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Looking for Jesus according to Mark

68) Looking for Jesus

- In Mark 6:34, Jesus sees a large crowd!

- And he feels pity for them because they don’t have any shepherds!

- And he teaches them!

- Thus Jesus shows his deep concern for people!

- Thus it gives us a good idea of what he will do with God’s kingdom!
 
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  • Remember Eleazar the priest: HE TOOK A SPEAR AND HE KILLED THE ISRAELITE AND THE MIDIANITE WOMAN WHO WERE COMMITTING IMMORALITY IN FRONT OF ALL THE ISRAELITES WHEN THEY WERE WEEPING!

  • WITH ONE ACTION HE STOPPED THE SCOURGE AGAINST
ISRAEL AND YAH.WEH’S ANGER WENT AWAY!

  • BUT 24,000 DIED!

- WHAT ABOUT US?

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  • Many people think they read the Bible but when you listen to them, it is clear they don’t read it!
  • THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO READ THE BIBLE: TO TELL THE PEOPLE ABOUT WHAT YOU READ!
  • IT DOESN’T MATTER IF YOU MAKE MISTAKES!
  • YOU MUST DO IT AGAIN AND AGAIN, THEN YOU WILL START TO LEARN ABOUT THE BIBLE!

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  • In Luke 19, Jesus tells us an interesting illustration about God’s kingdom!
  • An important man must go to a distant land to secure kingly power!
  • To his ten slaves he gives money to do business with it till he comes back!
  • When he comes back, he wants to know what his slaves have done with their business activity!
  • According to what they have done he gives them authority over cities!
  • BUT ONE SLAVE HASN’T DONE ANYTHING!
  • And he takes what he gave to this slave and gives it to the one who did the best job!
  • SO THOSE WHO HAVE MORE WILL BE GIVEN!
  • BUT THOSE WHO DON’T HAVE IT WILL BE TAKEN AWAY WHAT THEY HAVE!
  • What about you?

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  • Maybe you remember that Yah.weh prevented David from building his temple because he was a soldier and he spent a big part of his life making war!
  • Jesus clearly said a Christian can’t do that!
  • In fact, everything we hear in the first part of the Bible has nothing but nothing to do with what a Christian must or mustn’t do!
  • THUS WHEN PEOPLE USE THE FIRST PART OF THE BIBLE TO JUSTIFY ANY PRACTICE IS TOTALLY WRONG AND HAS NOTHING BUT NOTHING TO DO WITH JESUS’ TEACHING!
  • I CAN’T EVEN IMAGINE HOW IT IS POSSIBLE TO THINK ABOUT IT!
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EXODUS 3:15

YAH.WEH THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS – THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB – HAS SENT ME TO YOU.
THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, AND THIS IS HOW I AM TO BE REMEMBERED IN EVERY GENERATION IN EVERY GENERATION.

__________________________________________________________________________

Jesus had siblings :

- Guess what: the Bible is the history of the Israelites!
- Each page tells you that!
- Each story tells you that!
- Each family tells you that!
- The book of Adam's story tells you that!

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Remember:

  • Mark was also called John Mark!
  • His mother’s house was used as a place for believers to gather and pray!
  • He was a companion of Barnabas and Paul during their travels together!
  • Paul and Barnabas had a disagreement about Mark!
  • They separated, Paul took Silas and barnabas Mark!
  • But Mark matured with time!

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Remember:

  • If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
  • They used to write differently!
  • They used to speak differently!
  • They used to think differently!
  • They used to act differently!
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Remember:

Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.

This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.

Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:


  • Point of time (a specific day)
  • time period of a whole or half a day:
    • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
    • Sunrise to sunset
    • Sunset to next sunset
  • General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
  • A year "lived a lot of days"
  • Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"
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The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.

Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.

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69) Looking for Jesus


- In Mark 6:45-52, there is a storm, the disciples are on a boat and Jesus comes to them walking on the sea!

- The disciples think it is an apparition!

- They can’t believe it!

- Then Jesus speaks to them!

- And they are amazed!

- But they shouldn’t!

- After seeing so many miracles from Jesus, they should know that nothing is impossible for Jesus!

- But they are men meaning they are limited!

- What about us?
 
- First I don't teach people!

- I read the Bible and I tell people about what I learn!

- When they ask me questions, I try to answer them!

- When it is possible to have a discussion, we have a discussion!

- If you look at the titles of my threads, I speak about the books of the Bible and especially about the faithful servants of Yah.weh!

- When it is different, it is because many people repeat the same arguments without knowing so I have to show how it works!

- It is necessary to check!

- About John 1:1, it is necessary to check through the Gospel of John about the use of the definite article or not!

- About Jesus' siblings, it is necessary to check the vocabulary used and the context in the different Gospels!

- About the reality of translations, it is necessary to analyze them!

- Before publishing a message, I usually publish the same information connected to the usual mistakes people make!

- Or important facts which must be remembered!


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  • Remember Eleazar the priest: HE TOOK A SPEAR AND HE KILLED THE ISRAELITE AND THE MIDIANITE WOMAN WHO WERE COMMITTING IMMORALITY IN FRONT OF ALL THE ISRAELITES WHEN THEY WERE WEEPING!

  • WITH ONE ACTION HE STOPPED THE SCOURGE AGAINST
ISRAEL AND YAH.WEH’S ANGER WENT AWAY!

  • BUT 24,000 DIED!

- WHAT ABOUT US?

____________________________________________________________

  • Many people think they read the Bible but when you listen to them, it is clear they don’t read it!
  • THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO READ THE BIBLE: TO TELL THE PEOPLE ABOUT WHAT YOU READ!
  • IT DOESN’T MATTER IF YOU MAKE MISTAKES!
  • YOU MUST DO IT AGAIN AND AGAIN, THEN YOU WILL START TO LEARN ABOUT THE BIBLE!

____________________________________________________________
  • In Luke 19, Jesus tells us an interesting illustration about God’s kingdom!
  • An important man must go to a distant land to secure kingly power!
  • To his ten slaves he gives money to do business with it till he comes back!
  • When he comes back, he wants to know what his slaves have done with their business activity!
  • According to what they have done he gives them authority over cities!
  • BUT ONE SLAVE HASN’T DONE ANYTHING!
  • And he takes what he gave to this slave and gives it to the one who did the best job!
  • SO THOSE WHO HAVE MORE WILL BE GIVEN!
  • BUT THOSE WHO DON’T HAVE IT WILL BE TAKEN AWAY WHAT THEY HAVE!
  • What about you?

_______________________________________________________

  • Maybe you remember that Yah.weh prevented David from building his temple because he was a soldier and he spent a big part of his life making war!
  • Jesus clearly said a Christian can’t do that!
  • In fact, everything we hear in the first part of the Bible has nothing but nothing to do with what a Christian must or mustn’t do!
  • THUS WHEN PEOPLE USE THE FIRST PART OF THE BIBLE TO JUSTIFY ANY PRACTICE IS TOTALLY WRONG AND HAS NOTHING BUT NOTHING TO DO WITH JESUS’ TEACHING!
  • I CAN’T EVEN IMAGINE HOW IT IS POSSIBLE TO THINK ABOUT IT!
__________________________________________________________________________

EXODUS 3:15

YAH.WEH THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS – THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB – HAS SENT ME TO YOU.
THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, AND THIS IS HOW I AM TO BE REMEMBERED IN EVERY GENERATION IN EVERY GENERATION.

__________________________________________________________________________

Jesus had siblings :

- Guess what: the Bible is the history of the Israelites!
- Each page tells you that!
- Each story tells you that!
- Each family tells you that!
- The book of Adam's story tells you that!

____________________________________________________________

Remember:

  • Mark was also called John Mark!
  • His mother’s house was used as a place for believers to gather and pray!
  • He was a companion of Barnabas and Paul during their travels together!
  • Paul and Barnabas had a disagreement about Mark!
  • They separated, Paul took Silas and barnabas Mark!
  • But Mark matured with time!

____________________________________________________________

Remember:

  • If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
  • They used to write differently!
  • They used to speak differently!
  • They used to think differently!
  • They used to act differently!
__________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.

This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.

Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:


  • Point of time (a specific day)
  • time period of a whole or half a day:
    • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
    • Sunrise to sunset
    • Sunset to next sunset
  • General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
  • A year "lived a lot of days"
  • Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"
__________________________________________________________________________

The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.

Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.

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70) Looking for Jesus


- In Mark 6:53-56, when Jesus arrives at Gennesaret, it spreads like a fire and everyone arrives where Jesus is!

- And they bring people to be cured!

- And they just need to touch him to be cured!

- It must have been completely crazy!

- And Jesus keeps on curing people!


- Again and again!

- Jesus never complains!
 
71) Looking for Jesus


  • Pharisees and scribes argue with Jesus!
  • They say Jesus’ disciples don’t respect man’s traditions!
  • Jesus answers them calling them hypocrites saying that Isaiah prophesied about them saying:
  • Mark 7:6: These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me!
  • Mark 7:7: They worship me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men!
  • Mark 7:8: You have disregarded the commandment of God to keep the tradition of men!
 
72) Looking for Jesus


Mark 7:13


[Thus] you nullify

ἀκυροῦντες (akyrountes)

Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural

Strong's 208: To annul, make of no effect, cancel. To invalidate.


the

τὸν (ton)

Article - Accusative Masculine Singular

Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.


word

λόγον (logon)

Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular

Strong's 3056: From lego; something said; by implication, a topic, also reasoning or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, the Divine Expression.


of God

Θεοῦ (Theou)

Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular

Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.


by

τῇ (tē)

Article - Dative Feminine Singular

Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.


[the]

ὑμῶν (hymōn)

Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural

Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.


tradition

παραδόσει (paradosei)

Noun - Dative Feminine Singular

Strong's 3862: An instruction, tradition. From paradidomi; transmission, i.e. a precept; specially, the Jewish traditionary law.


you have handed down.

  • Religious leaders oppose Yah.weh’s commandment and word because of man’s tradition they keep transmitting through CORRUPTION!
  • We must make a choice!
  • Do we want to follow Yah.weh’s commandment and word?
  • Or do we want to follow man’s tradition!
  • Man’s tradition is a dead end!
 
73) Looking for Jesus


Mark 7


  • Man’s tradition vs Yah.weh’s word!
  • Hypocrisy vs faithfulness!
  • Rejecting yah.weh’s commandment!
  • They make Yah.weh’s word invalid!
  • Sexual immorality!
  • Theft!
  • Murder!
  • Adultery!
  • Greed!
  • Wickedness!
  • Deceit!
  • Debauchery!
  • Envy!
  • Slander!
  • Arrogance!
  • Foolishness!
 
74) Looking for Jesus


Mark 8


  • Pity for the crowd!
  • Jesus feeds them!
  • The number doesn’t matter!
  • Jesus cures A blind man!
  • He must do it twice!
  • PRECISION!
  • FOLLOWING JESUS MEANS BEING READY FOR ANYTHING!
  • THIS IS THE PRICE FOR ETERNAL LIFE!
  • EVERYTHING HAS A COST!
 
75) Looking for Jesus


Mark 9

  • Jesus must cure a boy who is possessed because his disciples can’t do it!
  • He tells his disciples that he must die and be resurrected!
  • But they don’t understand him!
  • Later his disciples argue about who is the greater among them!
  • So Jesus must explain to them again it can’t be so!
  • Hard work for Jesus indeed!
  • But he knew he would have a lot to do with them!
 
76) Looking for Jesus


Mark 10

  • Pharisees always try to test Jesus!
  • This time it is about divorcing his wife!
  • Jesus explains to them that Moses gave the possibility to divorce their wives because of their hardheartedness!
  • But then he reminds them how it was from the beginning of creation according to Yah.weh!
  • So he tells them that divorcing his wife is a sin!
  • It is not possible to be clearer!
  • When someone calls him a good teacher, he answers by saying only God is good!
  • Once again, it is not possible to be clearer!
  • And he tells the man to sell everything and follow him and participate in his activity!
  • Once again, it is not possible to be clearer!
  • Then James and John want Jesus to grant them to sit at his right and at hit in his kingdom!
  • But Jesus tells them it doesn't belong to him to give such a privilege!
  • Once again, it is not possible to be clearer!
 
77) Looking for Jesus


Mark 10

  • Jesus says it will be difficult for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God!
  • Jesus tells the rich man to sell what he has and follow him!
  • Many watch sports on TV instead of doing them!
  • It is more comfortable to sit in an armchair!
  • Is it the way you think to follow Jesus?
  • Remember Job: he lost everything but his life and because of his faithfulness he received the double!
 
78) Looking for Jesus


Mark 11


  • Jesus curses a fig tree on his way to Jerusalem because he is hungry and the fig tree has no fruit because it is not the season!
  • Some would say: what a strange behavior!
  • Others would think he is in a special mood because of what is coming!
  • Then Jesus cleanses the temple with violence!
  • Some would say: what a strange behavior!
  • Others would think he is in a special mood because of what is coming!
  • And it is his Father’s house!
  • Then he speaks about a den of robbers instead of a house of prayer!
  • Think about Jesus’ attitude when he comes back to cleanse the earth!
  • Will he say a den of robbers speaking about the earth?
  • Then think about Peter’s attitude when he sees what has happened to the fig tree cursed by Jesus!
  • How many behave the same way today?
  • How do you want them to understand the Bible?
  • They will never understand the Bible if they don’t change their attitude!
 
79) Looking for Jesus

Mark 12

- Jesus used to speak to the crowds with parables!

- It is like a 3D picture!

- it is like nature!

- We can see it!

- We can hear it!

- We can smell it!

- We can taste it!

- We can touch it!

- in fact, when we read the books of the prophets, we get the same!

- Yah.weh uses 3D pictures to condemn Israel!

- And people still don’t understand!

- We get 3D warnings!


- And people still don’t understand!

- Because they don’t want to understand!

- But when Yah.weh’s kingdom comes, Jesus will act according to our real attitudes!

- And there won’t be any excuses!
 
80) Looking for Jesus


Mark 12

- On the one hand, there is Jesus who speaks with parables and gives plenty of details!

- On the other hand, there are the religious leaders who can compete with him so they send men to catch him in his words!

- On the one hand, we get power, on the other hand, we get emptiness!

- Why should we choose emptiness instead of power?
 
81) Looking for Jesus

Mark 12

- Here Jesus must answer Pharisees and then sadducees!

- They always invent dead end stories!

- But Jesus keeps answering them again and again with patience despite their stupidity!

- Then he finally says in verse 24:

Jesus

Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous)

Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular

Strong's 2424: Of Hebrew origin; Jesus, the name of our Lord and two other Israelites.


said

Ἔφη (Ephē)

Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular

Strong's 5346: To say, declare. Properly, the same as the base of phos and phaino; to show or make known one's thoughts, i.e. Speak or say.


to them,

αὐτοῖς (autois)

Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Plural

Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.


“Aren’t you mistaken

πλανᾶσθε (planasthe)

Verb - Present Indicative Middle or Passive - 2nd Person Plural

Strong's 4105: To lead astray, deceive, cause to wander. From plane; to roam.


because

διὰ (dia)

Preposition

Strong's 1223: A primary preposition denoting the channel of an act; through.


you do not know

εἰδότες (eidotes)

Verb - Perfect Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural

Strong's 1492: To know, remember, appreciate.


the

τὰς (tas)

Article - Accusative Feminine Plural

Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.


Scriptures

γραφὰς (graphas)

Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural

Strong's 1124: (a) a writing, (b) a passage of scripture; plur: the scriptures. A document, i.e. Holy Writ.


[or]

μηδὲ (mēde)

Conjunction

Strong's 3366: And not, not even, neither�nor. From me and de; but not, not even; in a continued negation, nor.


the

τὴν (tēn)

Article - Accusative Feminine Singular

Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.


power

δύναμιν (dynamin)

Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular

Strong's 1411: From dunamai; force; specially, miraculous power.


of God?

Θεοῦ (Theou)

Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular

Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.

  • Thus he first answers them!
  • Then he shows them how stupid they are!
  • Because of their attitude!
  • They think they know everything when they know nothing!
 
82) Looking for Jesus

Mark 12

  • More parables!
  • They don’t understand!
  • They do exactly as Jesus tells them!
  • Then they keep showing their stupidity!
  • They never understand anything!
  • Because they don’t want to understand!
  • Do we want to understand?
  • Or do we stay away from Yah.weh’s knowledge?
 
83) Looking for Jesus

Mark 13


- Jesus tells his disciples that many will come in his name and will mislead many!

- There will be wars!

- Earthquakes!

- Food shortages!

- Jesus’ disciples must be ready to be persecuted!

- The message about Yah.weh’s kingdom will be preached!

- then Jesus announces the coming of a foreign army will be the sign for Jesus’ disciples to flee away to the mountains!

- Jesus speaks about total destruction!

- Then Jesus speaks about a tribulation when the sun and the moon get dark and the stars fall down and the powers in the heavens are shaken and the coming of Jesus in the clouds with great power and glory to gather all his chosen ones from everywhere in the earth!

- Then Jesus’ disciples are told to keep on the watch!

- It was true before the destruction of Jerusalem!

- It is still true today!

- it depends on us to be careful or not about Jesus’ warning!
 
84) Looking for Jesus

Mark 14

- Jesus is dining at Simon the leper!

- A woman comes and puts perfume oil on jesus’ head!


- It is very expensive!

- Jesus says she does a good thing because it is in preparation for Jesus' burial!

- Then Judas Iscariot goes to the chief priests to betray Jesus!

- At night, when Jesus eats with his disciples, he tells them that one of them is going to betray him!

- And when he celebrates with them, he tells them that he is going to die and they will be scattered!

- But he will be raised up and will meet them in Galilee!

- Then he tells Peter that he will disown him three times before a rooster crows twice!

- Then Jesus takes Peter and James and John along with him!

- And he tells them to keep on the watch!

- And they can see he is deeply distressed!

- Then Jesus prays to his Father!

- And three times he comes back to them!

- And each time they fall asleep!

- And a crowd led by Judas takes him to custody!

- Thus right to the end, the disciples understand nothing!

- This is a message for us!

- Will we understand or not right to the end?

- It’s up to us to prepare and get ready!
 
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