“To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins,”
To give his people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins — the content of John's preparatory ministry: the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of sins. Knowledge (gnōsis) here is not intellectual information but the experiential recognition of the salvation that the forgiveness makes available. Through the forgiveness of their sins: the mechanism of salvation is forgiveness — the release of the debt that estranges the people from God.
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