Expository Thoughts on the Gospels – St. Mark

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The introduction of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As it is transcribed in Isaiah the diviner, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,'” John came out, baptizing in the back woods and declaring a baptism of penitence for the reconciliation of sins. And every people of Judea and Jerusalem were approaching him and were being blessed by him in the Jordan river, admitting their faults. John was already garbed with camel’s hair and wore a leather belt encircling his waist and consumed locusts and wild honey. And he sermonized, stating, “After me comes he who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie.”

The Gospel of Mark, which we now commence, is in many matters contrasting the other three Gospels. It speaks us nothing of the nativity and childhood of the Son of God. It includes reasonably a little of His proverbs and sermons. Of all the four enthused narrations of Jesus Christ’s worldly ministry, this is to date the most concise. John Charles Ryle was the first Anglican bishop of Liverpool. He was the oldest son of John Ryle, private investor, of Park House, Macclesfield, M.P. for Macclesfield, and Susanna, daughter of Charles Hurt of Wirksworth, Derbyshire. He was born in Macclesfieldon.

He studied at Eton and the University of Oxford, where his profession was oddly eminent. He was Fell exhibitioner at Christ Church, from which institution he entered. He was Craven academic, earned a degree in B.A., having been situated in the first class in literæ humaniores, and progressed a degree in M.A.. He was created D.D. by diploma on 4 May 1880.
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