Jesus’ journey:
His daily life and work for three years
Welcome to a 49 day journey starting today. Jesus said “Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart and you will find rest for your souls”
Day 1: Mark 1:1-8 John the Baptist prepares the way
The gospel is no ordinary story.
The Old Testament prophets Malachi and Isaiah pictured the coming of John the Baptist 400-700 years before it happened. (Malachi 3:1 and Isaiah 40:3) There are several hundred Old Testament prophecies about Jesus which picture his birth place, the way he died and many of the things you will read about in this gospel. All this shows that his life was planned for a purpose.
John the Baptist finally came to announce his arrival.
What was John’s important message?
How will you prepare yourself to meet with Jesus as you read this gospel over the coming weeks?
Is there anything God wants you to sort out?
(Luke 3:10-14)
Mark is very brief and the other gospels often add a lot more detail to some of the stories such as this one. This is probably because Mark was the first to write a gospel. We believe he used information that Peter (the leading disciple of Jesus) passed on. Peter was very much an action guy as you will find out later. Hence the action style of this gospel.
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