Expository Notes on the Gospel of Mark
Overview
In this commentary, Ironside remains thoughtfully attuned to the active and dynamic pace of the Gospel of Mark, while explaining the nature of Christ as the servant and as the Son of Man. His chapter-by-chapter analysis includes timely words for his original audience and for contemporary readers.
Product Details
- Title: Expository Notes on the Gospel of Mark
- Author: H. A. Ironside
- Publisher: Loizeaux Brothers
- Publication Date: 1948
- Pages: 251
About Harry Allen Ironside
Harry Allen Ironside, one of the twentieth century’s greatest preachers, was born in Toronto, Canada on October 14, 1876. Though his education stopped with grammar school, his fondness for reading and a retentive memory put his learning to use. His scholarship was recognized in academic circles when he received honorary degrees from Wheaton College and Bob Jones University and was invited as frequent lecturer at Dallas Theological Seminary. Dr. Ironside was appointed to the boards of numerous Bible institutes, seminaries, and Christian organizations. He also served as director of the Africa Inland Mission. Ironside preached widely throughout the United States and abroad. He served as pastor of Moody Memorial Church from 1930 to 1948, and during his lifetime, he preached more than 7,000 sermons to over 1.25 million listeners.
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Top Highlights
“Mark’s supreme object was to show the Gentile world the active love of God in Jesus the Christ, serving needy men, seeking after sinners and saving all who trusted Him.” (Pages 11–12)
“Mark was the Evangelist chosen by the Holy Spirit to portray our Lord in these two offices, as Servant and Prophet.” (Page 12)
“To follow Christ means to share His cup of sorrow, to be misunderstood, and even hated and maligned by the world that lieth in the wicked one. But he who takes this path finds a joy in fellowship with the rejected King and in communion with fellow-sufferers, of which the worldling knows nothing; and he looks forward with assured hope to entering eternal life in the age to come. All believers now have eternal life abiding in them but in a decaying body. In the age to come we shall enter into life in all its fulness when the body as well as the soul is fully redeemed from the bondage of corruption.” (Pages 157–158)
“His temptation was not to see if, perchance, He might fail and sin in the hour of stress, but rather to prove that He would not fail, because He was the absolutely sinless One. They do Him a grievous wrong who impute to Him either a sinful nature or the possibility of sinning. Scripture guards against any such misconceptions when it tells us that He was tempted in all points even as we are, yet without sin—or, literally, apart from sin. There was in Him no inward tendency to sin. The temptations were all from without and found no response whatever in His heart.” (Page 20)
“Because we are not concerned about a servant’s forbears, but rather about his ability, there is no genealogy at all in this Gospel, but a marvelous record of activity in doing good and in making known the mind of God.” (Page 10)
- Title: Expository Notes on the Gospel of Mark
- Author: Harry A. Ironside
- Series: Works of H.A. Ironside
- Publisher: Loizeaux Brothers
- Print Publication Date: 1948
- Logos Release Date: 2009
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. N.T. Mark › Commentaries
- Resource ID: LLS:IRONSIDE62MK
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2020-10-26T20:34:10Z
H. A. Ironside (1876–1951) is one of the twentieth century’s greatest preachers. He has received honorary degrees from Wheaton College and Bob Jones University and was frequently invited to lecture at Dallas Theological Seminary.
After a serving as a Salvation Army officer for a brief period, Ironside joined the Plymouth Brethren and started what would become a highly successful itinerant ministry of preaching and teaching. He served as pastor at Moody Memorial Church from 1930 to 1948, and preached more than 7,000 sermons during his lifetime.
Harry A. Ironside produced close to 100 major books and pamphlets, mainly on expository and prophetic themes. He was a major figure in the popularizing of dispensationalism among American evangelicals and for the most part followed the views of the Scofield Reference Bible. Ironside’s first-edition commentaries, most-loved sermons, addresses, lectures, and tracts are available in The Works of H. A. Ironside (65 vols.).
