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Thanks once again for your 96 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:43,400 support, please keep this ministry in your prayers and 97 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:57,800 let's get into today's episode. Hey, you again everyone and 98 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:00,400 welcome back to our podcast, where we take a look at the 99 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:03,700 Gospel reading from today and we want to try and get at the 100 00:05:03,700 --> 00:05:06,700 literal sense of the text. What was the original reader or 101 00:05:06,700 --> 00:05:09,500 original author trying to convey to his readers. 102 00:05:09,500 --> 00:05:12,800 So what was Mark in this case, trying to teach his first 103 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:17,700 century audience, we're looking today at Mark chapter 3 verses 7 104 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:24,500 to 12 Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the Lakeside and 105 00:05:24,500 --> 00:05:26,500 great crowds From Galilee followed him. 106 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:32,800 From Judea Jerusalem, idiom mayor trans jordania and the 107 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:37,500 region of Tyre and sidon great numbers who had heard of all he 108 00:05:37,500 --> 00:05:42,100 was doing came to him and he asked his disciples to have a 109 00:05:42,108 --> 00:05:45,700 boat ready for him because of the crowd to keep him from being 110 00:05:45,700 --> 00:05:50,000 crushed. For he had cured so many that 111 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:52,900 all who were Afflicted in any way were crowding, forward to 112 00:05:52,900 --> 00:05:56,900 touch him and the unclean spirits whenever they saw him, 113 00:05:57,300 --> 00:05:59,500 would fall down before him and Shout. 114 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:03,600 You are the Son of God, but he warned them strongly not to make 115 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:10,300 him known. Okay, so the context here is 116 00:06:10,300 --> 00:06:13,300 important as we've just heard over the last couple of days 117 00:06:13,900 --> 00:06:17,200 Jesus has just had a couple of confrontations on the Sabbath 118 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:19,500 day. Remember the last one was in the 119 00:06:19,500 --> 00:06:21,600 synagogue with the man with a withered hand. 120 00:06:22,500 --> 00:06:24,900 And this particular scene we're looking at May well have 121 00:06:24,900 --> 00:06:29,000 happened on the same day because it starts by saying Jesus 122 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:33,000 withdrew with his disciples. So what's going on here is Jesus 123 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:37,300 is getting out of town to get some space, withdrew implies. 124 00:06:37,500 --> 00:06:42,200 He wants to get Why? So that's the plan he may be to 125 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:44,900 have a bit of privacy or maybe to teach his disciples in 126 00:06:44,900 --> 00:06:48,800 private and they go to the lake side which is the Sea of Galilee 127 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:51,300 and Jesus does a lot of his teaching from there. 128 00:06:51,500 --> 00:06:56,400 That's just on the very edge of the town that he was just at. 129 00:06:58,300 --> 00:07:00,900 Now, this is interesting for because Scholars have noticed 130 00:07:00,900 --> 00:07:04,400 that if you look at Jesus, General travels in Mark and 131 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:08,400 where he moves from, and where he moves to eventually. 132 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:12,600 So, it's from this point on from chapter 3 onwards in Mark, Jesus 133 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:15,200 becomes a bit more elusive. He tends to stay out of the 134 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:18,800 synagogue's, from now on, and he travels back and forth across 135 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:21,300 the lake, most of the time often at night time. 136 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:24,500 So we get the impression that he's trying to avoid the crowds 137 00:07:24,500 --> 00:07:26,400 in this part of the world from now on. 138 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:30,100 But great multitudes From Galilee, followed him. 139 00:07:30,900 --> 00:07:34,600 So Galilee remember is the state of Israel that Jesus lives in. 140 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:38,600 So people are coming from all over that region to see him and 141 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:41,500 also it lists a whole lot of other states of Israel that 142 00:07:41,500 --> 00:07:44,900 people are coming from. So Judea Jerusalem, idiom a, a 143 00:07:44,900 --> 00:07:48,100 trans jordania and the region of Tyre and sidon. 144 00:07:48,300 --> 00:07:51,100 These are all other states or neighboring territories of 145 00:07:51,100 --> 00:07:53,700 Israel. Many of these people would be 146 00:07:53,700 --> 00:07:58,200 Gentiles tyre and sidon in particular, a gentile areas so 147 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:00,700 we don't just have juice here. We have people from all over the 148 00:08:00,700 --> 00:08:06,100 world or this part of the world coming to Jesus these regions. 149 00:08:06,100 --> 00:08:09,600 Some of them are quite a long way away so more than 100 miles. 150 00:08:10,300 --> 00:08:14,000 So several days journey people are coming to see Jesus and to 151 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,500 be healed. He's become quite Famous by this 152 00:08:16,500 --> 00:08:19,700 point. So, he tells his disciples in 153 00:08:19,700 --> 00:08:23,500 verse 9 to have a boat ready because of the crowd to keep him 154 00:08:23,500 --> 00:08:26,800 from being crushed. So Jesus thinking is that if 155 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:29,600 he's on the boat, he can still teach the crowds, he's on the 156 00:08:29,608 --> 00:08:32,700 boat and they're on the shore and he can still teach them, but 157 00:08:32,700 --> 00:08:34,900 he's not going to be crushed and it's quite a good idea. 158 00:08:35,500 --> 00:08:37,000 We don't know whether he actually does that. 159 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:40,000 In this case, the text doesn't tell us if he gets on the boat 160 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:42,700 in the end but certainly late in his ministry. 161 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:45,600 He does do that. He teaches the crowds from the 162 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:49,600 boat. Verse 10, for he had cured so 163 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:52,200 many that. All who are afflicted in any way 164 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:54,100 were crowding. Forward to touch him. 165 00:08:54,900 --> 00:08:57,800 So, everyone is coming to him. Everyone wants to be cured. 166 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:02,800 And there's this kind of mass surge Mass crowd coming forward. 167 00:09:04,100 --> 00:09:06,500 Probably people are less interested in who Jesus is and 168 00:09:06,500 --> 00:09:08,700 they have more interested in what he can do for them. 169 00:09:09,300 --> 00:09:11,400 But that's understandable because many of these people 170 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:15,600 would be desperate for healing probably having gone years of 171 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:19,500 illness without being healed. And in this case it appears that 172 00:09:19,500 --> 00:09:23,700 people are just being healed. Just from touching Jesus just 173 00:09:23,700 --> 00:09:27,000 from physical contact and Jesus is allowing that to happen. 174 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:32,100 So if you can imagine, if you've ever been to the Vatican or even 175 00:09:32,100 --> 00:09:35,200 just a rock star or something, where well, this massive crowd 176 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:38,500 is surging forward to touch the famous person and you're kind of 177 00:09:38,500 --> 00:09:40,800 getting crushed in the process. That's pretty much what's going 178 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:43,600 on here, often in pictures of this. 179 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:46,700 We get you know, picture of a peaceful crowd sitting quietly 180 00:09:46,700 --> 00:09:50,100 and listening to Jesus. It's actually like a mass crowd 181 00:09:50,100 --> 00:09:52,900 that's pressing in and crushing crushing everyone. 182 00:09:54,800 --> 00:10:00,100 Verse 11, we are introduced to an more unclean spirits. 183 00:10:00,100 --> 00:10:03,900 So an unclean spirit is a Jewish term for an unnatural A 184 00:10:03,908 --> 00:10:07,800 supernatural being or also called a demon in the Gospels. 185 00:10:09,300 --> 00:10:12,100 Jews didn't fully understand what these were, but later 186 00:10:12,100 --> 00:10:15,000 Christian Church, teaching tells us tells us that these are 187 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:20,100 Fallen Angels, their bad angels and they presumably need to 188 00:10:20,100 --> 00:10:22,300 inhabit a body in order to be effective. 189 00:10:22,300 --> 00:10:24,000 So that's where we meet them in the gospels. 190 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:26,000 They've taken over people's bodies. 191 00:10:27,500 --> 00:10:30,200 Whenever they saw him, they would fall down before him. 192 00:10:30,500 --> 00:10:33,300 So, presumably, this means the body's there inhabiting a 193 00:10:33,300 --> 00:10:37,200 falling down before Jesus. Now, it's not a sign of worship. 194 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:40,600 In this case, it's a sign of submission to Authority as you 195 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:44,600 would fall down to a King and they share out. 196 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:49,800 You are the son of God. Now, Jesus hasn't told anyone 197 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:51,800 this yet. It's very early in his ministry, 198 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:55,700 he hasn't said to anyone. I am the Son of God but these 199 00:10:55,700 --> 00:10:58,100 demons being supernatural creatures. 200 00:10:58,300 --> 00:11:02,400 They recognize that Jesus is the son of God, this is quite 201 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:06,100 interesting because it tells us the demons, you know, having 202 00:11:06,100 --> 00:11:10,000 inhabited, the spiritual realm in a lot of ways, they know God 203 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,000 better than people do. They know. 204 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:16,000 And they understand that there is in fact, a son of God. 205 00:11:16,900 --> 00:11:18,800 Probably. They might have even seen him 206 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:20,600 working in heaven or something like that. 207 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:23,800 But most Jews struggle to believe that there's a Son of 208 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:25,900 God. But the demons know that even 209 00:11:25,900 --> 00:11:30,300 though they don't, you could say they don't worship God. 210 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:33,000 They know full well that there is a Son of God, so they have 211 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:37,400 their theology, right? You remember later in the Book 212 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:41,900 of James James says, even the demons believe and tremble. 213 00:11:42,500 --> 00:11:47,300 So they know about God and they know that he has a son. so 214 00:11:47,300 --> 00:11:49,900 they're shouting his name here, they're shouting at Jesus, you 215 00:11:49,900 --> 00:11:54,000 are the Son of God and some Scholars think that By doing 216 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:57,200 this, they might be trying to acquire Mastery over. 217 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:00,600 Jesus there was a common view with that time that by using 218 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:05,300 someone's proper name or secret name, you could gain control 219 00:12:05,300 --> 00:12:06,900 over them. So maybe the demons are trying 220 00:12:06,900 --> 00:12:09,800 to get control over Jesus by saying you are the Son of God 221 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:14,700 that's possible as well. Verse 12 but Jesus warned them 222 00:12:14,700 --> 00:12:18,600 strongly or another translation says he strictly ordered them 223 00:12:18,900 --> 00:12:21,200 notice. Jesus is giving orders here to 224 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:23,100 the demons. That tells us he has Authority 225 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:26,300 30 or over them, which makes sense because he is the son of 226 00:12:26,300 --> 00:12:29,700 God. And he tells them not to make 227 00:12:29,700 --> 00:12:31,400 him known. Why? 228 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:34,300 Why does Jesus not want his identity known at this stage, 229 00:12:34,900 --> 00:12:37,800 will Jesus has a timeline of how he want thing wants things to 230 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:39,100 go. And he knows that if his 231 00:12:39,100 --> 00:12:42,500 identity is revealed too early, there could be a bit of mass 232 00:12:42,500 --> 00:12:46,500 hysteria people all think that he's a literal King because they 233 00:12:46,500 --> 00:12:49,900 believe the Messiah is going to set up a literal Jewish Kingdom 234 00:12:49,900 --> 00:12:52,800 and wipe out the Romans. And he knows that if word gets 235 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:56,300 out, that he is actually the Son of God, could all get a bit too 236 00:12:56,300 --> 00:12:59,700 crazy too soon. So at this stage, Jesus wants 237 00:12:59,700 --> 00:13:04,400 his true identity kept quiet. Although later on, he does allow 238 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:08,400 it to be revealed. and apparently his command works, 239 00:13:08,500 --> 00:13:12,900 when Jesus commands the demons, Do not make me known yet, 240 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:15,400 apparently they submit and they don't do that. 241 00:13:17,500 --> 00:13:21,800 So that's our passage today Jesus on the shore there with 242 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:25,300 the crowds coming to him. There's one catechism passage 243 00:13:25,300 --> 00:13:30,300 here which is in 1504 and that's in the section about Christ as a 244 00:13:30,300 --> 00:13:34,900 Healer it says often. Jesus asks the sick to believe 245 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:38,600 he makes use of signs to heal spittle and the laying on of 246 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:43,400 hands mud and washing the sick. Try to touch him for power came 247 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:45,300 forth from him and healed them all. 248 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:50,400 And so in the sacraments Christ continues to touch Us in order 249 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:53,800 to heal us. So that that's a really 250 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:55,200 interesting teaching of the church. 251 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:58,700 There it takes scenes like this one in Mark 3 where people are 252 00:13:58,700 --> 00:14:02,400 literally being healed just by touching Jesus and the church 253 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:06,800 teaches us that basically the same thing happens in the 254 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:10,300 sacraments particularly in the Eucharist and the anointing of 255 00:14:10,300 --> 00:14:14,200 the sick, we also can be touched by Christ and be healed. 256 00:14:15,500 --> 00:14:17,200 Okay. A bit of a shorter podcast 257 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:18,700 today. Hopefully you learned something 258 00:14:18,700 --> 00:14:21,200 new and we'll see you again tomorrow.