Mark 1:2

As it is written in the prophets,.... Malachi and Isaiah; for passages out of both follow; though the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Persic versions read, "as it is written in the prophet Isaias"; and so…

As it is written in the prophets - Mark mentions “prophets” here without specifying which. The places are found in Mal 3:1, and in Isa 41:3. See the notes at Mat 3:3.

As it is written in the prophets - Rather, As it is written by Isaiah the prophet. I think this reading should be adopted, instead of that in the common text. It is the reading of the Codex Bezae,…

We may observe here,

I. What the New Testament is - the divine testament, to which we adhere above all that is human; the new testament, which we advance above that which was old. It is the gospel of…

in the prophets The citation is from two prophets, (1) Mal 3:1, (2) Isa 40:3. Some would read here in Isaiah the Prophet according to certain MSS. Observe that St Mark in his own narrative quotes the…