Mark quotes from two prophets Malachi and Isaiah
Malachi 3:1 "Behold, I send My messenger, And he will prepare the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, Will suddenly come to His temple, Even the Messenger of the covenant, In whom you delight. Behold, He is coming," Says the LORD of hosts.
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Isaiah 40:3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness: "Prepare the way of the LORD; Make straight in the desert A highway for our God.
A:The Gospel of Mark opens with the verse, "The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God." however, there is reason to believe that this verse was not in the earliest copies of Mark.
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Because Mark's gospel is the word of God which is truth and his gospel states: Mark 1.1. The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;
A:The closest to this would be Mark's Gospel, beginning (KJV), "The beginning of the gospel [good news] of Jesus Christ, the Son of God." However, scholars suspect that the words "the Son of God" were not in the original version of this gospel.
Mark quotes Isaiah in chapter 1 verses 2 - 3: 1.) The beginning of the good news about Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God, 2.) as it is written in Isaiah the prophet: "I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way" 3.)"a voice of one calling in the wilderness, 'Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.''
A:The first verse of Mark's Gospel: "The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God." The words 'Son of God' are not present in all early manuscripts and many New Testament scholars believe they were not original to the gospel. This is consistent with the style of the gospel, which otherwise only has outsiders such as demons, centurions and the High Priest refer to Jesus as the Son of God, perhaps to avoid charges of blasphemy.
You can find summaries of the gospels in a "New Testament Survey" or a "Bible Dictionary". Some Bibles have a summary at the beginning of each book. Or a commentary on the gospel of Mark. If you search online for "a summary of the gospel of Mark" you will find a website called Bible Hub
Put a quotation mark at the beginning of the quote and at the end of the quote. You do not need to put quotation marks around each sentence within that quote.
He wrote the second, the Gospel of Mark.
Isaiah 56:7 (Mark 11:17)
Mark's Gospel is considered a biography of Jesus Christ. It was written by John Mark, who compiled the teachings and events of Jesus' life based on his own experiences and the accounts of others.
The original quote is from the Gospel of St. Mark: "If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand." It was borrowed by Abraham Lincoln.