7:27this is he concerning whom it has been written: Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, who will prepare Your way before You;
Matthew Henry on Mark 1:2-9
Mark We have heard the evidence given in by the first witness to the doctrine and miracles of our Lord Jesus; and now here is another witness produced, who calls for our attention. The second living creature saith, Come, and see, Rev. vi. 3 . Now let us enquire a little, I. Concerning this witness. His name is Mark. Marcus was a Roman name, and a very common one, and yet we have no reason to think, but that he was by birth a Jew; but as Saul, when he went among the nations, took the Roman name of Paul, so he of… Read the whole commentary →