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Luke 22:66--23:25, Luke 22:63-65, Luke 22:54-62

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R.T. France

... as 10:22. You say that I am. This reply is positive, without being quite straightforward, as in 23:3 (cf. Matt. 26:64; 27:11; Mark 15:2). It should probably be taken as a “Yes, but . . .”: Jesus accepts the words that they have used, but not the meaning that they ... declares the ultimate truth about him. His imminent death, which was supposed to put an end to his claims, will in fact mark the inauguration of his reign at God’s right hand, “from now on.” Teaching the Text Luke has placed side by side ...

252. The Crucifixion

Mark 15:21-32

Understanding Series

Larry W. Hurtado

... this King of Israel, wording that both indicates that the two terms Christ and King of Israel are synonyms here and reflects the Jewish equivalent of the Roman derision that hung on Jesus’ cross, The King of the Jews (v. 26, and see notes). If we understand Mark’s use of irony here, we can see that he wants his readers to realize that Jesus truly is the king of Israel, the Messiah from God, even though the crucifixion seems to contradict every known form of Jewish expectation about what the path of the ...

253. Family Ties And Unties

Mark 3:20-35

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David Coffin

... win, but to shame the opposing team. It is like rubbing their face in the defeat. This does not have to be the case. One can oppose somebody’s ideas without striving to “demonize” them, as the scribes are attempting to do with Jesus here in Mark 3. More positive examples of athletic competition include when a particular team is hurt or has lost loved ones. The 1970 movie We Are Marshall was about Marshall University’s football team and coaches getting killed in an air disaster, and the new coach who ...

254. Resist Temptation

Mark 1:9-13

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Harry N. Huxhold

... lines had to be drawn between the one who thought he was holding sway in the world, the pretender to the throne of God, the Evil One, and the One who had come not only to challenge him but to empty him of his false powers. The Forty Days Mark cites the fact that Jesus was in the wilderness "forty days." More than likely, what comes to your mind is the fact that the Children of Israel were in the wilderness forty years. The forty days could, therefore, be reminiscent of those forty years and symbolic of that ...

255. Table Manners

Mark 2:18-22, Mark 2:13-17

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Richard A. Jensen

... calls us to discipleship still today, we might say. Follow me. Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow! "Those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it" (see Mark 8:34-35). Jesus has another word for us today as well. "Come to me," he says. Come with your feelings that the hidden powers of this world have invaded your life. Come and hear Jesus say: "Come out." Come with the uncleanness that mars your life. Come and ...

256. Deliverance: The Forgotten Third of Jesus' Ministry

Mark 9:14-32

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Stephen M. Crotts

... 10:13.) He oppresses. This is a temptation often succumbed to which forms a bad habit. Second Corinthians 10:4 calls it a "stronghold." Then there is possession which is to be invaded, lived in, and controlled by evil. This can happen to people (Mark 5), animals (Mark 5 and Genesis 3), and even nature, as in lightning, wind, and storms (Job 1-2). In using his three powers of tempting, oppressing, and possessing, Satan is 100 percent bent on destroying Christ and his works. He follows no rules and is no ...

257. When You Are Wrongly Criticized

Mark 3:20-30

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Leonard Sweet

... it. They attack it. Today’s narrative begins with a “focus on the family.” But it is not a pretty picture. Mark is the only gospel that records this extreme judgment and reaction expressed by Jesus’ family. The term translated in v. 21 ... offers the first of yet another of his distinctive sayings — an inclusive “gnomic” utterance that begins with “whoever” or “if anyone” (see Mark 9:37-40; 10:29-31; 10:43,45; 11:23). “Family” is now redefined as “whoever does the will of God.” ...

258. Getting to a Teachable Moment

Mark 15:1-15

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Craig MacCreary

... in the face of such obtuse behavior that Rome should be able to sort things out. That is what Rome does for a living and why it has developed a massive intelligence network. Standing right in front of him, Pilate can still not get who Jesus is. Mark has spun his narrative over fifteen chapters and we find ourselves back at the same place as those who were unable to puzzle out Jesus in Capernaum. “But Jesus made no further reply, so that Pilate was amazed.” Pilate comes up with a question that he thinks ...

259. Israel’s Ill-Placed Confidence

Amos 5:18-27

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... ; Joel 2:10; cf. 2:31; 3:15; Isa. 13:10)—a fact significant for the story in the NT of the crucifixion of Christ (Mark 15:33 and parallels). As our Lord says of his death, “Now is the judgment of this world, now shall the ruler of this world ... (Luke 4:18–19), Scripture is silent on how or if Israel observed this year. New Moon. The beginning of each month was marked with the sounding of trumpets, rejoicing, and sacrifices (Num. 10:10; 28:11–15). There is some indication that work was to be suspended ...

260. The Glory Departs

Ezekiel 8:1-18, Ezekiel 9:1-11, Ezekiel 10:1-22, Ezekiel 11:1-15, Ezekiel 11:16-25

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... society do not affect us—or that our own sins do not affect others. We are involved, indeed implicated, whether we wish to be or not. Why, then, does this text even mention the commission to the scribe angel? Is the whole business with the mark just a meaningless charade? It is possible that this motif serves to underline the justice of Jerusalem’s destruction: if no one in Jerusalem was innocent, if indeed no one in Jerusalem was even sorry for that city’s gross offenses against God, then the violent ...

261. The Christian Shema: Loving God and Neighbor

Mark 12:28-34

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Grant R. Osborne

... 7:13–14). This was not clarified until the teaching of Jesus and the New Testament writers. Jesus identified himself as the Danielic Son of Man (Mark 2:10, 28; 8:38; 13:26) and as the “I am” of Exodus 3:14 (John 8:24, 28, 58; 13:19), and he was ... God’s depth of love for us) is the key to both Judaism (the Shema [Deut. 6:4–5]) and to Christianity (the Christian Shema [Mark 12:30]). All worship in the end boils down to this essential reaction of love. The desire to live the Christian life flows out of ...

262. Preparation for Ministry

Mark 1:1-8

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Gary M. Burge

... .” Several verses in the Greek Old Testament use the term in this sense (1 Sam. 31:9; 2 Sam. 1:20; 1 Chron. 10:9), and even in the Greco-Roman world the birthday of Caesar Augustus (63 BC–AD 14) was hailed as “good news.” For Mark, the advent of Jesus is “good news” because it fulfills God’s release from sin and oppression and the proclamation of peace foretold by the prophet Isaiah (52:7; 61:1–3). The name Jesus in Hebrew (Yehoshua) means “God is salvation”; the name Christ—Greek for ...

263. A Prophet Without Honor

Mark 6:1-6

Understanding Series

Larry W. Hurtado

... the Sabbath in a synagogue (cf. 3:1–2; 6:1–2). In the former case the issue was healing on the Sabbath. Here it is a matter of an inability to believe that this “hometown boy” is anything special. But both incidents are really, from Mark’s viewpoint, examples of an unwillingness to recognize Jesus as the heaven-sent envoy of salvation. The material between 3:1–6 and the present episode in 6:1–6 describes various aspects of Jesus’ ministry: a general account (3:7–12), the selection of the ...

264. Jesus Walks On the Water

Mark 6:45-56

Understanding Series

Larry W. Hurtado

... title or formula of divine self-disclosure (e.g., Isa. 43:25; 48:12; 51:12, and see note), and it is likely that Mark’s readers were intended to catch the allusion to these OT passages in Jesus’ words and see the point that Jesus is speaking the ... to a town located on the plain (cf., e.g., Lane, p. 239, n. 127; “Galilee, Sea of,” IDB, vol. 2, pp. 348–50; MBA, 231). Mark does not explain why they wound up here if, as he says, they set out for Bethsaida (6:45), but it is often suggested that the wild ...

265. Jesus Clears the Temple

Mark 11:12-19

Understanding Series

Larry W. Hurtado

... will (11:15–17). Some scholars find in the story an allusion to such passages as Jeremiah 8:8–17 or Micah 7:1–6, which predict the destruction of Jerusalem and judgment upon Israel for the failure of her leaders to demonstrate faithfulness to God. Mark’s note that the disciples heard what Jesus said (v. 14) is designed to prepare for the discussion in 11:20–26 in which the sudden withering of the tree is noticed and forms the basis for Jesus’ exhortation about faith. 11:15–19 This is surely ...

266. Whose Son is the Christ?

Mark 12:35-40

Understanding Series

Larry W. Hurtado

... 2, pp. 407–17.) Ps. 110 is the most frequently used psalm in the NT, being cited or alluded to in Matt. 22:44; 26:64; Mark 12:36; 14:62; 16:19; Luke 20:42; 22:69; Acts 2:34; Rom. 2:5; 8:34; 11:29; 1 Cor. 15:25; Eph ... evidence does not treat Ps. 110 as a messianic prediction, but this evidence is all much later than the OT writings, and this passage in Mark could be seen as evidence that the Psalm was understood messianically in Jesus’ time; or this interpretation of Ps. 110 may have been original. Sit ...

267. Promises to Keep

Mark 6:14-29

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Dean Feldmeyer

... her chance and took it. “What shall I ask for?” the girl asked. Mother replied, “The head of John the Baptist.” The daughter wasted not a minute in returning to Herod. “I want you to give me, at once, the head of John the Baptist on a platter.” Mark told us that Herod was “deeply grieved yet, out of regard for his oaths and his guests, he did not want to refuse her.” He sent a member of his bodyguard with orders to see to the execution and when the head of the Baptist was brought forth, the ...

268. Immediately, They Followed

Mark 1:14-20

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Will Willimon

... followed -- as an act of impulse, without all the facts, stumbling after an enigmatic figure whom we hardly even know, much less where he is going. Our text begins, "Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God,…" Do you see what Mark has done? The story begins with a subtle detail, a mere mention of the arrest of John the Baptist. The mission on which Jesus is launched is one full of peril. John has been arrested. Soon he will be dead, his head on a platter. John is ...

269. Proper 15

Mt 15:21-28 · Ex 16:2-15 · Rom 11:13-16, 29-32 · Ps 78

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John R. Brokhoff

... daughter but on the mother. She is responsible for getting a miracle not for herself but for the child. What made her great - A. She had a great love for her child - v. 22 B. She had great humility - v. 27 C. She had great faith - v. 28 3. The Marks of a Miracle (15:21-28). This miracle was more than the healing of a daughter. In the account leading up to the healing we can see other miracles - A. Miracle of grace - mother was helped in spite of being a pagan, woman, gentile B. Miracle of humility - "crumbs ...

270. Advance into Europe

Acts 15:36-41

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CSS

... ’s place as a gospel writer and as a faithful disciple of Jesus is unsullied. Whatever the cause of his "desertion" at Perga, it may well have been justified. Mark’s long career is believed to have included a final period as bishop of the church at Ephesus. Paul watched Barnabas and Mark sail off for Cyprus and realized that it would be needless for him to revisit the churches there. He therefore teamed up with Silas, one of the men who had been sent from Jerusalem to deliver the decision of the council ...

271. Sorry, The Doctor's Been Delayed

John 11:1-16

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King Duncan

... moved from one place to another. It seemed that everything made him sick, from cleansers, to lawn fertilizers. Eventually he got so bad that he had to sleep in his car in the hills. By the spring of 1980 he reached his lowest point. "Everything is hopeless," Mark wrote in his journal. "I want to die. Why must I suffer on and on and on? God help me please." Things continued to get worse. His prayer was answered the next summer. "I felt myself lifted on eagles’ wings," he wrote. "I seemed to soar beyond ...

272. A Way Made Ready

Mark 1:1-8

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Darrick Acre

... ourselves. The way where we learn that we gain purpose, meaning, and significance in our lives when we stop trying to create our own way and receive the Lord’s will for us, which is the way of Christ. This is a driving motif in the entire gospel of Mark, which climaxes as Jesus is going through the city of Jericho on His way to Jerusalem (10:46-52). Jesus passes by the beggars that line the way of a typical Judean city. There are men and women who are blind, lame, deformed, deaf and mute. Their handicaps ...

273. Stone Testaments

Deuteronomy 26:1-11

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Leonard Sweet

... your head in prayer, and for each one of you to revisit your past and find some milestone in your life that hasn't been marked, some memory in your life that hasn't been remembered. Look inside and ask yourself what in your past may be keeping you from ... to ask you to take your flower (stone) and to go to someplace or someone in this sanctuary, deposit your flower (stone) and say, "I mark you as a milestone in my life." You may want to kneel at that spot and pray silently. You may wish to hug that person ...

274. The Shared Life of the People of God

Galatians 6:1-10

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Maxie Dunnam

... had a lot of honors in my life, more than I deserve, but no honor has exceeded the honor those young people paid me. I miss the mark of the high calling of Christ much of the time in my life. I am rather tough on myself and know that I often fall far short ... peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God. From now on let no one trouble me, for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus. Brethren, the g of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit Amen.” (Gal. 6:16-18). Paul began his letter with ...

275. When Others Serve Your Head on a Platter

Mark 6:14-29

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Leonard Sweet

... ’s whim that has his severed head displayed like some zombie-fest tidbit. Herod Antipas hates doing this to John. But not as much as he hates endangering his own position of power and prestige by not honoring his foolish oath to a teenaged dancer. Mark’s text doesn’t discuss the relationship between Herod Antipas and John the Baptist. John was a prisoner, but apparently Herod was his audience on a semi-regular basis. Herod “liked to listen to him.” Yet it was his royal edict that silenced John’s ...

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