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Mark 1:2

Mark.1.2

as it is written in Isaiah the prophet: “I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way”—

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Mark 1:2 quotes Malachi 3:1
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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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- 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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