Outline
I. The Beginnings of Jesus' Ministry (1:1-13)
A. His Forerunner (1:1-8)
- Early Galilean Ministry (1:14;3:12)
- Call of the first disciples (1:14-20)
- Miracles in Capernaum (1:21-34)
- Preaching and healing in Galilee (1:35-45)
- Ministry in Capernaum (2:1-22)
- Sabbath controversy (2:23;3:12)
- Later Galilean Ministry (3:13;6:29)
- Choosing the 12 apostles (3:13-19)
- Teachings in Capernaum (3:20-35)
- Parables of the kingdom (4:1-34)
- Calming the Sea of Galilee (4:35-41)
- Healing a demon-possessed man (5:1-20)
- More Galilean miracles (5:21-43)
- Unbelief in Jesus' hometown (6:1-6)
- Six apostolic teams preach and heal in Galilee (6:7-13)
- King Herod's reaction to Jesus' ministry (6:14-29)
- Jesus' Ministry in Judea and Perea (ch. 10)
VII. The Resurrection of Jesus (ch. 16)
Mark 5
1 So they arrived at the other side of the
lake, in the region of the Gerasenes.
2 When Jesus climbed out of the boat, a
man possessed by an evil spirit came out from a cemetery to meet him.
3 This man lived among the burial caves
and could no longer be restrained, even with a chain.
4 Whenever he was put into chains and
shackles—as he often was—he snapped the chains from his wrists and smashed the
shackles. No one was strong enough to subdue him.
5 Day and night he wandered among the
burial caves and in the hills, howling and cutting himself with sharp stones.
6 When Jesus was still some distance away,
the man saw him, ran to meet him, and bowed low before him.
7 With a shriek, he screamed, “Why are you
interfering with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? In the name of God, I beg
you, don’t torture me!”
8 For Jesus had already said to the spirit,
“Come out of the man, you evil spirit.”
9 Then Jesus demanded, “What is your
name?” And he replied, “My name is Legion, because there are many of us inside
this man.”
10 Then the evil spirits begged him again
and again not to send them to some distant place.
11 There happened to be a large herd of
pigs feeding on the hillside nearby.
12 “Send us into those pigs,” the spirits
begged. “Let us enter them.”
13 So Jesus gave them permission. The evil
spirits came out of the man and entered the pigs, and the entire herd of about
2,000 pigs plunged down the steep hillside into the lake and drowned in the
water.
14 The herdsmen fled to the nearby town and
the surrounding countryside, spreading the news as they ran. People rushed out
to see what had happened.
15 A crowd soon gathered around Jesus, and
they saw the man who had been possessed by the legion of demons. He was sitting
there fully clothed and perfectly sane, and they were all afraid.
16 Then those who had seen what happened
told the others about the demon-possessed man and the pigs.
17 And the crowd began pleading with Jesus
to go away and leave them alone.
18 As Jesus was getting into the boat, the
man who had been demon possessed begged to go with him.
19 But Jesus said, “No, go home to your
family, and tell them everything the Lord has done for you and how merciful he
has been.”
20 So the man started off to visit the Ten
Towns of that region and began to proclaim the great things Jesus had done for
him; and everyone was amazed at what he told them.
21 Jesus got into the boat again and went
back to the other side of the lake, where a large crowd gathered around him on
the shore.
22 Then a leader of the local synagogue,
whose name was Jairus, arrived. When he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet,
23 pleading fervently with him. “My little
daughter is dying,” he said. “Please come and lay your hands on her; heal her
so she can live.”
24 Jesus went with him, and all the people
followed, crowding around him.
25 A woman in the crowd had suffered for
twelve years with constant bleeding.
26 She had suffered a great deal from many
doctors, and over the years she had spent everything she had to pay them, but
she had gotten no better. In fact, she had gotten worse.
27 She had heard about Jesus, so she came
up behind him through the crowd and touched his robe.
28 For she thought to herself, “If I can
just touch his robe, I will be healed.”
29 Immediately the bleeding stopped, and
she could feel in her body that she had been healed of her terrible condition.
30 Jesus realized at once that healing
power had gone out from him, so he turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who
touched my robe?”
31 His disciples said to him, “Look at this
crowd pressing around you. How can you ask, ‘Who touched me?’”
32 But he kept on looking around to see who
had done it.
33 Then the frightened woman, trembling at
the realization of what had happened to her, came and fell to her knees in
front of him and told him what she had done.
34 And he said to her, “Daughter, your
faith has made you well. Go in peace. Your suffering is over.”
35 While he was still speaking to her,
messengers arrived from the home of Jairus, the leader of the synagogue. They
told him, “Your daughter is dead. There’s no use troubling the Teacher now.”
36 But Jesus overheard them and said to
Jairus, “Don’t be afraid. Just have faith.”
37 Then Jesus stopped the crowd and
wouldn’t let anyone go with him except Peter, James, and John (the brother of
James).
38 When they came to the home of the
synagogue leader, Jesus saw much commotion and weeping and wailing.
39 He went inside and asked, “Why all this
commotion and weeping? The child isn’t dead; she’s only asleep.”
40 The crowd laughed at him. But he made
them all leave, and he took the girl’s father and mother and his three disciples
into the room where the girl was lying.
41 Holding her hand, he said to her, which
means “Little girl, get up!”
42 And the girl, who was twelve years old,
immediately stood up and walked around! They were overwhelmed and totally
amazed.
43 Jesus gave them strict orders not to
tell anyone what had happened, and then he told them to give her something to
eat.
Mark 6
1 Jesus left that part of the country and
returned with his disciples to Nazareth, his hometown.
2 The next Sabbath he began teaching in
the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed. They asked, “Where did he
get all this wisdom and the power to perform such miracles?”
3 Then they scoffed, “He’s just a
carpenter, the son of Mary and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon.
And his sisters live right here among us.” They were deeply offended and
refused to believe in him.
4 Then Jesus told them, “A prophet is
honored everywhere except in his own hometown and among his relatives and his
own family.”
5 And because of their unbelief, he
couldn’t do any miracles among them except to place his hands on a few sick
people and heal them.
6 And he was amazed at their unbelief.
Jesus Sends Out the Twelve Disciples Then Jesus went from village to village,
teaching the people.
7 And he called his twelve disciples
together and began sending them out two by two, giving them authority to cast
out evil spirits.
8 He told them to take nothing for their
journey except a walking stick—no food, no traveler’s bag, no money.
9 He allowed them to wear sandals but not
to take a change of clothes.
10 “Wherever you go,” he said, “stay in the
same house until you leave town.
11 But if any place refuses to welcome you
or listen to you, shake its dust from your feet as you leave to show that you
have abandoned those people to their fate.”
12 So the disciples went out, telling
everyone they met to repent of their sins and turn to God.
13 And they cast out many demons and healed
many sick people, anointing them with olive oil.
14 Herod Antipas, the king, soon heard
about Jesus, because everyone was talking about him. Some were saying, “This
must be John the Baptist raised from the dead. That is why he can do such
miracles.”
15 Others said, “He’s the prophet Elijah.”
Still others said, “He’s a prophet like the other great prophets of the past.”
16 When Herod heard about Jesus, he said,
“John, the man I beheaded, has come back from the dead.”
17 For Herod had sent soldiers to arrest
and imprison John as a favor to Herodias. She had been his brother Philip’s wife,
but Herod had married her.
18 John had been telling Herod, “It is
against God’s law for you to marry your brother’s wife.”
19 So Herodias bore a grudge against John
and wanted to kill him. But without Herod’s approval she was powerless,
20 for Herod respected John; and knowing
that he was a good and holy man, he protected him. Herod was greatly disturbed
whenever he talked with John, but even so, he liked to listen to him.
21 Herodias’s chance finally came on
Herod’s birthday. He gave a party for his high government officials, army
officers, and the leading citizens of Galilee.
22 Then his daughter, also named Herodias,
came in and performed a dance that greatly pleased Herod and his guests. “Ask
me for anything you like,” the king said to the girl, “and I will give it to
you.”
23 He even vowed, “I will give you whatever
you ask, up to half my kingdom!”
24 She went out and asked her mother, “What
should I ask for?” Her mother told her, “Ask for the head of John the Baptist!”
25 So the girl hurried back to the king and
told him, “I want the head of John the Baptist, right now, on a tray!”
26 Then the king deeply regretted what he
had said; but because of the vows he had made in front of his guests, he
couldn’t refuse her.
27 So he immediately sent an executioner to
the prison to cut off John’s head and bring it to him. The soldier beheaded
John in the prison,
28 brought his head on a tray, and gave it
to the girl, who took it to her mother.
29 When John’s disciples heard what had
happened, they came to get his body and buried it in a tomb.
