From f2c25d5b3c25f43b7954c971463ec5f8663d224b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Susan Quigley Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 20:53:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 3389 Mrk 1 Intro "The Kingdom of God is near" --- mrk/01/intro.md | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mrk/01/intro.md b/mrk/01/intro.md index 755f09d315..fda4cf555a 100644 --- a/mrk/01/intro.md +++ b/mrk/01/intro.md @@ -9,9 +9,14 @@ Some translations set each line of poetry farther to the right than the rest of ##### "You can make me clean" Leprosy was a disease of the skin that made a person unclean and unable to properly worship God. Jesus is capable of making people physically "clean" or healthy as well as spiritually "clean" or right with God. (See: [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/clean]]) -##### "The kingdom of God is near" +##### Prophecy +Mark begins this book about Jesus Christ with the words that the prophet Isaiah wrote long before that time. Then he tells how John the Baptist and Jesus Christ fulfilled that prophecy. -Scholars debate whether the "kingdom of God" was present at the time of Jesus or is something that would come later. English translations frequently use the phrase "at hand," but this can create difficulty for translators. Other versions use the phase "is coming" or "has come near." +##### Repentance +Repent means stop sinning. John the Baptist taught people to repent so that God would forgive their sins. Jesus taught people to repent and to believe the good news about the kingdom of God. + +##### The work of Jesus +Jesus went around preaching the good news of God, casting demons out of people, and healing people who were sick. ## Links: