Setting the Scene
Taken from Mark The People's Bible Commentary
author: Dick France
contributor: BRF - Dick France
Description
SETTING the SCENE
‘The wilderness’, mentioned four times in verses 1–13 and never again in Mark’s Gospel, is a pointer to the different focus in these introductory paragraphs. They are set not among human society in Galilee or Judea, but in the uninhabited land around the Jordan. Before the story proper begins, Mark as it were takes us aside into a lonely place to brief us on what it will all be about.
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