Mark 1:4
John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.
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Methodist theologian, 1762–1832
Adam Clarke
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…
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…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
the wilderness i. e. the dry and unpeopled region extending from the gates of Hebron to the shores of the Dead Sea. "It is a dreary waste of rocky valleys; in some parts stern and terrible, the rocks…
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