Mark 1:1 - The Message1-3 The good news of Jesus Christ—the Message!—begins here, following to the letter the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. Watch closely: I’m sending my preacher ahead of you; He’ll make the road smooth for you. Thunder in the desert! Prepare for God’s arrival! Make the road smooth and straight! Ver CapítuloMás versionesKing James Version (Oxford) 17691 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God; Ver CapítuloAmplified Bible - Classic Edition1 THE BEGINNING [of the facts] of the good news (the Gospel) of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Ver CapítuloAmerican Standard Version (1901)1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Ver CapítuloCommon English Bible1 The beginning of the good news about Jesus Christ, God’s Son, Ver CapítuloCatholic Public Domain Version1 The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Ver Capítulo |
God went for the jugular when he sent his own Son. He didn’t deal with the problem as something remote and unimportant. In his Son, Jesus, he personally took on the human condition, entered the disordered mess of struggling humanity in order to set it right once and for all. The law code, weakened as it always was by fractured human nature, could never have done that. The law always ended up being used as a Band-Aid on sin instead of a deep healing of it. And now what the law code asked for but we couldn’t deliver is accomplished as we, instead of redoubling our own efforts, simply embrace what the Spirit is doing in us.
“This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person’s failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him.