Mark 1:2-5

As it is written in Isaiah the prophet,

“Behold, I send my messenger before your face,

who will prepare your way,

the voice of one crying in the wilderness:

‘Prepare the way of the Lord,

make his paths straight,'”

John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

Mark and the other three gospel-writers all remember well the magnetic attraction of this man John the Baptizer, who lived deep in the Jordan Valley far from the capital.

He said to the crowds, “Repent.” And because they repented, he baptized them, dipping them in the waters of the river.

Mark 1:6

Now John was clothed with camel’s hair and wore a leather belt round his waist and ate locusts and wild honey.

Like Chori and Gongmo, and like the yogi Milarepa, John lived rough on the steppe.

The locusts that he ate were one of the few kinds of insect declared clean by the religious laws. What else was there to eat?

His clothing was the same as that of Elijah, one of the most famous prophets of earlier times. who for a while had to hide in the same valley  when hunted by the government.

For these reasons too people came to see John.

Mark 1:7-8

And he preached, saying, “After me comes he who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”

‘Repent’, said John.

But it was more than this that he preached. ‘The Lord, who is coming after me, is greater than I. I am not good enough even to kneel as a slave before Him. When you repent, He will not just dip you in the water as a sign of clearing away sin; He will pour God’s Holy Spirit into you, so that you actually have power for changing into new persons.’

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

This is the heading that John Mark himself used for his history book. (He was a different man from the Gospel-Writer John)

Mark has not only written his own clear memories, but the memories of other disciples also. Mark’s story is short; his style is quick and immediate.

[Out of the two other gospel stories, Luke’s is written for the thinking person. He was a doctor; he carefully examined all that happened, and decided to write a well-ordered account.

The fourth writer, Matthew, before following Yeshu was probably a tax official of the Roman rulers. He wrote for Jewish people; he often recollects what was spoken by the prophets and now is fulfilled. How excited the people would have been if his good news had been plastered up on a wall in Jerusalem! ‘Look! At last the Saviour has come!’]

INTRODUCTION

 As for the scripture-of-purity (distinguishing ‘scripture’ from the same word meaning ‘Buddha teachings’) of Yeshu religion, it is the YaWe-God-given-to-all-men word of purity. The two principal sections of the scripture-of-purity, it is these: the one called the old contract, the other the new contract. Within the new contract there are four life-stories of Teacher Yeshu. These are the gospel written by Matthew; that written by Mark; Luke’s gospel; and John’s. Of these the one written by Mark is the shortest. However for easy reading YaWe-God’s path of salvation is clearly taught. This Mark, through the instrument of the Holy Spirit for being a servant of representation of Teacher Yeshu, wrote his gospel about 60AD. At the time of first writing he wrote in Greek, and after that it was changed into various languages. The whole pure Christian scripture has been translated into various languages.

 When you read this good news written by Mark, may YaWe God bless you.

                                                                                                                        From the translators.

“According to Mark”,

is the title given in the Bible for the story of Yeshu Mashiga written by the man called Mark.

It has been divided into 16 chapters, which are in turn divided into verses.

The first verse of Chapter 1 we shall indicate like this, Mark 1:1.

You, respected reader, may turn to any chapter and verse as you choose; and you may also turn to Yeshu’s story as told by other gospel-writers. See www.gsungrab.org.Bible books.

But if you start here, read on for the heading that Mark himself gave to the story. Notice that he did not give his own name.

Why was this? It was not safe; it was because he might be arrested.