Outline
- 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 6
30 The apostles returned to Jesus from
their ministry tour and told him all they had done and taught.
31 Then Jesus said, “Let’s go off by
ourselves to a quiet place and rest awhile.” He said this because there were so
many people coming and going that Jesus and his apostles didn’t even have time
to eat.
32 So they left by boat for a quiet place,
where they could be alone.
33 But many people recognized them and saw
them leaving, and people from many towns ran ahead along the shore and got
there ahead of them.
34 Jesus saw the huge crowd as he stepped
from the boat, and he had compassion on them because they were like sheep
without a shepherd. So he began teaching them many things.
35 Late in the afternoon his disciples came
to him and said, “This is a remote place, and it’s already getting late.
36 Send the crowds away so they can go to
the nearby farms and villages and buy something to eat.”
37 But Jesus said, “You feed them.” “With
what?” they asked. “We’d have to work for months to earn enough money to buy
food for all these people!”
38 “How much bread do you have?” he asked.
“Go and find out.” They came back and reported, “We have five loaves of bread
and two fish.”
39 Then Jesus told the disciples to have
the people sit down in groups on the green grass.
40 So they sat down in groups of fifty or a
hundred.
41 Jesus took the five loaves and two fish,
looked up toward heaven, and blessed them. Then, breaking the loaves into
pieces, he kept giving the bread to the disciples so they could distribute it
to the people. He also divided the fish for everyone to share.
42 They all ate as much as they wanted,
43 and afterward, the disciples picked up
twelve baskets of leftover bread and fish.
44 A total of 5,000 men and their families
were fed.
45 Immediately after this, Jesus insisted
that his disciples get back into the boat and head across the lake to
Bethsaida, while he sent the people home.
46 After telling everyone good-bye, he went
up into the hills by himself to pray.
47 Late that night, the disciples were in
their boat in the middle of the lake, and Jesus was alone on land.
48 He saw that they were in serious
trouble, rowing hard and struggling against the wind and waves. About three
o’clock in the morning Jesus came toward them, walking on the water. He
intended to go past them,
49 but when they saw him walking on the
water, they cried out in terror, thinking he was a ghost.
50 They were all terrified when they saw
him. But Jesus spoke to them at once. “Don’t be afraid,” he said. “Take
courage! I am here! ”
51 Then he climbed into the boat, and the
wind stopped. They were totally amazed,
52 for they still didn’t understand the
significance of the miracle of the loaves. Their hearts were too hard to take
it in.
53 After they had crossed the lake, they
landed at Gennesaret. They brought the boat to shore
54 and climbed out. The people recognized
Jesus at once,
55 and they ran throughout the whole area,
carrying sick people on mats to wherever they heard he was.
56 Wherever he went—in villages, cities, or
the countryside—they brought the sick out to the marketplaces. They begged him
to let the sick touch at least the fringe of his robe, and all who touched him
were healed.
Mark 7
1 One day some Pharisees and teachers of
religious law arrived from Jerusalem to see Jesus.
2 They noticed that some of his disciples
failed to follow the Jewish ritual of hand washing before eating.
3 (The Jews, especially the Pharisees, do
not eat until they have poured water over their cupped hands, as required by
their ancient traditions.
4 Similarly, they don’t eat anything from
the market until they immerse their hands in water. This is but one of many
traditions they have clung to—such as their ceremonial washing of cups,
pitchers, and kettles. )
5 So the Pharisees and teachers of
religious law asked him, “Why don’t your disciples follow our age-old
tradition? They eat without first performing the hand-washing ceremony.”
6 Jesus replied, “You hypocrites! Isaiah
was right when he prophesied about you, for he wrote, ‘These people honor me
with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
7 Their worship is a farce, for they teach
man-made ideas as commands from God.’
8 For you ignore God’s law and substitute
your own tradition.”
9 Then he said, “You skillfully sidestep
God’s law in order to hold on to your own tradition.
10 For instance, Moses gave you this law
from God: ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and ‘Anyone who speaks
disrespectfully of father or mother must be put to death.’
11 But you say it is all right for people
to say to their parents, ‘Sorry, I can’t help you. For I have vowed to give to
God what I would have given to you.’
12 In this way, you let them disregard
their needy parents.
13 And so you cancel the word of God in
order to hand down your own tradition. And this is only one example among many
others.”
14 Then Jesus called to the crowd to come
and hear. “All of you listen,” he said, “and try to understand.
15 It’s not what goes into your body that
defiles you; you are defiled by what comes from your heart. ”
16
17 Then Jesus went into a house to get away
from the crowd, and his disciples asked him what he meant by the parable he had
just used.
18 “Don’t you understand either?” he asked.
“Can’t you see that the food you put into your body cannot defile you?
19 Food doesn’t go into your heart, but
only passes through the stomach and then goes into the sewer.” (By saying this,
he declared that every kind of food is acceptable in God’s eyes.)
20 And then he added, “It is what comes
from inside that defiles you.
21 For from within, out of a person’s
heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder,
22 adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit,
lustful desires, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.
23 All these vile things come from within;
they are what defile you.”
24 Then Jesus left Galilee and went north
to the region of Tyre. He didn’t want anyone to know which house he was staying
in, but he couldn’t keep it a secret.
25 Right away a woman who had heard about
him came and fell at his feet. Her little girl was possessed by an evil spirit,
26 and she begged him to cast out the demon
from her daughter. Since she was a Gentile, born in Syrian Phoenicia,
27 Jesus told her, “First I should feed the
children—my own family, the Jews. It isn’t right to take food from the children
and throw it to the dogs.”
28 She replied, “That’s true, Lord, but
even the dogs under the table are allowed to eat the scraps from the children’s
plates.”
29 “Good answer!” he said. “Now go home,
for the demon has left your daughter.”
30 And when she arrived home, she found her
little girl lying quietly in bed, and the demon was gone.
