orthjbc Mark:1:1-8
orthjbc@Mark:1:1 @ [The] beginning of the Besuras HaGeulah (note:)the Good News of Redemption(:note) of Yehoshua, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach [the] Ben HaElohim. YOCHANAN OF THE TEVILAH OF TESHUVA COMES AS MOSHIACH'S MAGGID IN THE MIDBAR MT. strkjv@3:1-12; MK strkjv@1:2-8; LK strkjv@3:3-18
orthjbc@Mark:1:2 @ Just as it has been written in Yeshayah HaNavi, HINNENI SHOLEIACH MALACHI (note:)"Behold, I send my messenger"(:note) before your face, UPINNAH DERECH LEFANAI "and he will prepare the way before me," [SHEMOT strkjv@23:20; MALACHI strkjv@3:1], he will prepare your way.
orthjbc@Mark:1:3 @ KOL KOREY BAMIDBAR (note:)"A voice of one shouting in the wilderness," TARGUM HASHIVIM YESHAYAH strkjv@40:3(:note): `Prepare the Derech Hashem the way of the L-rd. Make his paths yashar straight!'"
orthjbc@Mark:1:4 @ Yochanan came with a mikveh mayim in the midbar (note:)wilderness(:note), preaching a tevilah of teshuva for the selichat avon forgiveness/pardon of sins.
orthjbc@Mark:1:5 @ And all Yehudah and all Yerushalayim were going out to him, and they were submitted to a tevilah using the Yarden River as a mikveh mayim, making vidduy (note:)confession(:note) [to Hashem] of their averos sins.
orthjbc@Mark:1:6 @ And Yochanan had camel-hair clothing and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was arbe (note:)locusts(:note) and devash wild honey. [Melachim Bais strkjv@1:8; Vayikra strkjv@11:22]
orthjbc@Mark:1:7 @ And he was preaching, crying out as a maggid (note:)preacher(:note) [for the Moshiach], saying, "Hu Habah He who Comes, i.e. Moshiach after me is more powerful than me. I am not worthy to stoop down and remove his sandals.
orthjbc@Mark:1:8 @ I give you a tevilah in a mikveh mayim, but he (note:)Moshiach(:note) will give you a tevilah in the Ruach Hakodesh." [Yeshayah strkjv@44:3; Yoel strkjv@2:28] MOSHIACH'S TEVILAH IN THE MIKVEH MAYIM OF THE YARDEN RIVER MT.3:13-17; MK strkjv@1:9-11; LK strkjv@3:21-23