Mark 1:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

went out. kept going out. Imperf. Tense. unto. Greek. pros. App-104.

all. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of the Whole), App-6, for all parts.

the land. country, or territory. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Subject), App-6, for the inhabitants.

of. by. Greek. hupo. App-104.

the river of Jordan. Occ, only in Mark.

confessing. See Matthew 3:6.

their. their own.

Mark 1:5

5 And there went out unto him all the land of Judaea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.