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Read Mark 5:21-43 “And they laughed at him.” When Jesus arrived at the home of the dead girl and he said she was just sleeping, they laughed. What an inappropriate time for laughter! Their friends’ daughter had just died. But they were so flabbergasted by Jesus&rsquo...
Read Mark 5:1-20 Go and tell. This former outsider’s life has changed forever. He was kept outside of town. Outside society. Forced to live in a cemetery. The dead were the only ones who would have him. People had given up on him. No one knew what to do with him. They tried...
Read Mark 4:21-41 “Be quiet!” Jesus calms the storm the same way a parent stops an argument between dueling siblings. “Knock it off! I’m trying to take a nap here!” And again, his disciples were amazed. “Who is this?” This messianic mystery in Mark is...
Read Mark 4:1-20 Do you understand? Over and over in the book of Mark, the disciples are portrayed as missing the point. Most scholars agree that Mark’s gospel was largely a collection of Peter’s memories. What I love about Peter is that he is never afraid to answer a...
Read Mark 3:13-35 “He’s out of his mind!” That was Jesus’s family’s take on what was going on with him. To be fair, if one of my brothers had claimed to have the power to forgive sin when I was a teenager, I would have said the same thing. The scribes had another...
Read Mark 3:1-12 “Stretch out your hand.” I wonder if this man had planned on asking Jesus for healing that day, or if he was just trying to go learn at the temple. But Jesus calls him to the center of the room, and in an act that leads to the beginnings of the plot to kill Jesus...
Read Mark 2:18-28 Why? Jesus got this question a lot. Why do you do that? The way Jesus talked and lived was surprising. He changed social norms. He spent time with outsiders- tax collectors, sinners, people who weren’t Jewish. He healed on the Sabbath. His disciples didn’t...
Read Mark 2:1-17 How committed is your community? This chapter begins with some friends who went ALL IN to get their friend the help he needed! They cut a hole in someone’s ROOF to get their paralyzed friend in front of Jesus! And then, when they finally get their friend in...
Read Mark 1:29-45 The Messianic Secret. Throughout the first half of Mark’s gospel, Jesus repeatedly tells people not to say anything about what He did or who He is. Theologians call this feature of Mark’s Gospel, “the messianic secret.” It seems most likely that...
Read Mark 1:16-28 “Follow me.” Can you imagine? To be minding your own business at work, and someone comes along and tells you to leave what you’re doing and come with them. Mark says that Simon, Andrew, James, and John heard those words and ‘immediately&rsquo...
