Mark 1:1-8
Passage ‘The beginning of the good news of Jesus the Anointed, the Son of God. As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, “Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way,the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight.’” In …
Mark Chapter 1 – Intro Resources
Welcome to the new year of daily Gospel readings for 2022. We begin with the Gospel of Mark. Matthew, Luke, and John will follow. Each week there will be one or two chapters of Gospels readings. This allows for a slow, easy-paced, and in-depth reading of each of the Gospels. The plan breaks each chapter down as whole-reading, then smaller daily readings. However, the length of readings could easily allow for a full reading each day of every chapter or two of the gospels per week. We hope you enjoy this process, grow closer to Jesus, and are shaped by His life through the readings.
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Jeremiah Chapter 51
❖ Jeremiah 51:1 — “…the heart of the one rising [against] me…” There is a fascinating and strange element in this verse. In rabbinic literature, it is called an atbash (אתבש). An atbash is a type of code where the first letter of the alphabet is switched with the last, the second with the second …
Jeremiah Chapter 36
36:1 In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah — This would have been around 605 BCE, one year after Nebuchadnezzar’s defeat of Pharaoh Neco II at Carchemish. The power had shifted from Egypt to Babylon. In the next year (the year the scroll in this chapter was read to Jehoiakim), Nebuchadnezzar subdued all of the surrounding regions and demand tribute. The only city to refuse was Ashkelon, which was then completely destroyed by the Babylonian armies.
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35:1 Jehoiakim — This prophecy is a break in the series concerning Zedekiah in the previous chapters. Jehoiakim was Zedekiah’s brother and ruled earlier than him. He was the second of Josiah’s sons to be king over Judah. Jehoiakim was appointed by Pharaoh Neco II after Joiakim’s brother, Yehoaḥaz. Yehoahaz was deposed by the Pharaoh after …
Jeremiah Chapter 34
34:18 …I will make them like the calf that they cut in two and passed between its parts…(Jeremiah 34:18 ESV) This likely refers to the process during certain covenants where animals were cut into pieces and participants walked between them as a sign of ‘this type of thing will happen to you if you break the covenant’. …
Jeremiah Chapter 33
33:5 — Chaldeans, In Hebrew, here and elsewhere, this is Kasedim (כַּשְׂדִּים). These are the Babylonians. The word Chaldean in English translations actually derives from the Greek translations of scripture, where Khaldaía (Χαλδαία) is used. Both Kasedim and Khaldaía may be tied to the Akkadian terms used for the southern areas of Mesopotamia (Kashdu and Kaldu). The Aramic translations have Kaldo.
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