The Gospel accordinmg to Mark begins not with the birth of Jesus Christ, but he begins with the Son of God. The expression of “The Son of God” means Jesus is God. This is how the Jews understood it.(John 10:33)So the Gospel begins with the public mininstry of the Lord Jesus Christ. This doesn’t mean however that His birth is not important. For it was necessary for Him to become flesh, to be born in human body to make propitiation of our sins. Paul gives the definition of the gospel as of the death, burial and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.(2 Cor. 15:3-4)We get eternal life by believing that Jesus Christ is the Son of God(John 20:31)The beginning of the Gospel tells a lot of what the Gospel is all about.

Commentary by Jayant Christian
Posted on: 3/25/2009 15:50 pm

1)Genesis begins with “In the beginning God created..”
The Gospel of John begins with “In the beginning was the Word…”
The Gospel of Mark begins with “The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ.”
2)Matthew & Luke give the genealogies of Jesus Christ.Mark does not give any genealogy of Jesus Christ.
3)Matthew 1:1 says “Jesus Christ,the son of David…”.
Luke 3:23 says “Jesus…being (as supposed)the son of Joseph..”.
Matthew presents Jesus as king.Luke presents Jesus as man.John presents Jesus as God.
Mark presents Jesus Christ as the suffering servant in his gospel.In the opening verse he mentioned Jesus Christ as the Son of God.Jesus Christ is the Son of God who came as man to lay down His life for the sins of the people of the world.Mark 10:43;John 1:29.
4)Jesus is the earthly name.(Matthew 1:21;Luke 1:31).Joshua is the O.T.
Hebrew name for Jesus.it means “Jehovah is salvation”.
Messiah is the Hebrew word for Christ.Christos(Kristos)is the Greek word.It means “The anointed” or “Anointed one”.Prophets,priests and kings were
anointed.Jesus Christ has fulfilled all the three roles of Prophet,Priest and King.
5)The gospel of Jesus Christ is the message of salvation.it is the Good News.Salvation was made possible by the atonement sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
His sacrifice was final and perfect.It is efficacious and effective in obtaining the forgiveness of sins.Read Heb.10:18.
One of the striking features of the Mark’s gospel is that in that gospel only we find the following statement at the end:
“So then after the Lord had spoken unto them,he was received up into heaven,and sat down on the right hand of God.” Mark 16:19.
Jesus Christ has completed the sacrificial part of the high Priestly ministry by entering into heaven by His blood(Heb.9:11,12,24) and sat down on the right hand of God.Heb.1:3,13;8:1;10:12;12:2)

Commentary by Alex
Posted on: 2/14/2009 02:30 am