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The Forty-nine Steps 11 - 20: Step 16
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The Forty-nine Steps 11 - 20. Mark 6:1-13 The Hometown Carpenter. Mark is more concerned to show the real problems that all apostles face, and in his practical fashion does so with less words and more examples. Verse 11 has the words. The surrounding examples are of Jesus (Mark 6:1-6) and then John the Baptist (see the next section, Mark 6:14-29), each in their own way rejected for being sent by God. Ible: Mark 6:1-13, The Rejection of Jesus at Nazareth. What is this wisdom that has been given to him?
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The Forty-nine Steps 11 - 20: Step 17
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The Forty-nine Steps 11 - 20. Mark 6:14-29 Was it a Wasted Life. In today's story Mark draws attention to Herod's crazy promise. To Herodias by repeating it. "The king said to the girl, 'Ask me whatever you. Wish and I will give it.' And he solemnly swore to her, 'Whatever you ask. Me, I will give you, even half of my kingdom'.". Such a promise was obviously immoderate and ridiculous. Mark shows us. Here what he thinks about a later request made to Jesus in very similar terms, when. Omment: WAS IT A WAST...
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The Forty-nine Steps 11 - 20: Step 14
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The Forty-nine Steps 11 - 20. Mark 5:21-34 Faith Gets His Attention. The importance of women in the ministry of Jesus might go unnoticed. To us, but certainly not to Mark's first readers. Mark gives high and. Unusual prominence to women throughout his story; perhaps reflecting the. Honour given to his mother by the early Christians. This occurs again and again, and. Especially in events surrounding Christ's death and resurrection. Such prejudice and discrimination, where men and women were segregated.
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The Forty-nine Steps 21 - 30: Step 26
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The Forty-nine Steps 21 - 30. Mark 9:2-13 This is My Son; Listen to Him! Unlike the other two synoptic Gospels, and Acts, Mark's Gospel will. Not report a final scene of ascension, where Jesus is exalted to sit at the right. Hand of God - where he now rules in majesty as King of Kings. Yet this is a crucial. Aspect of any written Gospel, or presentation of the Christian good news. A Christian recognises that Jesus is the ruler of all things. We live now as subjects. Ible: Mark 9:2-13, The Transfiguration.
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The Forty-nine Steps 21 - 30: Step 29
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The Forty-nine Steps 21 - 30. Mark 9:38-50 A Supporter or a Stumbler. Like a previous example, the words of verses 44 and 46 of today's. Reading are omitted because they are absent from the earliest manuscripts. They exactly repeated verse 48, which is authentic. While hell has attracted all manner of false myths, it was in fact the garbage dump of Jerusalem. The Greek word is Ge-henna, meaning Valley of Hinnom, a. Place where the fire smouldered continuously and worms degraded whatever was. Have salt in...
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The Forty-nine Steps 31 - 40: Step 39
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The Forty-nine Steps 31 - 40. Mark 13:1-23; 32-37 Take Care! We have frequently observed connections in Mark's story with. The earlier history of God's revelation documented in the Old Testament. Mark was profoundly aware that the events he reported, were signficant in. A scope of time much greater than his own, perhaps even greater than he could contemplate. Already God's interventions in human history had spanned very many centuries,. Many more. Could they have anticipated over two millenia? Equally cu...
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The Forty-nine Steps 21 - 30: Step 25
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The Forty-nine Steps 21 - 30. Not Seeing Things Clearly. The text and explanation below show how this section is central to Mark's Gospel. It occurs at approximately the middle page of his Gospel. The spiraling structure of the series of events beginning at Mark 6:30 comes to its climax here, with Peter's recognition of Jesus as the Messiah, the Saviour long predicted in the Old Testament. This is the response Mark has been hoping his readers will make to the evidence placed before them. 22 They came to ...
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The Forty-nine Steps 11 - 20: Step 20
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The Forty-nine Steps 11 - 20. Mark 7:1-23 Cardiac contamination. You will notice in this section how Mark inserts in verses 3 and 4. An explanation of Jewish customs for his Roman readers. The Christian. Message was already spreading far and wide, and many Christian communities. Would soon be formed around the Mediterranean world. Mark comments on. How the teaching of Jesus affected Jewish traditions which regarded pork as unclean. Known as the canon (measure) of the New Testament. Modern translators thi...
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The Forty-nine Steps 1 - 10: Step 9
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The Forty-nine Steps 1 - 10. Mark 3:7-35 The Crowds Around Christ. Today's section of Mark mentions the so-called "unpardonable sin" -. Which has often troubled people. Pay careful attention to the words of Jesus. Verse 28 confirms that "all sins can be forgiven". There is no such thing as an. Unpardonable sin. The topic is introduced here because, as verse 30 states, some people. Were saying that Jesus had an evil spirit (see also verse 22). At the beginning of his Gospel Mark had described Jesus being.
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The Forty-nine Steps 41 - 49: Step 49
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The Forty-nine Steps 41 - 49. Mark 16:1-8 A Hair-raising "He Is Risen! The earliest versions of Mark's Gospel conclude as we have, at vs.8, the day the resurrection is discovered in Jerusalem. The other three Gospels, and other endings later attached to Mark, take the story onwards to other events, both in Jerusalem and Galilee (see 7) in the seven weeks leading up to Pentecost. Ible: Mark 16:1-8, The Resurrection of Jesus. 1 When the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Sa...
