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In this commentary, Ironside remains thoughtfully attuned to the active and dynamic pace of the Gospel of Mark, while explaining the nature of Christ as the servant and as the Son of Man. His chapter-by-chapter analysis includes timely words for his original audience and for contemporary readers.

whom I well pleased.” He who had been baptized as identifying Himself with confessed sinners was thus declared to be Himself the sinless One. We have no details here of the temptation, or testing, of Jehovah’s Servant. We are told only that immediately (note the word, for as mentioned in the Introduction it will be found often in this Gospel) the Spirit driveth Him into the wilderness for forty days, where He was tempted of the devil, and was with the wild beasts. When Satan left Him angels came
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