Mark 1,3-5
A voice of one calling in the wilderness, “Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.”’
And so John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. The whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem went out to him. Confessing their sins, and they were baptised by him in the River Jordan.
The audience (probably people with a sophisticated knowledge of Judeo-Roman relations) DID NOT take this first scene of this play about the fictional character Jesus, King of the Jews, to be a representation of an actual event.
ALL the people of the Judaean countryside and ALL the people of Jerusalem would have been an enormous mass of people.
The scene is putting forward an image of an abrupt, complete change in Judaean society.
WHO WROTE IT?
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