Introduction Mk 1:1 - 1-8

1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ. 2 As it has been written in Isaiah the prophet: Behold I send the messenger of me before (the) face of thee, who will prepare the way of thee; 3 a voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way of (the) Lord, straight make the paths of him, 4 came John the (one) baptizing in the desert proclaiming a baptism of repentance of forgiveness of sins. 5 And went out to him all the Judaean country and the Jerusalemites all, and were baptized by him in the Jordan river confessing the sins of them. 6 And was John having been clothed (in) hairs of a camel and girdle a leathern round the loin(s) of him and eating locusts and honey wild. 7 And he proclaimed saying: Comes the (one) stronger of me after me, of whom I am not competent stooping to loosen the thong of the sandals of him. 8 I baptized you in water, but he will baptize you Spirit in (the) Holy.

(Text is the literal translation from the RSV Interlinear Greek-English New Testament, 1988)

Section A

LAW IS BASED UPON AUTHORITY

1:9 - 3:35

Paragraph "hooks" are locations of Jesus

1. (Authority is) Based on God's will

1:9-12

new base my beloved son

3:20-35

new base my brother and sister and mother

1:9 And it came to pass in those days came Jesus from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized in the Jordan by John. 10And immediately going up out of the water he saw being rent the heavens and the Spirit as a dove coming down to him: 11 and a voice there was out of the heavens: Thou art the Son of me the beloved , in thee I was well pleased.

3:20 And he comes into a house; and comes together again the crowd, so as not to be able them not bread to eat. 21 And hearing the (ones) (=his relations) with him went forth to seize him; for they said He is beside himself. 22 And the scribes from Jerusalem coming down said Beelzebub he has and By the ruler of the demons he expels the demons. 23 And calling to (him) them in parables he said to them: How can Satan Satan to expel? 24 And if a kingdom against itself be divided, cannot stand kingdom that; 25 and if a house against itself be divided, will not be able house that to stand. 26 And if Satan stood up against himself and was divided he cannot to stand but an end has. 27 But cannot not (any) one into the house of the strong man entering the goods of him to plunder, unless first the strong man he bind, and then the house of him he will plunder. 28 Truly I tell you that all will be forgiven to the sons of men the sins and the blasphemies, whatever they may blaspheme; 29 but whoever blasphemes against the Spirit Holy, has not forgiveness unto the age, but liable is of an eternal sin. 30 Because they said: spirit an unclean he has. 31 And come the mother of him and the brothers of him, and outside standing sent to him calling him. 32 And sat round him a crowd, and they say to him: Behold the mother of thee and the brothers of thee and the sisters of thee outside seek thee. 33 And answering them he says: Who is the mother of me and the brothers? 34 And looking round (at) the (ones) round him in a circle sitting he says: Behold the mother of me and the brothers of me. 35 Whoever does the will of God, this one brother of me and sister and mother is.