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Read Mark 11:1-10 “Hosanna!” It means “Save, I pray.” This is what the people shouted as Jesus entered into Jerusalem. Mark is more reserved about his description of the people’s reception than Mathew and John who explicitly tie this moment to a messianic...
Read Mark 10:46-52 Follow. After Bartimaeus receives his sight, the story ends with the note that he followed Jesus on the way. On the way to where? The second half of Mark uses that phrase “on the way” several times to describe Jesus’ journey to Jerusalem. His journey to the...
Read Mark 10:32-45 “You don’t know what you’re asking.” For the third time in Mark’s gospel, Jesus predicts His death. The disciples again don’t know what to do with this idea. The first time He predicted His death, they argued over who...
Read Mark 10:13-31 “Like a child.” This is how Jesus says we enter into the Kingdom. A lot of ink has been spilled contemplating the meanings of these words. One theologian suggests that “like a child” means helpless. These little children were not valued by...
Read Mark 10:1-12 It is lawful? Once again, we read the religious folks coming to Jesus with a question. Marriage was a hot topic back then, just like it is now. Their question wasn’t really about divorce. In the same way, many theological debates today aren’t really about...
Read Mark 9:30-50 “Who is the best?” You gotta love the disciples. Despite spending SO MUCH TIME with Jesus, they just keep missing the point. Perhaps they were feeling inadequate after their inability to cast out the demon in the young boy they had just encountered, or didn’t...
Read Mark 9:14-29 I believe, help my unbelief. This is one of the most honest confessions of faith in all of Scripture. This father loves his son and is weary from watching him suffer. Four times in this passage, we read about the affliction this boy has been suffering. Even the disciples were...
Read Mark 9:2-13 Don’t tell anyone. Jesus commanded Peter, James, and John not to tell anyone what they had seen on the mountain until after he rose from the dead. Why would He say that? I suspect the reason he told them to keep this secret was because everyone still had a really hard...
Read Mark 8:31-9:1 “And they began to rebuke him.” From the looks of it, the disciples were just as averse to suffering as we are. They couldn’t fathom a Messianic path that would include death. So often in our world, success looks like all the numbers heading up and to...
Read Mark 8:11-30 Don’t you remember? In the book of Mark, the disciples are consistently portrayed as clueless while those on the “outside”- Gentiles, those of lower social classes, or sinners- seem to understand who Jesus is. After all they’ve seen, fresh off a...
