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The messenger sent ahead
Malachi promised that God would send a messenger to prepare the way before Him. Mark's first sentence about John the Baptist quotes that promise, and Jesus applies it to John as well.
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A New Testament passage quotes an earlier passage.
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New TestamentMark 1:2Open this recordRead the earlier witness
“I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come,” says the Lord Almighty. Read the later witness
as it is written in Isaiah the prophet: “I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way”— Why FaithGraph draws this line
Mark 1:2 quotes Malachi 3:1.
Mark opens with Malachi's promise of a messenger sent ahead to prepare the way, joined to Isaiah's voice in the next verse.
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Other responsible views
- Attribution to Isaiah. Mark introduces the combined quotation as written in Isaiah the prophet. Most readers take this as naming the better known of two joined sources, a common practice; the Malachi wording is not in doubt.
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