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Twist family Bible study: the Gospel of Mark
Wayne:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on December 11, 2007, 12:07:21 am ---this is where Jesus himself learns ... that his mission has a broader implication
--- End quote ---
:) I like that! Thanks Jeff ...
Wayne:
So on to Mark 8. Here is the textM and here's the Wikipedia writeup.
The feeding of the crowd is repeated, this time starting with 7 loaves and a few fish, and ending with 7 baskets of bread.
He gives sight to a Gentile man who had been blind. He sees them like trees, walking around. Jesus lays hands on hiw eyes again and his sight is restored.
Wayne:
Alone with the disciples, Jesus asks who people think he is. The disciples tell him people think he is John the Baptist raised from the dead (as Herod thought), or Elijah.
The reference to Elijah is important because Malachi, the closing book of the Jewish scriptures, ends with a promise from God that he will send Elijah.
Elijah's purpose will be to "restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers," before "the day will come, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze"
Wayne:
Jesus asks "But who do you say that I am?" and Peter says "You are the Christ."
"Christ" is the Greek version of the Hebrew word "Messiah" or anointed one.
Mark 8:31-32: He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. And He was stating the matter plainly.
Wayne:
The disciples have been debating who among them will be rewarded with the greatest positions in the new kingdom, but Jesus reveals some deep ironies.
34 If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.
35 For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel's will save it.
36 For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?
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