1 00:00:12,700 --> 00:00:16,900 Matthew, Mark and Luke wrote their accounts of the Gospel 2 00:00:16,900 --> 00:00:21,300 from a very similar perspective and a very much in contrast to 3 00:00:21,300 --> 00:00:24,700 the perspective that John takes in his account of the gospel and 4 00:00:24,700 --> 00:00:27,900 therefore Matthew, Mark, and Luke are oftentimes referred to 5 00:00:27,900 --> 00:00:32,700 as the synoptic gospels from the same perspective or from the 6 00:00:32,700 --> 00:00:35,200 same point of view. But while these three accounts 7 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:38,400 of the Gospel of very similar, there are some things about Mark 8 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:42,100 that make it unique, or makes it different, for example. 9 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:46,300 Obviously, just at first glance Mark is much more compact than 10 00:00:46,300 --> 00:00:51,400 Matthew and Luke, Luke is the longest of all the, the gospels. 11 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:58,200 Luke has 1147 versus Matthew is. Next has 1068, Mark has only 12 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:04,099 661, and one of the reasons that Mark's gospel is more compact 13 00:01:04,099 --> 00:01:04,900 than both. Matthew. 14 00:01:04,900 --> 00:01:08,200 And Luke is that Markowitz virtually all of The Parables 15 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:10,700 that Jesus taught. Now I know that you can kind of 16 00:01:10,700 --> 00:01:13,700 classify a parable. Maybe a little differently, but 17 00:01:13,700 --> 00:01:18,100 most everybody agrees that Mark, only recorded about four of The 18 00:01:18,100 --> 00:01:22,800 Parables that Jesus taught Matthew recorded 19, Luke 19 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:25,600 recorded by far, the most with 27. 20 00:01:26,100 --> 00:01:29,200 Now, in a different, some of these Parables were rather 21 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:31,100 lengthy. So I think you can see that just 22 00:01:31,100 --> 00:01:34,500 by omitting, the bulk of The Parables that Jesus taught that 23 00:01:34,500 --> 00:01:36,000 Mark was going to be much briefer. 24 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,800 Now, in addition to that of the six or seven sermons, that Jesus 25 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:42,000 preached that are recorded in the Gospels. 26 00:01:42,300 --> 00:01:45,300 Marc records, only one and that's in Chapter 13. 27 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:49,000 The sermon about the last days or the last things. 28 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:53,400 This is also recorded by Matthew of much lengthier in Matthew in 29 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:57,400 chapter 24 and 25. So, I think you can see that, 30 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:01,800 just by eliminating most of the Parables that Jesus taught by 31 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:04,700 eliminating, all of the sermons that are recorded that he 32 00:02:04,700 --> 00:02:06,800 preached with the exception of just. 33 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:11,400 One, obviously marks account is going to be much briefer, than 34 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:15,300 those by And Luke. But now, while Mark recorded, 35 00:02:15,300 --> 00:02:19,900 fewer of the sayings of Jesus than, than did Matthew and Luke 36 00:02:20,300 --> 00:02:25,000 Marc records, very many of his Parables and you'll find that 37 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:28,600 when both Matthew and Luke records, the same pair of our 38 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:31,700 are the miracle. I should say, whenever Matthew 39 00:02:31,700 --> 00:02:37,000 and Luke record the same miracle that Marc records, usually Mark, 40 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:42,100 relates it in more Vivid detail, go and that's one of the things. 41 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:46,800 About Mark that really I think is unique and that is his, the 42 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:52,300 vividness of his style notice. For example, Matthew, and Mark, 43 00:02:52,300 --> 00:02:56,000 both tell us about Jesus taking the little child and set him in 44 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:00,200 the midst, in Matthew, 18 and verse to Matthew says, and Jesus 45 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:03,200 called a little child unto him and set him in the midst of 46 00:03:03,208 --> 00:03:06,700 them. Marco adds one detail that just 47 00:03:06,700 --> 00:03:11,300 lights up the whole scene in Mark 9, verse 36, he says, and 48 00:03:11,300 --> 00:03:14,300 he took a child And set him in the midst of them. 49 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:18,800 And when he had taken him in his arms, he said unto them. 50 00:03:19,300 --> 00:03:23,600 Now in the touching Narrative of Jesus and two children, Jesus 51 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:27,100 rebuked his disciples for keeping the children from him. 52 00:03:27,300 --> 00:03:31,800 Only Mark finishes with these words in Mark 10 and verse 16. 53 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:36,800 And he took them up in his arms, he put his hands upon them and 54 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:40,800 he bless them. So it's these little touches of 55 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:44,400 detail. These Vivid flashes, if you 56 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:48,800 will, that just makes the the tenderness of Jesus, come alive. 57 00:03:49,100 --> 00:03:52,100 I don't think the vividness of of marks writing is any more 58 00:03:52,300 --> 00:03:54,900 apparent though, than in the story of the stilling of the 59 00:03:54,900 --> 00:03:57,000 storm. Now, this was recorded in a mark 60 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:01,000 for beginning at verse 35. It's also recorded in Matthew 61 00:04:01,100 --> 00:04:05,700 chapter 8, beginning at Verse 18 and in Luke chapter 8, beginning 62 00:04:05,700 --> 00:04:09,500 at verse 22, I want to reach you though, 10 phrases that are 63 00:04:09,500 --> 00:04:12,100 taken from Mark's narrative about the stealing. 64 00:04:12,300 --> 00:04:15,700 Storm and I would read just these these phrases to you sort 65 00:04:15,700 --> 00:04:21,100 of like a list, listen. When the evening was come, they 66 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:26,100 sent away the multitude. They took him even as he was, 67 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:30,600 there were also with him. Other Little Ships waves beat 68 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:35,800 into the ship in the hinder part of the ship on a pillar carest. 69 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:39,600 Thou not peace, be still. Now if you're familiar with that 70 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:42,100 story at all, you know, they're just the whole scene. 71 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:45,500 Scene comes to mind just by raising those reading those ten 72 00:04:45,500 --> 00:04:48,700 phrases in list form, you know, what is remarkable to me, 73 00:04:48,700 --> 00:04:52,500 though, is not really that. Mark use such vivid detailed in 74 00:04:52,508 --> 00:04:55,200 describing that event, but what is remarkable? 75 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:56,300 Is that both? Matthew? 76 00:04:56,300 --> 00:04:58,900 And Luke tell the same story and they use. 77 00:04:58,900 --> 00:05:03,300 None of these phrases. Another characteristic of Mark, 78 00:05:03,300 --> 00:05:07,800 that adds to the vividness of his account is his use of what 79 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:12,700 is called, the historic present tense of Herbs. 80 00:05:12,900 --> 00:05:16,400 Now I can illustrate that for you suppose that I told you that 81 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:21,200 I knew a man. Who walked up to a house, he 82 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:26,200 knocked on the door, he opened the door, he walked inside, he 83 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:30,400 looked all around, he walked over to the window, he opened 84 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:32,900 the window. Well I think you can pretty well 85 00:05:32,900 --> 00:05:35,600 picture that scene in your minds as something that might have 86 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:37,700 happened as some point in the past. 87 00:05:37,900 --> 00:05:41,000 Now I want to change it and put it in the present tense I don't 88 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,900 you to see the difference that it makes in the narrative. 89 00:05:44,700 --> 00:05:48,800 He walks up to the house, he knocks on the door. 90 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:55,100 He opens the door, he walks inside, he looks all around, he 91 00:05:55,100 --> 00:05:59,100 walks over to the window, he opens the window you see by 92 00:05:59,100 --> 00:06:01,500 putting the narrative in the present tense. 93 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:04,700 It's as though, you put yourself right there in the middle of the 94 00:06:04,700 --> 00:06:09,200 scene and that this scene is unfolding before your very eyes. 95 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:12,200 Well, that's what distinguishes marks, narratives from both 96 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:18,200 Matthew, and Luke, Mark uses this It's 151 times and he also 97 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:22,000 uses the imperfect tense very often and it gives the same 98 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:23,900 effect. It's as though you're right 99 00:06:23,900 --> 00:06:28,400 there in the middle of the scene as it unfolds before your very 100 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:31,000 eyes. Now in addition to that Mark 101 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:39,400 uses the, the adverb immediately very often in his narratives and 102 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:43,500 sometimes is translated. Straightway sometimes is 103 00:06:43,500 --> 00:06:46,900 translated for With with sometimes Anon. 104 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:49,600 But these four different translations come from the very 105 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:51,900 same word. And, you know, the one were most 106 00:06:51,900 --> 00:06:54,400 familiar with is the word immediately, but what he does is 107 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:59,200 he will give you a, he will relate a very Vivid narrative 108 00:06:59,500 --> 00:07:02,000 and then at the end of a narrative, he will say and 109 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,300 immediately, and then he'll begin another narrative. 110 00:07:05,300 --> 00:07:07,300 And at the end of that narrative, he'll say and 111 00:07:07,300 --> 00:07:11,900 immediately, and then at the end of that narrative and so on, and 112 00:07:11,900 --> 00:07:16,100 he does that over 40 times in his Of the gospel and that is 113 00:07:16,100 --> 00:07:18,800 more than that. Word is used in the rest of the 114 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:23,400 entire New Testament combined. Now what that does is it gives 115 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:27,100 us the impression that regardless of how varied and 116 00:07:27,100 --> 00:07:30,300 detailed the Lord's Mission must have been that. 117 00:07:30,300 --> 00:07:34,800 He was always hurrying to some destination that he could see 118 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:39,000 that other people could not see. Now in addition to that, it 119 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:43,400 makes the narrative move rapidly, it demands the 120 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:45,100 audience's attention. Tension. 121 00:07:45,500 --> 00:07:50,400 It is perfectly suited, for those with a short attention 122 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:55,000 span, you know, very probably Mark's account of the Gospel was 123 00:07:55,000 --> 00:08:00,000 initially written for the Romans and the Romans were a very busy 124 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,900 aggressive. People that really were not all 125 00:08:02,900 --> 00:08:06,300 that impressed with people's words, but they were impressed 126 00:08:06,300 --> 00:08:10,700 by decisive action. And for that reason, Mark 127 00:08:10,700 --> 00:08:12,900 doesn't record a lot about what Jesus said. 128 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:18,100 He doesn't record. His his lineage because the to 129 00:08:18,100 --> 00:08:21,500 the the Romans were not impressed with Jewish lineage or 130 00:08:21,500 --> 00:08:24,100 ancestry. He doesn't put much from the Old 131 00:08:24,100 --> 00:08:26,500 Testament, they had no understanding of that. 132 00:08:26,500 --> 00:08:32,600 But what he does is he focuses in upon the decisive actions of 133 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:37,000 Jesus, his powerful Miracles. And this is something that was 134 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:40,700 impressive to the Romans, and should be impressive unto us 135 00:08:40,700 --> 00:08:44,300 today. Mark, portrays Jesus as being 136 00:08:44,500 --> 00:08:48,800 Incessantly active during his ministry, we mentioned the other 137 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:50,900 evening. And mark, the third chapter Mark 138 00:08:50,900 --> 00:08:53,600 is the only one of the writers of the gospels who points out 139 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:57,600 that Jesus was so immersed in his Galilean Ministry. 140 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:03,200 In Capernaum, teaching the people Healing The Sick, causing 141 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:06,100 the blind to see the lame to walk. 142 00:09:06,100 --> 00:09:10,300 Cleansing lepers casting out demons and so long that word 143 00:09:10,300 --> 00:09:13,500 filtered back to his folks in Nazareth, his mother, his 144 00:09:13,500 --> 00:09:16,200 brothers and his sisters Jurors that he wasn't eating. 145 00:09:17,100 --> 00:09:21,200 And that he wasn't sleeping and that he was beside himself. 146 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:27,100 You know, I get amused. I see some of these poor Trails 147 00:09:27,100 --> 00:09:30,500 of the Lord, on television about this time of the year of rev. 148 00:09:30,500 --> 00:09:32,900 Do, you know, story books to Children about the life of 149 00:09:32,900 --> 00:09:36,500 Jesus. And so often Jesus is portrayed 150 00:09:36,500 --> 00:09:40,200 as someone who just sort of, you know, a peripatetic teacher just 151 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:44,900 kind of casually and slowly strolled along and and would 152 00:09:44,900 --> 00:09:48,800 passively leaned against a rock or sit down in the boat and 153 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:53,500 instruct his disciples who set a trap detention I'm riveted to 154 00:09:53,500 --> 00:09:55,900 every word that fell from his mouth. 155 00:09:56,300 --> 00:10:00,600 Well that's not the way that Mark portrays the life of Jesus 156 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:03,000 at all. You know what I think about 157 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:08,100 really when I think about marks portrayal here, I've seen a I've 158 00:10:08,100 --> 00:10:12,800 seen a Movie on television, I don't know half a dozen times, I 159 00:10:12,808 --> 00:10:15,300 guess I've seen parts of it. Anyhow half a dozen time. 160 00:10:15,300 --> 00:10:17,400 I think I've seen it enough times that about got it all put 161 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:21,000 together but it's it's called the Raiders of the Lost Ark and 162 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:23,500 you I know you've heard of it. It's about a fellow whose 163 00:10:23,500 --> 00:10:27,500 archaeologist and he's searching for, he's searching for 164 00:10:27,900 --> 00:10:31,800 archaeological treasures. And first time I ever saw that 165 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:36,100 it was, he was in a cave at the very beginning of the program of 166 00:10:36,100 --> 00:10:39,100 the film and he was in there in search of archaeological 167 00:10:39,100 --> 00:10:41,700 treasures. And This this place had booby 168 00:10:41,700 --> 00:10:46,200 traps at every turn and I mean, he would just narrowly escaped 169 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:49,600 one booby trap, and before he could, you know, kind of catch 170 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:52,400 his breath, he would be confronted with another and he 171 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:55,600 would just narrowly escaped that one and he would be confronted 172 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:57,000 with another. And it was just like that 173 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:01,100 repeatedly, he was almost crushed by a gigantic Boulder. 174 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:03,600 And finally, he's got the archaeological treasure and he 175 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:07,900 runs and Dives out of the cave. Just saving his life by the skin 176 00:11:07,900 --> 00:11:11,200 of his teeth, and he rolls over. And before he can catch his 177 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:13,900 breath, he looks up and he's surrounded by a bunch of 178 00:11:13,900 --> 00:11:16,100 hostile. Natives that have got bows and 179 00:11:16,100 --> 00:11:20,700 arrows and Spears pointed at him and when it gets away from them 180 00:11:20,700 --> 00:11:24,100 and he runs and dives into the water where an amphibious plane 181 00:11:24,100 --> 00:11:27,200 is waiting for him. He barely gets on it before it 182 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:31,300 lifts off and just as he starts to climb into his seat, he comes 183 00:11:31,300 --> 00:11:34,300 nose-to-nose with a gigantic boa constrictor. 184 00:11:35,300 --> 00:11:38,400 I mean, it was like that all the way through by the time that 185 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:40,000 film was over. I was exhausted. 186 00:11:40,100 --> 00:11:42,400 Austin. I mean there was never a point 187 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:43,700 where you could catch your breath. 188 00:11:43,700 --> 00:11:46,700 I mean, one narrow Escape after another and then he was 189 00:11:46,700 --> 00:11:49,500 confronted with another still. Yeah, well, that's the way, 190 00:11:49,500 --> 00:11:51,800 Mark, portrays the life of Jesus. 191 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:56,000 At least his Galilean Ministry when he was in Capernaum. 192 00:11:56,500 --> 00:11:59,700 He was, he was mobbed by multitudes. 193 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,600 We've already pointed out in Chapter 2, he was in a house 194 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:06,400 teaching some people, the crowd was so thick so great that it's 195 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:07,500 surrounded. The place. 196 00:12:07,700 --> 00:12:10,900 There were four men who came carrying a policy Man in hopes 197 00:12:10,900 --> 00:12:13,700 of getting them in there to the master whom I could heal him, 198 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:16,500 and the crowd was so great. They couldn't get to him, not to 199 00:12:16,500 --> 00:12:19,300 be denied, he went up on the roof and tore a hole and lowered 200 00:12:19,300 --> 00:12:22,700 him down through the roof. When his parents, when his 201 00:12:22,700 --> 00:12:26,100 mother and his brothers and sisters went from Nazareth up to 202 00:12:26,100 --> 00:12:28,300 Capernaum to get him. When they heard that. 203 00:12:28,300 --> 00:12:30,300 He wasn't eating, he wasn't sleeping. 204 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:32,600 They got there. He was teaching a multitude of 205 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:34,100 people in the crowd was so great. 206 00:12:34,100 --> 00:12:37,300 They couldn't even get in the building and had to send word 207 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:39,900 through the crowd, the Bible Port points. 208 00:12:40,100 --> 00:12:43,100 Out there in in Galilee. Well, it was sort of like, you 209 00:12:43,108 --> 00:12:48,400 know, what you see on newsreels today about some rock star who's 210 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:51,400 being mobbed by a group of people. 211 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:54,000 That's the way it was for our Lord in Galilee. 212 00:12:54,700 --> 00:12:57,800 He there were, there were mobs of people that were constantly 213 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:04,900 demanding of him, pleading with him, grasping at him asking 214 00:13:04,900 --> 00:13:06,600 something. There were those who were 215 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:09,900 demon-possessed, who repeatedly would run and fall. 216 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:14,200 At his feet and in order to get from one point to another point, 217 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:17,600 he would have to push through the crowd and step over people 218 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:20,800 and around people. And that's the reason that he 219 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:24,300 had his disciples keep a boat out there at the Sea of Galilee 220 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:27,800 in the ready all the time. So that just to get a little 221 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:30,900 relief, he could go out and get in the boat and shove it away 222 00:13:30,900 --> 00:13:33,400 from the shore and get a little distance. 223 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:38,100 One time he went out and got in the boat, he talked to the 224 00:13:38,100 --> 00:13:44,200 multitudes who assembled on the seashore for a day at the end of 225 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:48,000 the day, he was exhausted and he knew that if he went back to 226 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:52,100 shore, he would be mobbed again with demands and pleadings and 227 00:13:52,100 --> 00:13:54,400 requests. And he told his disciples, he 228 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:58,400 said, let's go to the other side of the of the sea just to try to 229 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:03,200 get a little respite and they saw what he was doing and the 230 00:14:03,300 --> 00:14:06,100 multitudes ray. And around the northern shore of 231 00:14:06,100 --> 00:14:09,300 the Sea of Galilee and beat him to the other side and were 232 00:14:09,300 --> 00:14:11,000 waiting for him when he got there. 233 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:19,000 One writer said that to read the gospel in a single sitting is to 234 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:21,700 feel him. Then by the crowds, we read by 235 00:14:21,700 --> 00:14:25,900 their demands and besieged by the attacks of demons. 236 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:31,500 Another characteristic of Mark is that he very often retains 237 00:14:31,700 --> 00:14:35,000 the very Aramaic words that Jesus spoke. 238 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:38,600 Now, the New Testament is written in Greek, but Jesus 239 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:43,700 actually spoke Aramaic, which was a dialect of Arabic or a 240 00:14:43,700 --> 00:14:47,300 dialect of Hebrew actually. And oftentimes in marks account, 241 00:14:47,300 --> 00:14:52,700 he retains the actual Aramaic words for example, in Mark 5 and 242 00:14:52,700 --> 00:14:58,800 verse 41, he said to Jay irises dead daughter He said, talitha 243 00:14:59,100 --> 00:15:06,100 koum, I which means damsel or a little girl arise get up and she 244 00:15:06,100 --> 00:15:10,700 did in chapter 7 and verse 11, the dedicated gift became core 245 00:15:10,700 --> 00:15:16,400 bomb in chapter 7 and verse 34. Jesus said to the deaf man who 246 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:23,400 had an impediment in his speech Etha, which means be loosed in 247 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:29,700 the garden. 14:36 he said, aww. Which means father and then in 248 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:34,400 chapter 15 and verse 34 on the cross, he cried aloha. 249 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:40,500 Aloha, why Lama sabachthani Then another thing about Mark, that 250 00:15:40,500 --> 00:15:45,900 makes it unique is its abrupt beginning and also its abrupt 251 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:48,700 ending. It ends just about as abruptly 252 00:15:48,900 --> 00:15:53,800 as it begins, but these 16 chapters really are pretty much 253 00:15:53,900 --> 00:15:59,200 divided into two general divisions, two major divisions. 254 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:03,900 And the first major division is an effort to establish the 255 00:16:03,900 --> 00:16:06,800 identity of Jesus. You know, it's really 256 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:09,700 interesting to me that you can and turn over to acts the 10th 257 00:16:09,700 --> 00:16:13,600 chapter and take a look at the outline of the sermon that the 258 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:16,500 Apostle Peter, preached at the household of Cornelius. 259 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:20,200 And then go back over and look at the arrangement of Mark and 260 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:24,300 it's almost identical to the outline of Peters sermon to the 261 00:16:24,300 --> 00:16:26,800 household of Cornelius. And it's, you know, it's sort of 262 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:31,400 like a you've got to establish the identity first because if 263 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:35,900 you don't, I establish his identity as the Son of God, then 264 00:16:35,900 --> 00:16:38,000 really his death is inconsequential. 265 00:16:38,100 --> 00:16:42,700 To you, for that reason, the first half of Mark focuses upon 266 00:16:42,700 --> 00:16:46,700 the powerful workings, the miracles of Jesus that 267 00:16:46,700 --> 00:16:50,200 established him as the powerful Son of God. 268 00:16:50,300 --> 00:16:53,300 And then, after having established his identity, then 269 00:16:53,300 --> 00:16:57,300 the second half of the Gospel deals with the passion. 270 00:16:57,700 --> 00:17:02,500 Now, these two major divisions can be subdivided into seven, 271 00:17:02,700 --> 00:17:07,099 very brief subdivisions, the first subdivision is in chapter 272 00:17:07,099 --> 00:17:10,900 one. And it go is the first 13 versus 273 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:12,700 you. Take a look here, you'll see 274 00:17:12,700 --> 00:17:16,800 that there is no genealogy. The preaching of John is stated 275 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:20,800 in his bare elements of the Temptation is not narrated 276 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:24,300 narrated in detail, the entire section deals with the 277 00:17:24,300 --> 00:17:28,600 credentials of Jesus. He's baptized of John anointed 278 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:31,900 by the Holy Spirit and tested in the wilderness. 279 00:17:32,500 --> 00:17:39,000 Then the second section begins at 1:14 and runs through. 6:13. 280 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:44,800 And at first glance this, second section here, looks like a just 281 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:49,000 a list of unrelated Miracles that Jesus performs, but you 282 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:52,300 take a little closer look and you'll see that what Mark has 283 00:17:52,300 --> 00:17:55,500 done here. Is he has listed these miracles 284 00:17:55,600 --> 00:18:00,700 in order to establish the authority of Jesus as being 285 00:18:00,700 --> 00:18:04,000 Divine. The Son of God notice in Chapter 286 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:05,900 2. For example, I mentioned this a 287 00:18:05,900 --> 00:18:09,500 moment ago, he healed the palsy A man that was brought to him in 288 00:18:09,500 --> 00:18:11,300 Capernaum. They lowered him down through 289 00:18:11,300 --> 00:18:14,700 the roof to Jesus below but the very first words that Jesus 290 00:18:14,700 --> 00:18:19,200 spoke to him were thy sins. Be forgiven thee. 291 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:22,800 Now, the leaders of the religious Pete Jews, they were 292 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:25,400 there on that occasion when they heard those words ever shocked 293 00:18:26,100 --> 00:18:28,700 and they thought to themselves who can forgive sins, but God 294 00:18:28,700 --> 00:18:33,400 only and they were convinced, he was guilty of blasphemy, but 295 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:37,600 what he was doing was establishing his authority to 296 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:39,200 forgive. Sayings. 297 00:18:39,700 --> 00:18:45,300 Then in Chapter 2 toward the end of the chapter, Jesus gets into 298 00:18:45,300 --> 00:18:48,300 a debate with the Pharisees because his disciples were 299 00:18:48,300 --> 00:18:51,300 eating Grain on the Sabbath day. And then at the first part of 300 00:18:51,300 --> 00:18:57,600 chapter 3, he heals a man in the synagogue, on the Sabbath day, a 301 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:00,800 man, with the withered hand and he gets into it with the 302 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:04,000 Pharisees over that. And you remember that he he 303 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:10,700 tells them in conclusion that he is the Lord of the Sabbath, what 304 00:19:10,700 --> 00:19:13,900 he was doing there was establishing his authority to 305 00:19:13,900 --> 00:19:18,800 regulate religion, then in chapters 3 through chapters 306 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:21,500 fight. Chapter 5, there are several 307 00:19:21,500 --> 00:19:25,500 examples of his casting out, demons a casting out, evil 308 00:19:25,500 --> 00:19:30,700 spirits and this establishes his authority over Satan in chapter 309 00:19:30,700 --> 00:19:33,000 4. We have the narrative about his 310 00:19:33,900 --> 00:19:37,400 calming, the wind up on the Sea of Galilee The Tempest and that 311 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:40,000 demonstrates. His power over nature, and then 312 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:44,200 in chapter 5, we have his raising Jay irises daughter from 313 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:47,700 Death, back to life, demonstrating his power over 314 00:19:47,700 --> 00:19:51,100 death. So, all of these examples very 315 00:19:51,100 --> 00:19:54,900 carefully, establish his authority, to forgive sins, to 316 00:19:54,900 --> 00:19:58,700 regulate religion his authority over Satan, his power over 317 00:19:58,700 --> 00:20:04,100 nature and his power over death. Now, in chapter 6, we come to 318 00:20:04,100 --> 00:20:08,300 the third section, beginning at verse 14, and it runs Through 319 00:20:08,300 --> 00:20:13,300 8:26. Now in this third section, we 320 00:20:13,300 --> 00:20:15,400 have the introduction of conflict. 321 00:20:16,300 --> 00:20:19,700 John, the Baptist is beheaded by Herod Antipas. 322 00:20:20,300 --> 00:20:25,600 Jesus can feel the very real threat of Antipas as well. 323 00:20:25,900 --> 00:20:30,300 It's also, in this section, when Jesus fed the multitude on the 324 00:20:30,300 --> 00:20:33,500 eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee, you know, with the 325 00:20:33,500 --> 00:20:36,200 Loaves and Fishes, a multitude of over 5,000. 326 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:39,600 And you remember on that occasion that the people were so 327 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:42,100 thrilled. And so impressed by this 328 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:46,100 powerful Miracle display their ready to make him their King 329 00:20:46,100 --> 00:20:49,600 right there. Jesus however, though, recognize 330 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:53,700 this as the same Temptation that the devil had made to him, 331 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:55,800 rioters, baptism in the wilderness. 332 00:20:56,300 --> 00:20:59,000 The idea that he could be the king without having to go to the 333 00:20:59,008 --> 00:21:03,900 cross. And then, in addition, he gets 334 00:21:03,900 --> 00:21:07,900 into it with the Pharisees over their traditions and he 335 00:21:07,900 --> 00:21:11,700 denounces their traditions because they actually violate 336 00:21:11,700 --> 00:21:14,400 the law of God. Now, in this section, on two 337 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:21,400 occasions, Jesus withdrawals, or he Retreats from confrontation, 338 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:26,800 and he tells his disciples, the reason is because the time is 339 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:30,000 not yet, there's going to come a time when he was not going to 340 00:21:30,008 --> 00:21:32,300 retreat, and he was going to have a conversation. 341 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:34,800 Aaron tation with his enemies and it was going to result in 342 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:38,200 his crucifixion. But the time was not yet, then 343 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:41,300 the fourth section. And really, this is the pivotal 344 00:21:41,300 --> 00:21:44,200 Point as far as Mark is concerned in his account of the 345 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:46,800 Gospel. The fourth section begins at 346 00:21:46,900 --> 00:21:53,800 8:27 and it runs through 10:52. Now, it is at this point that 347 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:57,600 Jesus takes his disciples about 30 miles up north of the Sea of 348 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:03,600 Galilee to a region called caesarea Philippi Far away from 349 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:06,500 Jerusalem, far away, from the temple away from the threats of 350 00:22:06,500 --> 00:22:09,700 Herod Antipas away from the constant demands of the 351 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:14,600 Pharisees, the Sadducees, a very Hellenistic region, he takes his 352 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:17,900 disciples up there. And for the first time he 353 00:22:17,900 --> 00:22:21,500 questions them, specifically about his own identity. 354 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:25,000 We talked about this the other night he said whom do men say 355 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,700 that. I the son of man a.m. now he had 356 00:22:27,700 --> 00:22:31,100 been in his his Earthly Ministry two-and-a-half to three years at 357 00:22:31,100 --> 00:22:34,200 this point. And multitudes had seen his 358 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:39,500 incomparable Miracles. They had heard his incomparable 359 00:22:39,500 --> 00:22:41,600 teaching, his authoritative teaching. 360 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:44,400 They shook their heads, in amazement and they said we've 361 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:46,900 never heard anybody talk like this man. 362 00:22:47,900 --> 00:22:52,100 Jesus wanted to know that anybody out there seen in Me, 363 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:55,400 God. And he said, whom do men say 364 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:57,300 that? I, the son of man and well, his 365 00:22:57,300 --> 00:23:00,000 disciples spoke up and said something that you're John, the 366 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,300 Baptist, something that you're Elijah others. 367 00:23:02,300 --> 00:23:06,000 Think your Jeremiah, or one of the prophets and then, he asked, 368 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:11,400 whom, do you say that I am? And Peter said it the cold and 369 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:15,600 Oracle, he said, Thou Art the Christ in Matthew's account. 370 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:19,300 He says, Thou Art the Christ, the son of the Living. 371 00:23:19,300 --> 00:23:23,400 God, Jesus accepted that confession from Peter and 372 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:26,600 blessed him for it. You know, right after that he 373 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:31,300 took Peter James and John up down up on are probably Mount 374 00:23:31,300 --> 00:23:36,000 Hermon up on a mountain anyway and there he transfigured 375 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:42,600 himself, he gave him, gave them a glimpse of his glorious nature 376 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:46,900 and that sort of galvanized, the confession that Peter had made 377 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:52,500 establishing his identity as the Christ, the son of the Living 378 00:23:52,500 --> 00:23:56,000 God and it was only after they had that. 379 00:23:56,000 --> 00:24:00,900 He told his disciples that he had to go to Jerusalem and 380 00:24:00,900 --> 00:24:04,300 suffer, many things at the hands of the chief priests, the elders 381 00:24:04,300 --> 00:24:09,100 and the scribes and be killed and raised again, the third day. 382 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:15,600 Well, the fifth section chapters 11, 12 and 13 in here. 383 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:19,300 We have The Narrative of the dramatic return of Jesus to 384 00:24:19,300 --> 00:24:23,900 Jerusalem his Triumphal entry into the holy city, you know, 385 00:24:23,900 --> 00:24:25,200 there's not going to be at this point. 386 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:28,600 There's not going to be any more Retreats, there's not going to 387 00:24:28,608 --> 00:24:32,900 be any more withdrawals, but in fact Jesus is going to force the 388 00:24:32,900 --> 00:24:35,200 action. It's sort of like he throws Down 389 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:38,400 The Gauntlet. The time is now he's going to 390 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:43,500 die but he's not going to die in some remote obscure or corner of 391 00:24:43,500 --> 00:24:46,400 Galilee. He's going to die in the holy 392 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:50,200 city of Jerusalem before thousands of jerusalemites. 393 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:53,500 And thousands of pilgrims who have come from all over the 394 00:24:53,500 --> 00:24:57,700 world for the Passover. And he allows his disciples to 395 00:24:57,700 --> 00:25:00,100 do something that he had never allowed them to do before he 396 00:25:00,100 --> 00:25:03,200 allowed them to give a public demonstration in his armor. 397 00:25:03,700 --> 00:25:06,200 He sent a couple of disciples over to Beth veggie and they got 398 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,600 the Colt of a donkey. They brought it back to him and 399 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:11,700 had never been written before. Didn't have a saddle. 400 00:25:11,700 --> 00:25:14,900 And so, a couple of disciples took off their clothes, their 401 00:25:14,900 --> 00:25:17,800 Road, their coats, and put them over the back of the donkey made 402 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:21,700 sort of a makeshift saddle. And Jesus climbed this prattle 403 00:25:21,700 --> 00:25:27,300 of it, donkey and began to make the two mile Trek from Bethenny 404 00:25:27,300 --> 00:25:30,000 over the Mount of Olives into the holy city. 405 00:25:30,700 --> 00:25:36,000 Now, the disciples knew that this was a strategic moment in 406 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,500 the history of Israel, but they didn't really fully understand 407 00:25:39,500 --> 00:25:41,500 at that time. What this was all about, you 408 00:25:41,500 --> 00:25:48,200 know what they thought. Rome had been in Palestine with 409 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:54,600 occupational forces, 100 years? And the Jews. 410 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:59,100 Absolutely despised it. I mean, everywhere, they looked 411 00:25:59,100 --> 00:26:03,500 they saw Roman occupational forces and that was bad enough. 412 00:26:03,500 --> 00:26:06,600 If something that chafe them even more than that was, the 413 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:10,800 fact that they had to pay taxes to Rome, they had to pay a 414 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:14,400 poll-tax and there were many of them that believe, that, that 415 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:18,400 was unlawful. And what they had in mind was 416 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:22,900 that Jesus was going to be a deliverer sort of like Moses. 417 00:26:23,300 --> 00:26:26,800 Who had freed their ancestors from the oppression of the 418 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:32,000 Egyptians who had now come as going to free them from the Yoke 419 00:26:32,100 --> 00:26:36,400 of Roman oppression. That just seen him raise a dead 420 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:40,600 man, Lazarus and Bethany. They were convinced that this 421 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:44,600 powerful Prophet who could perform Miracles that he was 422 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:48,200 going to go over into the city of Jerusalem that he was going 423 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:52,300 to oust the Romans he was going to sit down on the throne of 424 00:26:52,300 --> 00:26:57,000 David and re-establish the world Prestige of Israel. 425 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:00,100 They were out of their minds with enthusiasm and 426 00:27:00,100 --> 00:27:02,800 anticipation. The Bible says that, that 427 00:27:02,900 --> 00:27:05,600 someone took her clothes off and threw him down on the ground 428 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:07,900 before the donkey. That was carrying the Savior, 429 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,300 others pulled green leaves off of trees and made sort of a 430 00:27:11,308 --> 00:27:16,100 carpet of green before the That Again, Usher him toward the 431 00:27:16,100 --> 00:27:19,800 summit of the Mount of Olives, they broke out into spontaneous, 432 00:27:19,900 --> 00:27:24,000 singing and praying. They cried for Santa to God. 433 00:27:24,300 --> 00:27:28,400 And that really is a prayer. And it means Lord, Save us. 434 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,300 What they were asking, was God to use the powerful Prophet to 435 00:27:32,300 --> 00:27:35,900 remove the boot of Oppression from their throats. 436 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:40,100 They reached the summit and descended toward the other side. 437 00:27:40,100 --> 00:27:43,000 Whether it already been a pilgrims that have gone into 438 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:46,400 Jerusalem, that is seen Jesus raised Lazarus over in Bethany. 439 00:27:46,700 --> 00:27:48,500 They would have learnt old. The people that the great 440 00:27:48,500 --> 00:27:51,100 prophet From Galilee is en route right now. 441 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,600 And there was a multitude that poured out of the Eastern Gate 442 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:57,200 of the city, went up that side of the slope of the Mount of 443 00:27:57,208 --> 00:28:01,700 Olives waiting palm branches, which was typical of receiving, 444 00:28:01,700 --> 00:28:07,200 a king returning in Victory, Singing and shouting and 445 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:11,200 praising God, they ushered him triumphantly into the holy city. 446 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:16,200 but, you know, when it got into the city, He didn't say anything 447 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,600 about a revolution. He didn't say anything about 448 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:23,900 ousting, the Romans, he didn't organize a militia, he told them 449 00:28:23,900 --> 00:28:27,500 to pay their taxes. This is not what they were 450 00:28:27,500 --> 00:28:30,700 expecting out of him. And then he went out and spent 451 00:28:30,700 --> 00:28:33,100 the night on the Mount of Olives, and he came back the 452 00:28:33,100 --> 00:28:36,900 next morning and he cleansed the temple, he turned over the 453 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,400 tables of the money changers, and the seats of the dove 454 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:41,400 Sellers, and he drove them out of the temple. 455 00:28:41,500 --> 00:28:44,200 And that infuriated, the chief priests because they were 456 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:47,700 getting a cut of the profit and it just caused him to redouble 457 00:28:47,700 --> 00:28:54,800 their Ian to put into death. You know, this this part of the 458 00:28:54,808 --> 00:29:02,600 life of Jesus is is narrated by Mark in such vivid detail in 459 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,600 contrast to the earlier part of his gospel. 460 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,200 That a lot of times people have said that marks account really, 461 00:29:09,300 --> 00:29:14,400 is just a passion story with a lengthy introduction in red. 462 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:18,300 That's pretty accurate. Because this is the part that he 463 00:29:18,300 --> 00:29:24,200 really focuses in on With detail and then in chapters 14 and 15, 464 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,400 of course, he gives us The Narrative of the passion. 465 00:29:27,900 --> 00:29:31,800 He talks about Jesus instituting, the Lord's, Supper 466 00:29:32,300 --> 00:29:36,400 he tells us about his arrest and about his being placed before 467 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:40,000 the Sanhedrin that had been illegally convened at night 468 00:29:40,300 --> 00:29:43,700 about the mockery of that trial about the temple guards, beating 469 00:29:43,700 --> 00:29:48,400 him to a pulp with her Fists. About him, being turned over to 470 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:52,200 the Roman cohort. A group of over 600 men who took 471 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:55,500 him into the common Hall and treated him like a buffoon. 472 00:29:58,300 --> 00:30:01,900 Scourged him within an inch of his wife. 473 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:08,600 And then made him walk the Via Dolorosa the, the, the trail 474 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:14,700 from his condemnation to gotha where their Mark in profound 475 00:30:14,700 --> 00:30:19,200 understatement says in chapter 15 and verse 25 and they 476 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:25,400 crucified him. You know, all of this is 477 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:32,900 arranged by Mark to leave the reader incredulous. now, I mean 478 00:30:32,900 --> 00:30:39,900 here was a man who never did anything but good, He fed the 479 00:30:39,900 --> 00:30:44,300 hungry. He gave drink to the Thirsty, he 480 00:30:44,300 --> 00:30:47,600 healed the sick. He made the lame walk. 481 00:30:48,300 --> 00:30:51,300 He he caused a leopards to be cleansed. 482 00:30:51,300 --> 00:30:55,200 He cast out demons. He taught them about eternity, 483 00:30:55,300 --> 00:31:00,200 about life Everlasting. He never did anything but good. 484 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:06,000 How could anybody conspire to kill him? 485 00:31:07,900 --> 00:31:12,500 That's the effect, but the story doesn't end there. 486 00:31:12,700 --> 00:31:17,400 It ends in chapter 16 and we have the thrilling account of 487 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:22,000 the Resurrection. Mark begins chapter 16 the 488 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:27,400 talking about the women, who were en route to the tomb to 489 00:31:27,500 --> 00:31:30,800 further anoint, the body of the Savior and remember what was 490 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:32,800 Paramount upon their minds at that time? 491 00:31:34,300 --> 00:31:38,200 How are we going to roll that stone away? 492 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:41,200 There is a manuscript of the Bible that dates from the 2nd 493 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:46,400 Century in the says that it took Joseph of Arimathea and 20 494 00:31:46,500 --> 00:31:51,800 servants, 20 male servants to roll that stone in place and 495 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:55,400 seal Jesus body in the Tomb in here. 496 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,900 You got a little handful of women frail, women that are 497 00:31:58,908 --> 00:32:02,400 making their way out there and all they can think about is how 498 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:03,900 we're going to roll a side that stone. 499 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,900 No. But when they got there, early 500 00:32:06,900 --> 00:32:09,200 in the morning upon the first day of the week, the stone had 501 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,900 already been rolled away and the tomb was empty. 502 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,500 Now they've been all kinds of efforts to explain away the 503 00:32:16,500 --> 00:32:18,500 empty tomb since the very beginning. 504 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:20,300 But I'm going to tell you tonight. 505 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:26,400 The only explanation that deals with all the circumstances about 506 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:31,900 which we know is that Jesus did just exactly what he said he was 507 00:32:31,900 --> 00:32:34,400 going to do. And that is early in the morning 508 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:40,200 upon the first day of the week. He arose from the grave Glory to 509 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:46,200 God in the highest. The tomb of our founder remains 510 00:32:46,300 --> 00:32:49,800 empty and that's what makes Christianity different from 511 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:52,300 every other religion in the world. 512 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:57,600 You can't say that about Buddha. You can't say that about 513 00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:01,000 Mohammed, you cannot say that about Confucius. 514 00:33:02,900 --> 00:33:06,900 The tomb of our founder remains empty. 515 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:10,500 But I'll tell you after the Glorious. 516 00:33:10,500 --> 00:33:14,800 Resurrection Mark, brings his account of the story very 517 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:17,800 quickly to a close, he talks about just a couple of things 518 00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:21,500 and then he portrays Jesus gathered with his disciples just 519 00:33:21,500 --> 00:33:25,700 before his sins back to heaven and the Lord tells his disciples 520 00:33:25,700 --> 00:33:29,600 in essence. Now you understand. 521 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:32,800 Now, you got it all put together, you understand. 522 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:38,800 Now about my incarnation. you understand about my life, you 523 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:42,900 understand about my teaching, you understand about my 524 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,800 suffering, my death, my burial, and the resurrection, you 525 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:50,900 understand it and therefore, I want you to take this message 526 00:33:51,500 --> 00:33:55,600 throughout all the world and I want you to tell it to, every 527 00:33:55,600 --> 00:34:03,600 living person, And whoever believes it and is baptized will 528 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:07,300 be saved. And then he ascended back to 529 00:34:07,300 --> 00:34:11,800 heaven. Well, friends tonight. 530 00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:14,600 You heard the Gospel According to Mark. 531 00:34:14,900 --> 00:34:18,500 Do you believe it? 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