Mark 3:7-12 NASB Jesus withdrew to the sea with His disciples; and a great multitude from Galilee followed; and also from Judea, (8) and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and beyond the Jordan, and the vicinity of Tyre and Sidon, a great number of people heard of all that He was doing and came to Him. (9) And He told His disciples that a boat should stand ready for Him because of the crowd, so that they would not crowd Him; (10) for He had healed many, with the result that all those who had afflictions pressed around Him in order to touch Him. (11) Whenever the unclean spirits saw Him, they would fall down before Him and shout, “You are the Son of God!” (12) And He earnestly warned them not to tell who He was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- Consider that people were coming from around 150 miles to see and touch Jesus (see figure below).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Why were people coming to him? Is that why he came?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- What were the unclean spirits saying and what was Jesus’ response? What does this tell you about Jesus’ mission?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Mark 3:13-20 NASB And He *went up on the mountain and *summoned those whom He Himself wanted, and they came to Him. (14) And He appointed twelve, so that they would be with Him and that He could send them out to preach, (15) and to have authority to cast out the demons. (16) And He appointed the twelve: Simon (to whom He gave the name Peter), (17) and James, the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James (to them He gave the name Boanerges, which means, “Sons of Thunder”); (18) and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot; (19) and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Him. (20) And He *came home, and the crowd *gathered again, to such an extent that they could not even eat a meal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- As the crowds become larger, what does Jesus do?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- What is your impression of the size of the crowds?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Mark 3:21-30 NASB When His own people heard of this, they went out to take custody of Him; for they were saying, “He has lost His senses.” (22) The scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and “He casts out the demons by the ruler of the demons.” (23) And He called them to Himself and began speaking to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan? (24) “If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. (25) “If a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. (26) “If Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but he is finished! (27) “But no one can enter the strong man’s house and plunder his property unless he first binds the strong man, and then he will plunder his house. (28) “Truly I say to you, all sins shall be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they utter; (29) but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”– (30) because they were saying, “He has an unclean spirit.” (Mat 12:32)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- How did Jesus refute the Jerusalem scribes claims that Jesus was possessed by Satan and casting out Satan’s demons?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- What did Jesus mean about blaspheme the Holy Spirit? What is the consequence? Why?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Mark 3:31-35 NASB Then His mother and His brothers *arrived, and standing outside they sent word to Him and called Him. (32) A crowd was sitting around Him, and they *said to Him, “Behold, Your mother and Your brothers are outside looking for You.” (33) Answering them, He *said, “Who are My mother and My brothers?” (34) Looking about at those who were sitting around Him, He *said, “Behold My mother and My brothers! (35) “For whoever does the will of God, he is My brother and sister and mother.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- Who is involved and where are they?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- What would have happened if Jesus responded to His mother and brothers request?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- What was Jesus response?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nMark 10:14-16 NASB But when Jesus saw this, He was indignant and said to them, “Permit the children to come to Me; do not hinder them; for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. (15) “Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all.” (16) And He took them in His arms and began blessing them, laying His hands on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mark 11:15-17 NASB Then they *came to Jerusalem. And He entered the temple and began to drive out those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves; (16) and He would not permit anyone to carry merchandise through the temple. (17) And He began to teach and say to them, “Is it not written, ‘MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER FOR ALL THE NATIONS’? But you have made it a ROBBERS’ DEN.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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https:\/\/make-your-mark-study.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/map-mark-37-8.html<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n Matthew 12:29-33 NASB “Or how can anyone enter the strong man’s house and carry off his property, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house. (30) “He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me scatters. (31) “Therefore I say to you, any sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven people, but blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven. (32) “Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come. (33) “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for the tree is known by its fruit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mark 3:1-6 NASB He entered again into a synagogue; and a man was there whose hand was withered. (2) They were watching Him to see if He would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him. (3) He *said to the man with the withered hand, “Get up and come forward!” (4) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gracewalk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gracewalk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gracewalk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gracewalk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gracewalk.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2606"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gracewalk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2616,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gracewalk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions\/2616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gracewalk.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gracewalk.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gracewalk.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}