A Brighter Day Begins with His Word.

Bengel, Johann Albrecht, 1687-1752 • SECTION 479

Iii. The Gospel,

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1. The two disciples get ready

the passover, . . . 12—10

2. At evening time, the supper, 17, 18 ; 22, 23

3. After the hymn, He foretells that the disciples would be of fended at Him, and Peter deny

Him, . . . 20-31

4. In Gethsemane,

a. Jesus prays; rouses the

sleeping disciples, . . 32-42

[3. Is betrayed; taken; deserted

by His disciples, . . 43—52

5. In the hall of the high-priest,

«. Is condemned to death, . 53—05

13. Is denied by Peter, . 00-72 /. The sixth day of the week. His acts, «. In the Pretorium of the

Governor, xv. 1, 2 ; 0, 7 ; 10-20

(3. On the way to crucifixion, 21

7. In Golgotha, . 22

1. His drink, . 23

2. The cross itself, and part ing of His garments, 24, 25

3. The inscription, 20

4. The tAvo malefactors, 27, 28

5. The railings, . 29-32 0. The darkness for three

hours ; the loud cry of Jesus ; the scoff of the by-

a d standers ; the drink ; the

death ; the rending of the veil, . . Ch. xv. 33-38

7. The centurion's remark;

the women looking on, . 39—41

d. The evening time, the burial, 42-47

g. After the Sabbath, the resurrec tion of our Lord, announced, a. By the angel, . . ;xvi. 1—8

8. By Himself,

1. To Mary Magdalene, . 9-11

2. To two men going into the

country, . . . 12, 13

3. To the eleven as they sat

at meat, ... 14

1. Committed by our Lord, after His resurrection, to the apostles, . 15-18

2. And confirmed after His ascension, 19, 20

First, in the very term the beginning, the new economy is opened out, ver. 15. On this account the time specified in Luke iii. 1, is marked as an epoch of by far the greatest im portance. The title, as we may see in the opening of Malachi, is KK>D, " The burden ;" but now in the present case it is, The beginning of the Gospel. Moreover, this title has in it some what of an abbreviated mode of expression : for the beginning of the Gospel applies to [is in] John the Baptist ; the Gospel, to the whole book. However, Mark terms it the beginning, not of his own book, but of the Gospel facts themselves, as appears by comparing ver. 2, as Hosea ch. i. 2 \_The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea]. The commencement of this book of Mark is in elegant accordance with that commence ment ; and at the same time answers to the prophetical clause, quoted from the close of the Old Testament, written by Malachi [Mark i. 2] : just as the close of the second book of Chronicles answers to the beginning of Ezra. The proper scope of this Evangelist, as he himself professes in such a title as he employs, is to describe the originating sources [commencements], history,

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