Mark Study #14: Lord of the Sabbath

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Our scripture this week is Mark 2:23-28 “One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are [...]

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Gospel of Mark Study #13: The Bridegroom and the New Wine

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Our scripture this week is Mark 2:18-22 Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. Some people came and asked Jesus, “How is it that John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees are fasting, but yours [...]

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Gospel of Mark Study 12: The Tax Collector

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Our passage today is Mark 2:13-17. Once again Jesus went out beside the lake. A large crowd came to him, and he began to teach them. As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting [...]

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Gospel of Mark Study #11: The Forgiveness of Sins

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Our passage today is Mark 2:-12 A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home. So many gathered that there was no room left, not even outside the door, [...]

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Gospel of Mark Study #8: The Calling

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Our passage today is Mark 1:16-20. ” And passing along by the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net in the sea; for they were fishermen. And Jesus said [...]

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Gospel of Mark Study #5: The Temptation

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Our passage this week is the temptation of Jesus recorded in Mark 1:12-13. Like so many things in Mark, this passage seems highly abbreviated when compared to the other synoptic gospel accounts. Matthew and Luke add details [...]

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Gospel of Mark Study #4: The Baptism

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Our scripture passage this week is Mark 1:9-11, the baptism of Jesus. Most of our “memory” of Jesus’ baptism is a combination and harmonization of all four gospel accounts. When we look at Mark’s account by itself, [...]

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Gospel of Mark Study #3: The Forerunner

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John the Baptist is certainly one of the most intriguing figures in the entire Bible. Josephus devotes a large amount of material to him and Acts 19:1-7 indicates that John’s influence extended far beyond a few converts [...]

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Gospel of Mark Study #2: The Beginning

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Mark is one of five Biblical books that talks of beginnings in the title sentence. Genesis 1:1 speaks of the beginning of God’s creative activity. John 1:1 says that in that same beginning, Jesus was God the [...]

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Gospel of Mark Study 1: Why Study Mark?

The first thing I ever did on the internet was write Bible Studies on the Gospel of Mark. I got have finished. They’ve been on a Geocities site for years. I’m going to move them here to a new home at JSS.
These are unedited, with plenty of errors of various kinds. I’ll be spending some [...]

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