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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

These verbal parallels in the LXX are sufficient to show, (1) that if Mark had meant to say ‘the Spirit descended upon him’ the preposition epi would have been used (as Mt. 3:16 and Lk. 3:22 have it), and (2) that katabainon eis means ‘descending into’ unless Marcan usage or the context clearly forbids this meaning. So far as Marcan usage is concerned it is to be noticed that the preposition eis follows verbs of motion with ‘house’ (2:11, 3:20, 5:19), ‘mountain’ (3:13, 9:2, 13:14, 14:26), ‘region’ (7:24,
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