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Peter’s confession that Jesus was the Messiah was immediately followed by Jesus’ first teaching about the path that the Messiah would take, a path of suffering, rejection, death and resurrection. This didn’t fit with the idea that Peter had in his mind and hear about what the Messiah would be or what the Messiah would...

Our last study closed with Peter’s confession, “You are the Christ”. All of the book of Mark had built to that moment, everything that Mark wrote, the way that He described Jesus’ words and works was all to bring us to the moment where we recognize that He is indeed the Messiah. From the moment...

The boat ride to Bethsaida must have been a tense one. Jesus shared His heart and His concern with the disciples but they were so caught up in their current circumstances that they completely missed the point of what He was sharing. “Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of...

Our last time together we moved from Jesus’ miraculous feeding of the 4,000 into His confrontation with the Pharisees in which they asked Him for a sign, a miracle that they could use as proof that He was indeed sent from God. Mark’s language revealed that the Pharisees were not sincere in their request, they...

After the feeding of the 4,000 Mark writes “And He sent them away, immediately got into the boat with His disciples, and came to the region of Dalmanutha.” That miracle had been a revelation of Jesus’ compassion; He was moved by the condition of the multitude and would not leave them hungry or put them...

Mark 7 ended with a declaration from the multitudes about Jesus, “He has done all things well.” His character and His nature is beginning to be recognized as much as His power. He is still being followed, in large part because of the miracles that are being seen but there is growth happening in the...

Our last class focused on Jesus’ interaction with a woman of Syro-Phoenician decent. We concentrated on their interaction with each other, Jesus’ gentleness that often gets misconstrued and even accused of being unloving and unkind and her unoffended understanding of His words and faith-filled response. The account of the same interaction in Matthew 15 shows...

The first 23 verses of Mark 7 tell us about Jesus’ confrontation with a group of scribes and Pharisees that had come from Jerusalem to observe Him. They heard Him teach, they saw Him work miracles and then they confronted Him as to why His disciples didn’t wash their hands before they ate bread. “Why...

Chapter 7 began with a group of scribes and Pharisees coming from Jerusalem to watch Jesus. Mark tells us that they quickly found fault in Him and questioned Him as to why His disciples didn’t ceremonially wash their hands before eating. A lot of our discussion hinged on the fact that we have a tendency...

Mark 6:45-56 The feeding of the 5,000 revealed God’s perfect provision through Jesus. This miracle was not simply an act of power or a physical manifestation; it was for the apostles and for all believers that we would learn that anything we put in Jesus’ hands becomes whatever is necessary for what He has called...