Monday, September 12, 2016
Mark 3:13- 6:29
II. Jesus' Ministry in Galilee (1:14;6:29)
- Early Galilean Ministry (1:14;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)
Mark 3
13 Afterward Jesus went up on a mountain
and called out the ones he wanted to go with him. And they came to him.
14 Then he appointed twelve of them and
called them his apostles. They were to accompany him, and he would send them
out to preach,
15 giving them authority to cast out
demons.
16 These are the twelve he chose: Simon
(whom he named Peter),
17 James and John (the sons of Zebedee, but
Jesus nicknamed them “Sons of Thunder” ),
18 Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew,
Thomas, James (son of Alphaeus), Thaddaeus, Simon (the zealot ),
19 Judas Iscariot (who later betrayed him).
20 One time Jesus entered a house, and the
crowds began to gather again. Soon he and his disciples couldn’t even find time
to eat.
21 When his family heard what was
happening, they tried to take him away. “He’s out of his mind,” they said.
22 But the teachers of religious law who
had arrived from Jerusalem said, “He’s possessed by Satan, the prince of demons.
That’s where he gets the power to cast out demons.”
23 Jesus called them over and responded
with an illustration. “How can Satan cast out Satan?” he asked.
24 “A kingdom divided by civil war will
collapse.
25 Similarly, a family splintered by
feuding will fall apart.
26 And if Satan is divided and fights
against himself, how can he stand? He would never survive.
27 Let me illustrate this further. Who is
powerful enough to enter the house of a strong man like Satan and plunder his
goods? Only someone even stronger—someone who could tie him up and then plunder
his house.
28 “I tell you the truth, all sin and
blasphemy can be forgiven,
29 but anyone who blasphemes the Holy
Spirit will never be forgiven. This is a sin with eternal consequences.”
30 He told them this because they were
saying, “He’s possessed by an evil spirit.”
31 Then Jesus’ mother and brothers came to
see him. They stood outside and sent word for him to come out and talk with
them.
32 There was a crowd sitting around Jesus,
and someone said, “Your mother and your brothers are outside asking for you.”
33 Jesus replied, “Who is my mother? Who
are my brothers?”
34 Then he looked at those around him and
said, “Look, these are my mother and brothers.
35 Anyone who does God’s will is my brother
and sister and mother.”
Mark 4
1 Once again Jesus began teaching by the
lakeshore. A very large crowd soon gathered around him, so he got into a boat.
Then he sat in the boat while all the people remained on the shore.
2 He taught them by telling many stories
in the form of parables, such as this one:
3 “Listen! A farmer went out to plant some
seed.
4 As he scattered it across his field,
some of the seed fell on a footpath, and the birds came and ate it.
5 Other seed fell on shallow soil with
underlying rock. The seed sprouted quickly because the soil was shallow.
6 But the plant soon wilted under the hot
sun, and since it didn’t have deep roots, it died.
7 Other seed fell among thorns that grew
up and choked out the tender plants so they produced no grain.
8 Still other seeds fell on fertile soil,
and they sprouted, grew, and produced a crop that was thirty, sixty, and even a
hundred times as much as had been planted!”
9 Then he said, “Anyone with ears to hear
should listen and understand.”
10 Later, when Jesus was alone with the
twelve disciples and with the others who were gathered around, they asked him
what the parables meant.
11 He replied, “You are permitted to
understand the secret of the Kingdom of God. But I use parables for everything
I say to outsiders,
12 so that the Scriptures might be
fulfilled: ‘When they see what I do, they will learn nothing. When they hear
what I say, they will not understand. Otherwise, they will turn to me and be
forgiven.’ ”
13 Then Jesus said to them, “If you can’t understand
the meaning of this parable, how will you understand all the other parables?
14 The farmer plants seed by taking God’s
word to others.
15 The seed that fell on the footpath
represents those who hear the message, only to have Satan come at once and take
it away.
16 The seed on the rocky soil represents
those who hear the message and immediately receive it with joy.
17 But since they don’t have deep roots,
they don’t last long. They fall away as soon as they have problems or are
persecuted for believing God’s word.
18 The seed that fell among the thorns
represents others who hear God’s word,
19 but all too quickly the message is
crowded out by the worries of this life, the lure of wealth, and the desire for
other things, so no fruit is produced.
20 And the seed that fell on good soil
represents those who hear and accept God’s word and produce a harvest of
thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times as much as had been planted!”
21 Then Jesus asked them, “Would anyone
light a lamp and then put it under a basket or under a bed? Of course not! A
lamp is placed on a stand, where its light will shine.
22 For everything that is hidden will
eventually be brought into the open, and every secret will be brought to light.
23 Anyone with ears to hear should listen
and understand.”
24 Then he added, “Pay close attention to
what you hear. The closer you listen, the more understanding you will be given
—and you will receive even more.
25 To those who listen to my teaching, more
understanding will be given. But for those who are not listening, even what
little understanding they have will be taken away from them.”
26 Jesus also said, “The Kingdom of God is
like a farmer who scatters seed on the ground.
27 Night and day, while he’s asleep or
awake, the seed sprouts and grows, but he does not understand how it happens.
28 The earth produces the crops on its own.
First a leaf blade pushes through, then the heads of wheat are formed, and
finally the grain ripens.
29 And as soon as the grain is ready, the
farmer comes and harvests it with a sickle, for the harvest time has come.”
30 Jesus said, “How can I describe the
Kingdom of God? What story should I use to illustrate it?
31 It is like a mustard seed planted in the
ground. It is the smallest of all seeds,
32 but it becomes the largest of all garden
plants; it grows long branches, and birds can make nests in its shade.”
33 Jesus used many similar stories and
illustrations to teach the people as much as they could understand.
34 In fact, in his public ministry he never
taught without using parables; but afterward, when he was alone with his
disciples, he explained everything to them.
35 As evening came, Jesus said to his
disciples, “Let’s cross to the other side of the lake.”
36 So they took Jesus in the boat and
started out, leaving the crowds behind (although other boats followed).
37 But soon a fierce storm came up. High
waves were breaking into the boat, and it began to fill with water.
38 Jesus was sleeping at the back of the
boat with his head on a cushion. The disciples woke him up, shouting, “Teacher,
don’t you care that we’re going to drown?”
39 When Jesus woke up, he rebuked the wind
and said to the waves, “Silence! Be still!” Suddenly the wind stopped, and
there was a great calm.
40 Then he asked them, “Why are you afraid?
Do you still have no faith?”
41 The disciples were absolutely terrified.
“Who is this man?” they asked each other. “Even the wind and waves obey him!”
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.
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Saturday, September 10, 2016
Mark 1:14 - 3:12
II. Jesus' Ministry in Galilee (1:14;6:29)
Mark 1
14 Later on, after John was arrested, Jesus
went into Galilee, where he preached God’s Good News.
15 “The time promised by God has come at
last!” he announced. “The Kingdom of God is near! Repent of your sins and
believe the Good News!”
16 One day as Jesus was walking along the
shore of the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew throwing a net
into the water, for they fished for a living.
17 Jesus called out to them, “Come, follow
me, and I will show you how to fish for people!”
18 And they left their nets at once and
followed him.
19 A little farther up the shore Jesus saw
Zebedee’s sons, James and John, in a boat repairing their nets.
20 He called them at once, and they also
followed him, leaving their father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired men.
21 Jesus and his companions went to the
town of Capernaum. When the Sabbath day came, he went into the synagogue and
began to teach.
22 The people were amazed at his teaching,
for he taught with real authority—quite unlike the teachers of religious law.
23 Suddenly, a man in the synagogue who was
possessed by an evil spirit began shouting,
24 “Why are you interfering with us, Jesus
of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of
God!”
25 Jesus cut him short. “Be quiet! Come out
of the man,” he ordered.
26 At that, the evil spirit screamed, threw
the man into a convulsion, and then came out of him.
27 Amazement gripped the audience, and they
began to discuss what had happened. “What sort of new teaching is this?” they
asked excitedly. “It has such authority! Even evil spirits obey his orders!”
28 The news about Jesus spread quickly
throughout the entire region of Galilee.
29 After Jesus left the synagogue with
James and John, they went to Simon and Andrew’s home.
30 Now Simon’s mother-in-law was sick in
bed with a high fever. They told Jesus about her right away.
31 So he went to her bedside, took her by
the hand, and helped her sit up. Then the fever left her, and she prepared a
meal for them.
32 That evening after sunset, many sick and
demon-possessed people were brought to Jesus.
33 The whole town gathered at the door to
watch.
34 So Jesus healed many people who were
sick with various diseases, and he cast out many demons. But because the demons
knew who he was, he did not allow them to speak.
35 Before daybreak the next morning, Jesus
got up and went out to an isolated place to pray.
36 Later Simon and the others went out to
find him.
37 When they found him, they said,
“Everyone is looking for you.”
38 But Jesus replied, “We must go on to
other towns as well, and I will preach to them, too. That is why I came.”
39 So he traveled throughout the region of
Galilee, preaching in the synagogues and casting out demons.
40 A man with leprosy came and knelt in
front of Jesus, begging to be healed. “If you are willing, you can heal me and
make me clean,” he said.
41 Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out
and touched him. “I am willing,” he said. “Be healed!”
42 Instantly the leprosy disappeared, and
the man was healed.
43 Then Jesus sent him on his way with a
stern warning:
44 “Don’t tell anyone about this. Instead,
go to the priest and let him examine you. Take along the offering required in
the law of Moses for those who have been healed of leprosy. This will be a
public testimony that you have been cleansed.”
45 But the man went and spread the word,
proclaiming to everyone what had happened. As a result, large crowds soon
surrounded Jesus, and he couldn’t publicly enter a town anywhere. He had to
stay out in the secluded places, but people from everywhere kept coming to him.
Mark 2
1 When Jesus returned to Capernaum several
days later, the news spread quickly that he was back home.
2 Soon the house where he was staying was
so packed with visitors that there was no more room, even outside the door.
While he was preaching God’s word to them,
3 four men arrived carrying a paralyzed
man on a mat.
4 They couldn’t bring him to Jesus because
of the crowd, so they dug a hole through the roof above his head. Then they
lowered the man on his mat, right down in front of Jesus.
5 Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the
paralyzed man, “My child, your sins are forgiven.”
6 But some of the teachers of religious
law who were sitting there thought to themselves,
7 “What is he saying? This is blasphemy!
Only God can forgive sins!”
8 Jesus knew immediately what they were
thinking, so he asked them, “Why do you question this in your hearts?
9 Is it easier to say to the paralyzed man
‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or ‘Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk’?
10 So I will prove to you that the Son of
Man has the authority on earth to forgive sins.” Then Jesus turned to the
paralyzed man and said,
11 “Stand up, pick up your mat, and go
home!”
12 And the man jumped up, grabbed his mat,
and walked out through the stunned onlookers. They were all amazed and praised
God, exclaiming, “We’ve never seen anything like this before!”
13 Then Jesus went out to the lakeshore
again and taught the crowds that were coming to him.
14 As he walked along, he saw Levi son of
Alphaeus sitting at his tax collector’s booth. “Follow me and be my disciple,”
Jesus said to him. So Levi got up and followed him.
15 Later, Levi invited Jesus and his
disciples to his home as dinner guests, along with many tax collectors and
other disreputable sinners. (There were many people of this kind among Jesus’
followers.)
16 But when the teachers of religious law
who were Pharisees saw him eating with tax collectors and other sinners, they
asked his disciples, “Why does he eat with such scum? ”
17 When Jesus heard this, he told them,
“Healthy people don’t need a doctor—sick people do. I have come to call not
those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners.”
18 Once when John’s disciples and the
Pharisees were fasting, some people came to Jesus and asked, “Why don’t your
disciples fast like John’s disciples and the Pharisees do?”
19 Jesus replied, “Do wedding guests fast
while celebrating with the groom? Of course not. They can’t fast while the
groom is with them.
20 But someday the groom will be taken away
from them, and then they will fast.
21 “Besides, who would patch old clothing
with new cloth? For the new patch would shrink and rip away from the old cloth,
leaving an even bigger tear than before.
22 “And no one puts new wine into old
wineskins. For the wine would burst the wineskins, and the wine and the skins
would both be lost. New wine calls for new wineskins.”
23 One Sabbath day as Jesus was walking
through some grainfields, his disciples began breaking off heads of grain to
eat.
24 But the Pharisees said to Jesus, “Look,
why are they breaking the law by harvesting grain on the Sabbath?”
25 Jesus said to them, “Haven’t you ever
read in the Scriptures what David did when he and his companions were hungry?
26 He went into the house of God (during
the days when Abiathar was high priest) and broke the law by eating the sacred
loaves of bread that only the priests are allowed to eat. He also gave some to
his companions.”
27 Then Jesus said to them, “The Sabbath
was made to meet the needs of people, and not people to meet the requirements
of the Sabbath.
28 So the Son of Man is Lord, even over the
Sabbath!”
Mark 3
1 Jesus went into the synagogue again and
noticed a man with a deformed hand.
2 Since it was the Sabbath, Jesus’ enemies
watched him closely. If he healed the man’s hand, they planned to accuse him of
working on the Sabbath.
3 Jesus said to the man with the deformed
hand, “Come and stand in front of everyone.”
4 Then he turned to his critics and asked,
“Does the law permit good deeds on the Sabbath, or is it a day for doing evil?
Is this a day to save life or to destroy it?” But they wouldn’t answer him.
5 He looked around at them angrily and was
deeply saddened by their hard hearts. Then he said to the man, “Hold out your
hand.” So the man held out his hand, and it was restored!
6 At once the Pharisees went away and met
with the supporters of Herod to plot how to kill Jesus.
7 Jesus went out to the lake with his
disciples, and a large crowd followed him. They came from all over Galilee,
Judea,
8 Jerusalem, Idumea, from east of the
Jordan River, and even from as far north as Tyre and Sidon. The news about his
miracles had spread far and wide, and vast numbers of people came to see him.
9 Jesus instructed his disciples to have a
boat ready so the crowd would not crush him.
10 He had healed many people that day, so
all the sick people eagerly pushed forward to touch him.
11 And whenever those possessed by evil
spirits caught sight of him, the spirits would throw them to the ground in
front of him shrieking, “You are the Son of God!”
12 But Jesus sternly commanded the spirits
not to reveal who he was.
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