Status Updates From The Gospel of Mark (Catholi...

The "Good News" is always and inexhaustibly new. The desert is a place of deprivation and trial. Repentance in greek literally means "a change of mind." This is why guilt ≠ repentance. John's baptism is the start of a new exodus, one not of captivity from Pharaoh but from captivity to sin with Jesus as the new and fulfilled Moses. John's prophecy finds its fulfillment in the sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation.