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Read Mark 15:42-47 He’s dead. His body removed from the cross. Lovingly wrapped in fresh linens. Carefully laid in another man’s tomb. And a massive stone, placed over the opening. Mary, Jesus’ mother watched it all in shock. The disciples were devastated. Fearing for...
Read Mark 15:33-41 The Son of God. The first confession that Jesus was the Son of God happens at the cross. As He dies. A Roman guard who watched what happened when Jesus died believed! The sky grew dark. The temple curtain was torn. From top to bottom. The only other time Mark uses this word...
Read Mark 14:21-32 The King of The Jews. Matthew and Mark tell us that the sign on Jesus’ cross was the charge against him. John tells us that it was there at Pilate’s direction. In all the Gospels, the crowd mocks Jesus with the phrase. “Save yourself!” “Come on...
Read Mark 15:1-20 Crucify Him! Can you imagine? Even knowing it was coming… to hear the voices of the very people you will die for raised in unity calling for your death? James Cone wrote a book called The Cross and the Lynching Tree in which he compares the horrific practice of...
Read Mark 14:53-72 He remained silent. Jesus didn’t say anything in response to His accusers. Just as He didn’t resist His arrest, He was not compelled to offer up a response to every false thing the ‘witnesses’ said about Him. After what we assume were hours of lies...
Read Mark 14:32-52 A kiss. Thanks to Judas, the kiss of betrayal is so common it is a cliché. It is the first mockery Jesus will endure in Mark’s crucifixion account. It was not mentioned elsewhere that the disciples greeted Jesus with a kiss. To walk up to Jesus and give a showy...
Read Mark 14:12-31 I would never! The disciples were so certain that they would never fall away. They would never betray Jesus. They would never desert Him. This passage is one of the most beautiful parts of Mark’s Gospel. In between the story of betrayal and the story of denial, Jesus...
Read Mark 14:1-11 It wasn’t about the money. We know from Matthew that Judas betrayed Jesus for thirty pieces of silver. But I don’t think he did it for the money. In Mark, Judas decides to betray Jesus after Jesus responds to the worship of the woman at Simon - the...
Read Mark 13:24-37 Stay awake! Yesterday, we talked about how Jesus wanted to prepare the disciples for what would happen to the temple and Jerusalem. He wanted them to stand firm and to endure. In the next verses, he tells them how. He says, there’s an end to the story that you need to...
Read Mark 13:1-23 Be on guard! As Jesus leaves the temple in 13:1 (never to return again), his disciples note how amazing the temple is. And it was! Twelve football fields could have fit in the temple footprint! But Jesus says even this great temple will fall. And he goes on to tell them about...
