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Mark 5:21-43

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... on what she hears and knows of Jesus. Although it was a serious violation of Jewish law for her to approach Jesus in her state, Mark portrays her act as a sign of faith. Immediately she is healed from her long-incurable disease. Like the man in 3:1–6, in ... the life of Jairus’s daughter. “Why bother the teacher anymore?” ask Jairus’s servants (5:35). In the Greek, Mark’s description of Jesus’s response is masterful. The word parakouō (NIV “overhearing”) can mean (1) to overhear something ...

452. The Triumphal Entry

Mark 11:1-11

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... describes in 11:1. The Mount of Olives runs on a north-south axis east of Jerusalem, and its summit, three hundred feet higher and less than a mile distant, affords a breathtaking view of the holy city. Mark, who seldom mentions place names, may mention the Mount of Olives because of its association in Judaism with the coming of the Messiah and the final judgment (Ezek. 11:23; Zech. 14:4; Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 20.169). From the summit of the Mount of Olives, Jesus sends two unnamed ...

453. Jesus' Death

Mark 15:33-41

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... ) before the Court of Israel (where Jewish males worshiped), and a smaller curtain before the inviolable Most Holy Place, into which the chief priest entered only on the Day of Atonement. Both curtains are rich in symbolism, although it is unclear which Mark intends. Mark’s vocabulary may favor the smaller curtain, since the term he uses refers throughout the New Testament only to the curtain before the Most Holy Place. If this curtain is intended, then the cross of Jesus signifies the true and final Day ...

454. John the Baptist Beheaded

Matthew 14:1-12

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... reluctance to carry out the execution is pictured by Matthew as well (v. 9). There is no question that both Herod and Herodias wanted to be rid of the prophet, although Herod is the one who is a bit reluctant. Green’s opinion that Mark’s version (adapted by Matthew) “rests on popular tradition, not to say bazaar gossip” and is therefore “no more reliable in its details than such sources generally are” (p. 139) is unnecessarily harsh. 14:1–5 Matthew correctly identifies Herod as the tetrarch of ...

455. Signs of the End of the Age

Matthew 24:1-35

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... in reference to false teachers rather than in the midst of persecution (p. 451). 24:15 “The abomination that causes desolation”: For a rather complete survey of the various ways in which this figure has been interpreted, see G. R. Beasley-Murray, A Commentary on Mark Thirteen, pp. 59–72. Beare says that “the desolating sacrilege—to bdelygma tēs erēmōseōs is a more or less literal rendering (LXX) of a Hebrew phrase of Daniel, shiqūts shomēm. The Hebrew phrase is itself a contemptuous play on ...

456. The Resurrection

Matthew 28:1-10

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... “overpassed the heavens”). A voice from heaven asked if he had preached to those that sleep and is answered in the affirmative by the cross (10:39–42). 28:1–10 At dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James (cf. Mark 16:1) went to the tomb where Jesus had been buried. The Greek text has been interpreted to mean either late on the Sabbath when the first day of the week was about to begin (hence, Saturday evening) or late in the night after the Sabbath when the new ...

457. The Transfiguration

Mark 9:2-13

Understanding Series

Larry W. Hurtado

... in 8:38–9:1 (cf. Luke 9:28, “about eight days”). The mention of six days is, however, also very likely an allusion to Exodus 24:15, where after six days, Moses is summoned to a mountaintop and is given a revelation of God. We have already seen how Mark alludes to the OT to elucidate the significance of the events he recounts. Here the point of the allusion is to alert the reader that what is about to take place is a manifestation of God (a theophany) like that mentioned in Exodus 24:15–18 and that a ...

458. The Resurrection

Luke 24:1-12

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... been raised, but the apostles do not. It will take “many convincing proofs” (Acts 1:3) before they will be persuaded. Some of these proofs Luke will provide in the remaining paragraphs of chap. 24. Additional Notes 24:1 the women … went to the tomb: Luke omits Mark’s report of the women wondering how the stone will be rolled aside for them. Luke may have sensed a difficulty in this, but since the stone will be found rolled aside anyway (v. 2), he elected to abbreviate his account at this point. 24:2 ...

459. The Rich Ruler

Luke 18:18-30

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... he is good only because he is himself God. 18:20 You know the commandments: When asked the same question in 10:25 Jesus gives a different answer (see 10:26–28). How to account for the differing ordering of the commandments is not easy. Matthew follows Mark, but Luke reverses murder and adultery; while all three Synoptic Gospels differ from the order found in the OT. 18:21 since I was a boy: The rich ruler claims to have observed the commandments faithfully since he had come of legal age (Fitzmyer, p. 1200 ...

460. John Mellencamp and the Danger of Procrastination

Mark 1:14-20

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King Duncan

... too wet to work on!” (2) Those of you who are homeowners know the perils of allowing home maintenance to slide. But that’s true in all of life: In the things that really matter, there is a need to act with urgency. Consider our lesson for today from Mark’s Gospel. Mark tells us that Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, when he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people ...

461. The Ultimate Mountaintop Experience

Mark 9:2-9

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King Duncan

... a voice: “This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him!” Peter, James and John did listen to his voice and we revere their names to this day. Listening to Christ and obeying his leading is the key to a satisfying and effective life. Mark closes his report of this experience on the mountaintop with these words, “Suddenly, when they looked around, they no longer saw anyone with them except Jesus.” Jesus was all they had and Jesus was all they needed. When they gave him their undivided attention, their ...

462. Fish Tales

Luke 24:36b-48

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John Jamison

... has written something difficult knows the experience he was having sitting there. But Luke had an advantage that many writers do not have. Someone had already taken a shot at writing the story he had to write, trying to sell the same idea he had to sell. He actually had Mark’s copy of the story there on the desk with him, and he copied pieces from it to help with his own version of the story. At that time, copying from another writer was not seen as a bad thing but was a way to use the earlier writer’s ...

463. Family Ties and Good-byes

Mark 3:31-35

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Ron Lavin

... would be less danger than in the city of Jerusalem. Whether Jesus went to the home where he was raised and worked, to a neighbor's house in Nazareth, or just into a house in the area of his hometown is incidental to our story. The point Mark's gospel makes is that Jesus was somewhere near where family and longtime friends lived and trouble was about to burst forth. After a sojourn into Egypt to avoid trouble, conflict, and possible death, Joseph and Mary had settled in the territory of Galilee, in the town ...

464. A Non-anxious Presence

Mark 4:35-41

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Dean Feldmeyer

... . Interestingly, this is exactly where we find Jesus in this week’s gospel lection. All in the Same Boat This little story which Mark has given to us is not so much a story about Jesus as a parable about the nature of faith and its relationship ... with teaching parables. It bids us to keep our eyes and minds open for more teaching as is usually the case in Mark’s gospel, the miracles are not merely demonstrations of power. They are more often demonstrations of meaning and occasions for teaching and ...

465. More Than Enough

John 6:1-21

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Dean Feldmeyer

... also have to keep more food than they need on hand so they can meet all of the demands. Ten percent of all food cooked in fast food restaurants is thrown away before it is served because of time limits. (McDonalds throws away fries at the seven-minute mark.) 6) Households: American families throw out between 14% and 25% of the food and beverages they buy. This can cost the average family from $1,365 to $2,275 annually. A big factor here is that food has become so cheap and readily available that people feel ...

466. Down by the Riverside

Mark 1:4-11 · Genesis 1:1-5

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... Christ and brighten the world. And to Jesus, just like a father bursting at the seams with pride, God said, "I'm proud of you, Son." Mark 1:11 tells us: "And a voice came from heaven, 'You are my Beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.'" The whole world was moved. ... to spend the next 3 months in jail. (3) Life has its odd twists and turns. Baptism won't solve all your problems. But it will mark you as one of God's. It will help you to know that you are accepted and loved by God even in the midst of those ...

467. Not Guessing

Mark 10:46-52

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Frank Ramirez

... Jerusalem triumphantly for a week of glory, gory death, and resurrection. Soon the crowds will hail him with cries of “Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the coming kingdom of our ancestor David! Hosanna in the highest heaven (Mark 11:9-10)!” This blind man begs money from travelers who pass him where he rests on the roadside. He is seated by the road along an important trade route, and also just outside the last stop for pilgrims on their way to the holy city. It ...

468. The Teacher

Mark 1:21-28

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Will Willimon

... if you compare standing up and giving a lecture to folk in a synagogue with some of other things Jesus did -- like stilling a storm on the sea, or curing a blind man, or raising a young girl from the dead -- this may seem unimpressive. Even when Mark tells us that- all who heard his teaching ''were astounded'' because ''he taught them as one having authority,'' well, a good lesson, even a well taught lesson is not so impressive. But the class is about to get more interesting. A man barges into the synagogue ...

469. For Someone Who Will Be Terribly Missed

Isaiah 43:1-5 · Job 19:23-27

Eulogy

Richard E. Zajac

... fingers across Tessie’s name on her mausoleum crypt, there would come the memory of a nurse par excellence who left an indelible mark upon her patients, not to mention Sisters Hospital, the place where she applied her craft. If anyone was born to be a nurse ... at motherhood as she was at nursing, who made it a point to plant in her children the same kindness and compassion that so marked her nursing life. Tessie, as many of you know, worked the night shift and so she’d often be coming home just when her ...

470. Look How You Listen

Mark 6:14-29

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George W. Hoyer

... to take anything else from John, still, the lesson today might be said to be not so much about John as it is about us. It is about us and how we hear. The dramatic and tragic details are all about the beheading of John the Baptist, but, it seems, Mark supplies that account only to explain Herod's reaction to what he was hearing about Jesus. That is the clue that today's message for us might well be what our Lord himself once said: "Take heed how ye hear." Look how you listen. Use your head to listen or ...

471. Service And Reward

Matthew 20:1-16

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William E. Keeney

... they have done but just for who they are and because of his graciousness. The second is the healing of two blind men in Jericho whom the crowd tried to exclude by admonishing them to be quiet. (Matthew 20:19-34; only one blind person in Mark and Luke: Mark 10:46-52, Luke 18:35-43.) The blind man, once healed, immediately becomes a follower of Jesus out of gratitude for the blessing of sight that he received. The context also includes the request of the mother of James and John to seek a privileged position ...

472. For I Have Chosen You!

Haggai 2:20-23

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Frank Ramirez

... people to get up and do something. Build the temple. See what happens. We do not believe we are saved by works. Yet there's no question that it's hard for us to believe while lying on our backs and moping. We are God's people, wearing God's mark for all the world to see. Get up and do something to build his kingdom. His grace saves you, not your works, but it is surprising how works can help you say, "I believe," by making you look beyond yourself to something greater. You can see the communion of saints ...

473. The Compassionate Highway

Mark 6:30-44

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Leonard H. Budd

... today's scripture reading concludes with the general word about the crowds coming to Jesus for healing. Their faith was so strong that some begged "to be allowed to touch even the tassel of his robe; and all who touched it were restored to health." Those are Mark's words. Such was the faith in God's power through Jesus that even to touch the little prayer shawl tassel would bring healing. We do not need to understand, with our scientific mind set, all the ways by which healing took place 2,000 years ago ...

474. Maundy Thursday/Holy Thursday

John 13:1-17, Exodus 12:1-30, 1 Corinthians 11:17-34, John 13:31-38

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Russell F. Anderson

... This action serves as a great teaching moment. The disciples of Jesus are not to lord it over others but stoop to serve others, as the Lord has served them. THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS Old Testament: Exodus 12:1-14 A new year (vv. 1-2). The Passover marked a new way of measuring time and looking at time. God's great act of redemption was the birthing point for the Hebrew nation. Older calendars followed the agricultural cycles. The Jews came to realize that the times of their lives did not revolve around nature ...

475. All Saints' Sunday

Jn 11:32-44 · Mt 5:1-12 · Isa 25:6-9 · Rev 7:9-17; 21:1-6 · Ps 24

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Russell F. Anderson

... elect wear white robes, cleansed by the blood of Christ. Those at a commencement might sing a school song and those in the heavenly commencement sing a song of salvation and praise. Outline: The heavenly scene features all those who have received a passing mark (v. 3). The mark was awarded not because of their goodness but because they clung to God's grace. The privilege of wearing the white robe, like studying for a degree, goes to those who endure. Life is an ordeal which tries our faith (v. 14). Heaven ...

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