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• must always be remembered that the wineskins here spoken of were not bottles of glass or of earthenware, but were containers made of leather. Unless this is kept in view, the parable is unintelligible to an English mind. A similar remark applies to David’s words, Though I have become like a wineskin in the smoke (Psalm 119:83). 3 The concluding wor...
• Mark 1:1-8 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As it is written in Isaiah the prophet: “Behold, I send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way; the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make ready the way of the Lord, make His paths straight.’” John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness preaching a baptism o...
• These words, the Son of God, conveyed far more to Jewish minds than they do to ours. They were nothing less than an assertion of our Lord’s divinity. They were a declaration that Jesus was Himself very God and equal with God (John 5:18).
• The divinity of Christ is the citadel and preservation of Christianity.
• We should always read the Old Testament with a desire to find something in it about Jesus Christ.