The Victory according to Mark: An Exposition of the Second Gospel (Biblia.com)

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Mark’s Gospel is sometimes assumed to be the least interesting or helpful gospel—it is the shortest and speaks in a plain and direct style. Mark Horne helps us better appreciate this Gospel’s goals by highlighting features not immediately apparent to the modern eye. Horne uses its Old Testament and first-century context to point out the typological roles that Jesus, John, and the disciples...

Malachi 3:1—Behold, I am going to send My angel, and he will clear the way before My face. Mark 1:2—Behold, I send My angel before Your face, who will prepare Your way. Now some of the differences could simply be the result of translating from Hebrew to Greek. However, the Malachi prophecy has God saying that His angel will prepare the way for himself. Mark has God sending an angel to prepare the way for someone else. Why is Mark changing the passage? I would suggest4 that Mark is intentionally

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