Mark 1 in the Unitarian Standard Version Bible

 

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1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, [Son of God].

2 Even as it is written in Isaiah the prophet,
Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way.
3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ye ready the way of Jehovah(a), Make his paths straight;

4 John came, who baptized in the wilderness and preached the baptism of repentance unto remission of sins. 5 And there went out unto him all the country of Judaea, and all they of Jerusalem; And they were baptized of him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. 6  And John was clothed with camel`s hair, and [had] a leather girdle about his loins, and did eat locusts and wild honey. 7 And he preached, saying, There cometh after me he that is mightier than I, the strap of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose. 8 I baptized you in water; But he shall baptize you in holy spirit(b).

9 And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized in the Jordan by John. 10 And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens rent asunder, and the spirit as a dove descending into him: 11 And a voice came out of the heavens, Thou art my beloved Son(c), in thee I am well pleased.

12 And straightway the spirit driveth(d) him forth into the wilderness. 13 And he was in the wilderness forty days(e) tempted of Satan; And he was with the wild beasts; And the angels ministered unto him.

14 Now after John was delivered up, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, 15 and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe in the gospel.

16 And passing along by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon(f) and Andrew the brother of Simon casting into the sea; for they were fishers. 17 And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men. 18 And straightway they left the nets, and followed him. 19 And going on a little further, he saw James the [son] of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the boat mending the nets. 20 And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him.

21 And they go into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue and taught. 22 And they were astonished at his teaching: For he taught them as having authority, and not as the scribes. 23 And straightway there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, 24 saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus thou Nazarene? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God. 25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. 26 And the unclean spirit, tearing him and calling with a loud voice, came out of him. 27 And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What is this? a new teaching! with authority he commandeth even the unclean spirits, and they obey him. 28 And the report of him went out straightway everywhere into all the region of Galilee round about.

29 And straightway, when they were come out of the synagogue, they came into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. 30 Now Simon`s wife`s mother lay sick of a fever; and straightway they tell him of her: 31 and he came and took her by the hand, and raised her up; and the fever left her, and she ministered unto them. 32 And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were sick, and them that were possessed with demons. 33 And all the city was gathered together at the door.

34 And he healed many that were sick with divers diseases, and cast out many demons; and he suffered not the demons to speak, because they knew him. 35 And in the morning, a great while before day, he rose up and went out, and departed into a desert place, and there prayed. 36 And Simon and they that were with him followed after him; 37 and they found him, and say unto him, All are seeking thee. 38 And he saith unto them, Let us go elsewhere into the next towns, that I may preach there also; for to this end came I forth. 39 And he went into their synagogues throughout all Galilee, preaching and casting out demons.

40 And there cometh to him a leper, beseeching him, and kneeling down, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. 41 And being moved with compassion, he stretched forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou made clean.
42 And straightway the leprosy departed from him, and he was made clean. 43 And he strictly charged him, and straightway sent him out, 44 and saith unto him, See thou say nothing to any man: but go show thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing the things which Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them. 45 But he went out, and began to publish it much, and to spread abroad the matter, insomuch that Jesus(g) could no more openly enter into a city, but was without at [the] desert places: and they came to him from every quarter.

Footnotes

(a) From Isaiah 40:3 - "The voice of one that crieth, Prepare ye in the wilderness the way of Jehovah; make level in the desert a highway for our God." John Nelson Darby in the preface of his Bible includes Mark 1:3 as a Scripture in the New Testament that has "the sense of Jehovah." "Nothing can be more erroneous, in most cases, than to draw the conclusion, that because the Scripture asserts some particular thing to have been done by God, therefore he did it immediately, and no instruments were employed by him. How much difficulty and contradiction, as well in theology as in interpretation, has such a mode of reasoning produced! In interpreting the principles of human laws, we say, Qui facit per alium, facit per se. [“ He who does any thing by another, does it by himself.”] Does not common sense approve of this, as applied to the language of the Scriptures? Nothing can be more evident than that the sacred writers have expressed themselves in a manner which recognises this principle. — PROFESSOR STUART: Excur. on Heb. ii. 2. [These observations will justly apply to the passage in question. God came into the world, by the agency of his Son Jesus Christ; and therefore did John the Baptist prepare the way of Jehovah, by preparing the way of the Messiah.]"JW
(b) Most Bibles have "the Holy Spirit." The Greek text does not have the definite article THE here, and the Greek text has no capitalization. Vine's Dictionary states that the word SPIRIT "primarily denotes the wind" (akin to pneo, 'to breathe, blow'); also 'breath;' then, especially 'the spirit,' which, like the wind, is invisible, immaterial and powerful." Since that is the case, there is no need to personalize this word.
(c) God's son cannot be God. The "Son of God" is a separate entity from God.
(d) "The extraordinary influence of God upon man is often called an Impulse, because it drives or impels the person, who is subject to it; and nothing is more common than to speak of ourselves as led by particular views, motives, and dispositions. If therefore we understand the term spirit to denote gifts, affections, and energies, these expressions are suited to the usual forms of human speech. As the first Christians were incited by the holy spirit go from place to place, we find that the same influence occasionally restrained them. For it is said, (Acts xvi. 6, 7,) that Paul and Timothy 'were forbidden of the holy spirit to preach the word in Asia,' or more properly, 'were restrained by the holy spirit from preaching the word in Asia,' and that 'they assayed to go into Bithynia, but the spirit suffered them not.'" James Yates, A Vindication of Unitarianism 1815
(e) "Forty is a common numerological device in the Bible, such as the forty days of the flood in Genesis 7 and the forty years of the Israelites wandering in the desert in Exodus. Elijah also spent forty days and nights travelling to Mount Horeb in 1 Kings 19:8." Wikipedia
(f) Mark consistently uses 'Simon' until Mark 3:16 when Jesus changes the name to 'Peter'.
(g) The name JESUS has been called the "pentagrammaton" and His name in Greek has the numerical value of 888 which is called the "resurrection number."

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From Elbridge Gerry Brooks:

"But confining myself to the point before us, it is enough for me to ask if there is an intelligent man or woman to be found, who will say that the Trinitarian doctrine of Christ is a rational and consistent doctrine?—a doctrine that any thoughtful person can intelligently believe? I know how sensitive those who believe it are to any reflections to its disadvantage; but if I am speaking to any such, they must excuse me for pressing this question upon them: Is this Trinitarian doctrine a rational and consistent doctrine to you? Is there one present who can say that it is so? or who can say that he or she knows any body to whom it is so? The doctrine of the Trinity has been pronounced 'an outrage against our rational nature.' Certainly, it is an offence to all our ideas of what is reasonable or probable. 'Its three persons, constituting its one God, must either be frittered away into three unnecessary distinctions, into sounds signifying nothing, or they are three conscious agents, who cannot be made one being, with one consciousness and one will.' To say, then, that Christ is one of these three, and yet that with his two associates he is but one, is to contradict the very first principles of common-sense, and to assert what, as was said in our last discourse, is a mathematical impossibility."