2nd Sunday of Advent (Year B) - Mark 1: 1-8

Daily Gospel Exegesis

Logical Bible Study

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 9 December 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Mark 1: 1-8 - 'A voice cries in the wilderness: prepare a way for the Lord.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 422 (in 'The Good News: God has sent his Son') - 'But when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.' This is 'the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God': God has visited his people. He has fulfilled the promise he made to Abraham and his descendants. He acted far beyond all expectation - he has sent his own 'beloved Son'.

- 515 (in 'Christ's whole life is a ministry') - The Gospels were written by men who were among the first to have the faith and wanted to share it with others. Having known in faith who Jesus is, they could see and make others see the traces of his mystery in all his earthly life. From the swaddling clothes of his birth to the vinegar of his Passion and the shroud of his Resurrection, everything in Jesus' life was a sign of his mystery. His deeds, miracles and words all revealed that "in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily." His humanity appeared as "sacrament", that is, the sign and instrument, of his divinity and of the salvation he brings: what was visible in his earthly life leads to the invisible mystery of his divine sonship and redemptive mission.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome back to Logical Bible Study, where we go through an exegesis of today's gospel reading and mass.
0:17.6	So we're helping you understand the literal sense of the Gospels. We're really
0:22.0	diving into what the words mean, what the author is trying to convey. So it's a ministry that's all
0:27.3	about helping Catholics understand their Bibles better. Today we're starting right at the start
0:32.8	of the Gospel of Mark. So we're looking at Mark chapter 1 verses 1 to 8. So here's the reading. We'll read it out,
0:39.7	and then we'll go through it verse by verse. And I think you'll find that there's more going on in
0:43.6	this text than what might be obvious at first. So Mark chapter 1 versus 1 to 8.
0:51.4	The beginning of the good news about Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
0:56.5	It is written in the book of the prophet Isaiah.
0:59.8	Look, I am going to send my messenger before you.
1:03.6	He will prepare your way.
1:06.4	A voice cries in the wilderness.
1:08.3	Prepare away for the Lord.
1:10.0	Make his paths straight.
1:12.8	And so it was that John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, proclaiming a baptism of repentance
1:17.9	for the forgiveness of sins. All Judea and all the people of Jerusalem made their way to him,
1:24.7	and as they were baptized by him in the River Jordan, they confessed their sins.
1:30.3	John wore a garment of camel skin, and he lived on locusts and wild honey.
1:36.3	In the course of his preaching, he said,
1:39.3	Someone is following me, someone who is more powerful than I am,
1:43.3	and I am not fit to kneel down and
1:46.1	undo the strap of his sandals. I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the
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