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THE
HOLY GHOSPEL
OF
JESUS CHRIST
ACCORDING TO MARKE.

 

Chap. I.

 

The First part of the Ghospel: of the preparation to Christs manifestation.

John (the Eremite of whom the Prophets) preaching penance, and living himself accordingly, baptizeth the people to prepare them to Christ, 7. telling them, that it is not his, but Christs Baptisme, in which they shal receave the Holy Ghost. 9. Jesus there is manifested from Heaven: 12. and by and by he also goeth into the wildernes. 14. Beginning in Galilee, 16. after that he hath called foure Disciples, 21. he preacheth first in Capharnaum, confirming his doctrine with beneficial Miracles, to the great admiration of al: 35. then also (but first retiring into the wildernes) in al the rest of Galilee, with like miracles.

 

THE beginning of the Ghospel of Jesus Christ the Sonne of God. ²As it is written in Esay the Prophet: Mal. 3, 1.
Esa. 40, 3.(Behold I send mine Angel before thy face, who shal prepare thy way before thee.) ³A voice of one crying in the desert, Prepare ye the way of our Lord, make straight his pathes. Mat. 3, 1.
Luc. 3, 4.
Jo. 1, 25.⁴ * John was in the desert baptizing, and preaching the Baptisme of pennance ^[1] unto remission of sinnes. ⁵And there went forth to him al the countrie of Jewrie, and al they of Hierusalem, and were baptized of him in the river of Jordan, ″ confessing ″ their sinnes. ⁶And John was ″ clothed with camels haire, and a girdle of a skinne about his loines: and he did eate locustes and wild honie. ⁷And he preached, saying: There commeth a stronger then I after me: whose latchet of his shoes I am not worthie stouping downe to loose. ⁸I have baptized you ″ with water; but he shal baptize you with the Holy Ghost.

⁹And it came to passe, in those daies came Jesus from Nazareth of Galilee; and was ″ baptized of John in Jordan. ¹⁰And forthwith comming up out of the water, he saw the Heavens opened, and ″ the Spirit as a dove descending, and remaining on him. ¹¹And a voice was made

1. Johns Baptisme put them in hope of only remission of sinnes as a preparative to Christes Sacrament by which sinnes were indeed to be remitted. Aug. li. 5. de Bapt. c. 10.