Route 66: The Gospel Of Mark
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Transcript
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Major Theme
Major Theme
Jesus the servant King
Notice how often the crowds surround him
Focus on the person and work of Jesus
The gospel of immediacy
The cross cast a shadow across the entire gospel
This gospel is always moving toward something
The cross is the gravitational pull
Insiders and outsiders
Those who will be part of the kingdom those who wont
Command to silence
Mark continues to point toward the tell no one
There is plan in the revelation
He is not a wonder worker only
We need to get to the cross to see the whole story
The Audience
The Audience
The Roman Citizen
People with a show me attitude
People less acquainted with the scriptures
The Author
The Author
John Mark
Most likely an understudy of Peter
Barnabas’s cousin
Regarded as useful for service by Paul
The Action Gospel
The Action Gospel
A brief Introduction
A brief Introduction
1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. 2 As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way, 3 the voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,’ ” 4 John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. 5 And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. 6 Now John was clothed with camel’s hair and wore a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey. 7 And he preached, saying, “After me comes he who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. 8 I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.” 9 In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. 10 And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. 11 And a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.” 12 The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. 13 And he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. And he was with the wild animals, and the angels were ministering to him.
Mark 1:1-13.
A royal proclamation about the purpose of this gospel
Specifically the gospel of Jesus Christ
This good news is something the reader would already be familiar with
The cesars used this same terminology
John prepares the way
The Father approves
The spirit rest upon him
The stage is set for our main character to take over
This is again an instance of move quickly don’t tell me show me
Notice no acknowledgment of Christ victory over satan in the wilderness
Mark will show us that he was victorious
Something that will be played out all the way to the cross
The authority of the servant King
The authority of the servant King
Mark 1:14-5:43.
Authority to call men (Mark 1:6-20; 2:13-14; 3:13-19)
Authority over demons (Mark 1:21-28, 3:11, 20-30, 5:1-20)
Authority over sickness (Mark 1:29-34)
Notice Mark 1:34
34 And he healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons. And he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him.
Jesus Healed sick and casted out demons
Why not let the demons speak?
Why not let men know he healed them”
Authority over sin (Mark 2:1-12)
The challenging continues
Remember satans victory or defeat still is not discussed
More resistance will come
Notice Mark 2:8-12
8 And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you question these things in your hearts? 9 Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise, take up your bed and walk’? 10 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the paralytic— 11 “I say to you, rise, pick up your bed, and go home.” 12 And he rose and immediately picked up his bed and went out before them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”
Authority over the Sabbath/Law (Mark 2:18-27)
18 Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?” 19 And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. 20 The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day. 21 No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made. 22 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins—and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins.”
23 One Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and as they made their way, his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. 24 And the Pharisees were saying to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” 25 And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did, when he was in need and was hungry, he and those who were with him: 26 how he entered the house of God, in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those who were with him?” 27 And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. 28 So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”
1 Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand. 2 And they watched Jesus, to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him. 3 And he said to the man with the withered hand, “Come here.” 4 And he said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent. 5 And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. 6 The Pharisees went out and immediately held counsel with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.
The Pharisees didnt understand why Jesus would break the rabbinic law
Jesus points out their own hypocrisy
Have you not read?????
The commandment given was for men
So that they could have weekly rest
Rabbinic law had made it more of a burden
Unbiblical tradition and ceremony meant nothing to the one who wrote the law
This elevated the conflict with the religious establishment of the day
Authority over nature and the elements (Mark 4:35-41)
41 And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”
Authority over death (Mark 5:21-24, 35-43)
21 And when Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him, and he was beside the sea. 22 Then came one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, and seeing him, he fell at his feet 23 and implored him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well and live.” 24 And he went with him.
And a great crowd followed him and thronged about him.
35 While he was still speaking, there came from the ruler’s house some who said, “Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?” 36 But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not fear, only believe.” 37 And he allowed no one to follow him except Peter and James and John the brother of James. 38 They came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and Jesus saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly. 39 And when he had entered, he said to them, “Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but sleeping.” 40 And they laughed at him. But he put them all outside and took the child’s father and mother and those who were with him and went in where the child was. 41 Taking her by the hand he said to her, “Talitha cumi,” which means, “Little girl, I say to you, arise.” 42 And immediately the girl got up and began walking (for she was twelve years of age), and they were immediately overcome with amazement. 43 And he strictly charged them that no one should know this, and told them to give her something to eat.
Our first Markan Sandwich
25 And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, 26 and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse. 27 She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. 28 For she said, “If I touch even his garments, I will be made well.” 29 And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. 30 And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about in the crowd and said, “Who touched my garments?” 31 And his disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, ‘Who touched me?’ ” 32 And he looked around to see who had done it. 33 But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him and told him the whole truth. 34 And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”
A Writing style of Mark’s
Often seem like an odd interlude in the middle of the story
These sandwiches are a way for Mark to illustrate a theological purpose in the middle of his narrative
It will bolster the point Mark is trying to make
Here its purpose is to demonstrate what true faith looks like
Both Jarius and the women bleeding had faith in one thing that Jesus can heal
Both of their faith was rewarded
Many more Markan sandwiches will be seen as we go though
Other Markan Sandwich in this section look at
Mark 4:1-20.
1 Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land. 2 And he was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them: 3 “Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow. 4 And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. 5 Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil. 6 And when the sun rose, it was scorched, and since it had no root, it withered away. 7 Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain. 8 And other seeds fell into good soil and produced grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.” 9 And he said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
10 And when he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables. 11 And he said to them, “To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables, 12 so that
“ ‘they may indeed see but not perceive,
and may indeed hear but not understand,
lest they should turn and be forgiven.’ ”
13 And he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables? 14 The sower sows the word. 15 And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown: when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them. 16 And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: the ones who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy. 17 And they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away. 18 And others are the ones sown among thorns. They are those who hear the word, 19 but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. 20 But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”
The sandwich verses are
Mark 4:10-13.
10 And when he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables. 11 And he said to them, “To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables, 12 so that
“ ‘they may indeed see but not perceive,
and may indeed hear but not understand,
lest they should turn and be forgiven.’ ”
13 And he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?
Jesus breaks to explain the purpose of the parables
We talked about this last week
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Mark show Jesus’s authority over these things while also showing us the servant he was
Notice all the mentions of the large crowds that gathered
Healing all who where sick
The crushing in or the interruption of the crowds on every day life
Jesus’s ministry wasnt one of a glorified King who did as he pleased
He was at the fathers work
The Growing Conflict
The Growing Conflict
Mark 6:1-8:26.
Jesus is rejected in his home town
Mark 6:1-6.
1 He went away from there and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him. 2 And on the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things? What is the wisdom given to him? How are such mighty works done by his hands? 3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him. 4 And Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household.” 5 And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. 6 And he marveled because of their unbelief.
And he went about among the villages teaching.
A grave departure from the crowds that swarmed him everywhere else
The faith in them was very weak in his home town
The twelve sent and John the Baptist death
Mark 6:7-30.
7 And he called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits. 8 He charged them to take nothing for their journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in their belts— 9 but to wear sandals and not put on two tunics. 10 And he said to them, “Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you depart from there. 11 And if any place will not receive you and they will not listen to you, when you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.” 12 So they went out and proclaimed that people should repent. 13 And they cast out many demons and anointed with oil many who were sick and healed them.
14 King Herod heard of it, for Jesus’ name had become known. Some said, “John the Baptist has been raised from the dead. That is why these miraculous powers are at work in him.” 15 But others said, “He is Elijah.” And others said, “He is a prophet, like one of the prophets of old.” 16 But when Herod heard of it, he said, “John, whom I beheaded, has been raised.” 17 For it was Herod who had sent and seized John and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because he had married her. 18 For John had been saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.” 19 And Herodias had a grudge against him and wanted to put him to death. But she could not, 20 for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and he kept him safe. When he heard him, he was greatly perplexed, and yet he heard him gladly.
21 But an opportunity came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee. 22 For when Herodias’s daughter came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests. And the king said to the girl, “Ask me for whatever you wish, and I will give it to you.” 23 And he vowed to her, “Whatever you ask me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom.” 24 And she went out and said to her mother, “For what should I ask?” And she said, “The head of John the Baptist.” 25 And she came in immediately with haste to the king and asked, saying, “I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.” 26 And the king was exceedingly sorry, but because of his oaths and his guests he did not want to break his word to her. 27 And immediately the king sent an executioner with orders to bring John’s head. He went and beheaded him in the prison 28 and brought his head on a platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother. 29 When his disciples heard of it, they came and took his body and laid it in a tomb.
30 The apostles returned to Jesus and told him all that they had done and taught.
Mark 6:7-30.
Another Markan sandwich
Mark 6:14-29.
The cost of discipleship exemplified
Sent out, rejected, and even put to death
Why here this one seems even more out of place
The popularity of Jesus increases
Mark 6:30-56, 7:24-8:8, 8:22-26.
Jesus feeds 5000, walks on water, heals, casts out demons, and feeds 4000
Jesus is flocked to by the people as soon as they land at Gennesaret
No matter how much he commands people to not spread the word they do it all the more
36 And Jesus charged them to tell no one. But the more he charged them, the more zealously they proclaimed it.
Jesus confronted by the pharisees again
1 Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, 2 they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. 3 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly, holding to the tradition of the elders, 4 and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.) 5 And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?” 6 And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written,
“ ‘This people honors me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me;
7 in vain do they worship me,
teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’
8 You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.”
9 And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition! 10 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ 11 But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban” ’ (that is, given to God)— 12 then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother, 13 thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”
14 And he called the people to him again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand: 15 There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.” 17 And when he had entered the house and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable. 18 And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, 19 since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.) 20 And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. 21 For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, 22 coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. 23 All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
Mark 7:1-23, 8:11-13.
Jesus doesnt hold back in his response but calls out the pharisees for their lack of knowledge
They demand signs, but Jesus denies them
12 And he sighed deeply in his spirit and said, “Why does this generation seek a sign? Truly, I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation.”
Jesus warns his disciples of complacency in this conflict
14 Now they had forgotten to bring bread, and they had only one loaf with them in the boat. 15 And he cautioned them, saying, “Watch out; beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.” 16 And they began discussing with one another the fact that they had no bread. 17 And Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardened? 18 Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear? And do you not remember? 19 When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” They said to him, “Twelve.” 20 “And the seven for the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” And they said to him, “Seven.”
Quit falling back on the traditions of man and have faith
The Recognition Of The Christ and His Mission
The Recognition Of The Christ and His Mission
Mark 8:27-10:1.
“You are the Christ”
27 And Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” 28 And they told him, “John the Baptist; and others say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets.” 29 And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Christ.” 30 And he strictly charged them to tell no one about him.
Mark 8:27-30.
The time was now for Jesus to confirm to the disciples what they should have already known
The Christ must suffer
Mark 8:31-38, 9:30-31.
Jesus makes it clear that he musty die and rise again
Also anyone that desires to follow after the Christ will need to give up their own life
A call back to the forshadowing in the death of John the Baptist
The Glorification of the Christ
Mark 9:1-13.
Jesus shows his true glory to Peter, James and John
The insiders and outsiders
Mark 9:33-50.
Jesus helps the disciples understand who is the greatest
The servant of all
Those who think themselves great are outsiders
Jesus clarifies who the true followers are
Those who dont oppose the mission is an insider
The one who opposes the mission in the slightest is an outsider
Jesus warns of tempting to sin
Those who tempt others to sin are outsiders
The Road Turns Toward the Cross
The Road Turns Toward the Cross
Mark 10:1-11:10.
The pharisees wanted more confrontation
Mark 10:1-12.
They thought they would corner him, but he again used the moment to teach what the bible says and how rabbinic law falls short in helping to understand
Because of your hardness of heart...
The rich man wants to earn his way into the kingdom
Mark 10:17-29.
The rich will be outsiders
the ones who give up all they have will have a great reward
The shadow of the cross grows
Mark 10:32-34.
Jesus prepares them for exactly what is about to happen to him
Who will sit at the right or left hand of Jesus in paradise
Mark 10:35-45.
Theme verse for the whole book Mark 10:45
45 For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
The son of man came to serve
The triumphal entry
Mark 11:1-10.
Jesus enters Jerusalem on a donkey just as Kings David and Solomon had done before him
“Hosanna” - Save now a messianic exclamation used for the highest form of praise.
The Final Showdown
The Final Showdown
Mark 11:15-12:44.
Jesus cleanses the temple and his authority is challenged
Mark 11:15-19.
The temple was being defiled Jesus cleared it out
The chief priests and scribes heard and began to plot a way to destroy him
Mark 11:27-33.
By what authority are you doing these things
At this point it should have been clear to them
Jesus exposes their hardness of heart
They realize there stuck
The cheif priests and scribes see a stalemate Jesus sees checkmate coming
The conflict boils over
Mark 12:1-40.
The back and forth of questioning
Parable of the tenants
Who his owed taxes
Whose wife will she be in the resurrection
The greatest commandment
Whose son is the Christ?
Finally a stern warning about the scribes who will receive the greater condemnation
An interlude about the end of the age
An interlude about the end of the age
Mark 13:1-37.
One of the rare instances that Mark puts full discourse in
It is one that portrays the triumphal victory of Jesus over all things on this earth
Stay awake and ready for these times
37 And what I say to you I say to all: Stay awake.”
The Final Scene at the Cross
The Final Scene at the Cross
Mark 14:1-15:47.
The plot
Mark 14:1-2,10-11.
The Lords supper
Mark 14:22-25.
The final meal
The Prayer
Mark 14:32-36.
Jesus understands the time his near
One final statement of obedience by the servant
36 And he said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”
The death
Mark 15:25-41.
The servant pays the ultimate price
Mark 15:33-39.
33 And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. 34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” 35 And some of the bystanders hearing it said, “Behold, he is calling Elijah.” 36 And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down.” 37 And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his last. 38 And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. 39 And when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that in this way he breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”
One final recognition of who he is by a gentile of all things
The Servant is Victorious
The Servant is Victorious
Mark 16:1-8.
The tomb is empty!!!!!
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