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126. The Servant of All's Second Prediction

Mark 9:14-32, Mark 9:33-37

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Richard A. Jensen

... has foretold (Mark 14:29-31, 66-72). Nevertheless! Nevertheless, the Risen Jesus sends word for Peter and the others to meet him in Galilee as he had promised. (See Mark 14:28; 16:7.) The concluding verses of today's text show Jesus in dialogue with the disciples concerning their "glory thinking," i.e., which one of them is the greatest. "Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all" (Mark 9:35). Jesus goes on to say to them that the kingdom of God is about welcoming children. In ancient ...

127. The Healing Of Simon Peter's Mother-In-Law

Mark 1:29-34

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Dallas A. Brauninger

... the fever leaves. In all three versions, she wastes no time returning to her work. According to Luke, she rises "immediately" and returns to her task as homemaker and host (Luke 4:39). Mark 1:31 and Luke 4:39 tell that she begins to serve the disciples as if she were focusing upon her homemaking role. All in one continual sentence, Matthew says Jesus touches her hand, the fever leaves her, she rises and she begins to serve Jesus as if in response to the healing (Matthew 8:15). 1. For a fuller discussion ...

128. A Word For All Reasons

John 20:19-23

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John M. Braaten

... had risen he would have certainly have contacted them by now. As it was, there was no evidence of Jesus' body, dead or alive. To make matters worse, there were stories being spread throughout the land that the Jewish leaders had ordered the arrest and death of all the disciples, in order that this religious menace might be put to an end, once and for all. So each man in turn, as he paces the floor, mindlessly checks the lock on the door and the latches of the windows, just to be sure they are secure. It is ...

129. Easter 2

John 20:24-31, John 20:19-23, 1 Peter 1:1-12, Acts 2:14-41, Psalm 16:1-11

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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... 1:3-9 probes the important role of faith in the larger context of Christ's work of salvation, where faith is both God's gift to us and our response to God. John 20:19-31 is a story that outlines the changing nature of faith when future disciples will no longer be able tosee the risen Lord. 1 Peter 1:3-9 - "Faith as Gift and Responsibility" Setting. All of the epistle lessons throughout this season of Easter are from I Peter. First Peter can be separated into four sections: a salutation (1:1-2), a baptismal ...

130. Are You a Lemming or a Lassie?

Luke 12:13-21, Luke 12:22-34, Luke 12:35-48, Luke 12:49-53, Luke 12:54-59

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Lori Wagner

... shock. But also a sense of mission. It was up to them to save the day. Up to them to lead people into the ways that were right, teach them God’s true will, not the ways of the Pharisees. Only they could do this. So, in a sense, the disciples are Jesus’ Lassies in a lemming world that knew no better than to follow everything the Pharisees told them to do. And with this talk, Jesus lays his “yoke” upon them and bids them to get ready to go, proclaim, correct, save. He wouldn’t be around much longer ...

131. Partners With the Eternal

Matthew 14:13-21

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... in the world today - and he invites us to join him. But, you say, perhaps there isn't much I can do, there isn't much that I can bring, my talents are small, my resources few. Well, be reminded, my friend, this is precisely what those ancient disciples believed when they brought to Jesus their five loaves and two fish. But they did bring them - this is the important thing: they did bring those loaves and fish. And they were surprised. And you may be too - when you bring what you've got, however small and ...

132. Come From Anywhere

Matthew 15:21-28

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... But the woman does not accept this; she will not believe it; she will not give up. She runs forward, kneels before Jesus, pleading, "Lord, help me." Again (I believe), Jesus looks from the corner of his eye to see what effect all of this is having on those disciples standing close by. Then, speaking so that all may hear, he says, "It is not fair to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs." And Peter and Andrew and all the rest (I think) are whispering and saying among themselves: See, just as we ...

133. John 15:9-17

John 15:9-17

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Leonard Sweet

... orderings" of this Discourse into 13:1-30a; 15:1-27; 16:1-33; 13:30b-38; 14:1-31; 17:1-26. Most recent scholarship, however, is much more inclined to conclude that John had access to two different accounts of Jesus' final discourse to his disciples. Unwilling to omit one or judge one version superior to the other, the gospel writer simply included both as one long discourse and left in the now awkward-sounding first ending in 14:30-31, which makes the two traditions more obvious. Today's verses are actually ...

134. Mark 9:30-37

Mark 9:30-37

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Leonard Sweet

... in this formal setting, Jesus' words are even more surprising. To those tempted in the future to proclaim greatness for themselves, Jesus now teaches "whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all." Jesus' lesson turns all the disciples' arguments about "who is greatest" to dust. The preening pride of these "chosen" twelve must have cracked and splintered badly at his words. Were they, his select group of teachers and preachers, expected to become "servants" to all? The fact that Jesus is ...

135. Any Given Sunday

Acts 2:41-47

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James Merritt

... Acts- Chapter 2. They are all right here before us. I. The Community Abstains From The Church Jesus Christ had predicted before He died that He would build His church. The church is actually born in the first chapter of the Book of Acts. When all the disciples who believed in Jesus and His resurrection were gathered together and the Holy Spirit of God came upon all of them and the church was then formed. Just like we read in the first four verses. "When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together ...

136. Touched

John 20:24-31

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Leonard Sweet

... . We are touched by our limitations. We are touched by our gifts. We are touched by abilities and disabilities. Yet we need to be “touched” even more elementally than this: if we follow Jesus, we are deeply “touched” because Jesus’ first invitation to his disciples was to touch him. Touch his wounds. Touch his weakness. Touch his body. We who have been touched from on high by the fires of the Almighty ought to be fired up. We who have “touched” and been “touched” by the Savior ought to ...

137. God’s Two Hands

John 16:5-16

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Leonard Sweet

... one who was the “moreh dereck,” the “teacher of the way,” needed to move on, to accomplish his mission and sacrifice, and so to open the way for the next great teacher — the Paraclete, the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, to be with all who would call themselves disciples. In other words, Tag, you’re it. Jesus and the Holy Spirit are a tag-team match. Or in a better and more ancient metaphor, the Son and the Spirit are God’s two hands. God has two hands: The Son and the Spirit. Together they are an ...

138. The Nano-Punch of Pentecost

Matthew 28:16-20

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Leonard Sweet

... , spreading that good news of the power of the risen Christ to any and all. A commission to mission is the reason that Matthew’s gospel ends as it does. A commission to mission is the last message Jesus gives to his disciples. His first century disciples, and his twenty-first century disciples. Isn’t this our mission statement. Do we really need another? There is an old story of a seminarian who had two elementary age boys. One day, to help his wife, he took the boys with him for a burial service in ...

139. Jesus and the High Priest

John 18:15-18, John 18:25-27, John 18:19-24

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... . 13 (cf. the terminology of 20:2, 3, 4, 8). But the best manuscripts have it indefinite, as NIV suggests. It was probably this verse that gave rise to later traditions that John the Gospel writer was himself a priest (Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 2.31.3). The disciple mentioned here was probably not a Galilean, and not necessarily one of the Twelve, but a resident of Jerusalem who had come to believe in Jesus (cf., e.g., 11:45; 12:11). He is the “narrator” at this point to the extent that some of ...

140. The Resurrected Jesus Is Vindicated by God and Given All Authority

Matthew 28:1-10, Matthew 28:11-15, Matthew 28:16-20

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Jeannine K. Brown

... at the end of chapter 27, including the presence of certain women at the cross and the tomb (27:56, 61; 28:1), the placing of guards at the tomb (27:62–66; 28:4), and an earthquake (27:51–52; 28:2). The women and the eleven disciples encounter the risen Jesus and worship him (28:9, 17), concluding the Gospel as it began, with worship of Jesus (2:2, 11). In the final scene Matthew asserts that Jesus, who has demonstrated messianic authority in his healings and miracles (e.g., chaps. 8–9), now is ...

141. The High Priest Questions Jesus

John 18:19-24, John 18:15-18, John 18:25-27

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

142. How to Motivate People

Matthew 10:1-42, Matthew 9:18-26

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Stephen M. Crotts

... twelve people in whose lives you are intimately involved, with whom you are directly available? Why, the most of us would be hard-pressed to point to six much less twelve. The fact is, life being what it is, and people being who they are, one man cannot disciple more than a dozen people at a time. The principle here is this: We must narrow our focus to a dozen or less people or our energies will be dissipated to nothingness. Why These Dozen Men? Christ did the choosing. He narrowed it down to twelve men ...

143. Luke 24:13-35

Luke 24:13-35

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Leonard Sweet

... and despair to a more informed understanding of Jesus’ identity, and a newly re-formed community of faith. The journey from Jerusalem to Emmaus, and back again, may have been only a short distance physically. But it was a journey that took the disciples a lifetime to make, in the process moving them all into newer dimensions of discipleship. Luke carefully notes this trip to Emmaus took place on “that same day.” That is, that same “third day” in which the empty tomb was discovered and the ...

144. God’s Miraculous Provision: Caring for the Needy

Mark 6:30-44

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Grant R. Osborne

... :45–52] connected to that of the Pharisees [7:1–23]); then faith, seen in the Syrophoenician woman and the deaf mute (7:24–37); and then back to failure, with a chiastic reversal from the failure of the leaders (8:11–13) connected to the failure of the disciples (8:14–21). The two in the middle section (7:24–37) introduce us to the “little people”1in Mark, those characters we meet only once in the book yet who show the true path to discipleship (also 5:18–19, 32–34; 9:14–29; 10:45–52 ...

145. The Good Life

Luke 6:17-26

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R.T. France

... Blessed are” and “Woe to” set out respectively the way to be embraced and the way to be avoided, and the following “for” clauses spell out what is to be the outcome of those choices. These are the reasons why it is worthwhile to be a disciple, despite the hardships that this brings. Luke is unusual in spelling out the negative alongside the positive by including four balancing woes. Interpretive Insights 6:17 stood on a level place. Luke uses in 6:12 the same phrase that Matthew 5:1 uses for ...

146. The Parable of the Sower

Mark 4:1-20

Understanding Series

Larry W. Hurtado

... recognized and received for what it really is. 4:13 Don‘t you understand? This statement does not appear in the parallels in Matt. 13:16–23 or Luke 8:11–15. Instead, in Matt. 13:16–17 there is a very positive word about the privilege of the disciples, which appears also in Luke 10:23–24, and which seems similar in content to Mark 4:11–12 and the parallels (Matt. 13:11 and Luke 8:10). In general, both Matthew and Luke are less severe in their treatment of the Twelve. The reason is probably that ...

147. The Man Born Blind

John 9:1-12

Drama

Dallas A. Brauninger

... said to Achan, 'My son, give glory to the Lord God of Israel and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done; do not hide it from me'" (Joshua 7:19). No cross-references for verses 25-27. Then they reviled him, saying, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses."28 [Jesus said,] "Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; your accuser is Moses, on whom you have set your hope" (John 5:45). "We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where ...

148. Outsiders and Insiders: A Gospel Surprise

Mark 9:38-41

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Richard A. Jensen

... while Jesus seeks to teach them about the cross. Their concern is only with themselves. "Who among us is the greatest?" is the best they can do after hearing Jesus' second "passion/resurrection" prediction (Mark 9:33-34). Today's text picks up at this point. The disciples have heard Jesus say that the greatest in the reign of God must be last of all and servant of all. Immediately they do the opposite. They proceed to prohibit one of these servants of God's reign from casting out demons. In Mark 10:13-16 ...

149. A Daughter of Jacob

Matthew 15:21-28

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Richard Hoefler

... principle which Christ had just presented. It is an example in a real-life situation of what it means to be clean before God. The example which Jesus chooses is a strange and even shocking one. The woman is a Gentile, a foreigner. In the eyes of the Jewish disciples, she was an outcast. She was not a member of God’s chosen race. She did not know the law or obey it. She was a representative of the unclean Gentile world and yet Jesus used her as an example of religious cleanliness. He had by-passed his own ...

150. John 15:9-17

John 15:9-17

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Leonard Sweet

... greatest there could ever be, the love that offers itself as sacrifice for the beloved. There is nothing trivial or incidental about the designation "friend" when it comes from Jesus' lips. The direct implication of verses 12-14 means that if the disciples obey Jesus' commandments, they are by definition his friends. As his friends Jesus will gladly give his life to save theirs. Throughout his gospel John employs two different verbs for love agapao and philio which he uses synonymously. The Greek for the ...

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