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Showing posts with label Search The Scriptures —Study 19 — Mark 9:30-50. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Search The Scriptures —Study 19 — Mark 9:30-50. Show all posts

13 April, 2016

Search The Scriptures —Study 19 — Mark 9:30-50

Study 19 From The Book of Mark is: Mark 9:30-50


With this study we will stop with the book of Mark, to be continued at a later time, then delve into the book of Deuteronomy.
1.      Verses 33-37. How does Jesus explain the way to become spiritually great?  What especially ought we to learn from the example of a little child? Cf. Mt. 18:4.
2.     Verses 38-41.  What three reasons does Jesus give here why the disciples should not have acted as they did? Why did they fail to gain similar understanding about His teaching concerning what was going to happen to Him (verses 30-32)?
3.     Verses 43-48.  What spiritual truth is Jesus seeking to convey here? In what sense are we to cut off a foot, or pluck out an eye? Why may it be necessary to apply such drastic measures?
Notes
1.      Verses 44, 46, 48. ‘Gehenna’ (Greek) is a conference to the Valley of Himmon outside Jerusalem where the refuse of the city was cast and burnt.  It had become a synonym for ‘hell’ i.e., the place of final ruin and destruction.
2.     Verse 49. ‘Salted with fire’: subjected to a fiery process of discipline to purge out corruption.  Cf. 1 Pet. 4:17; Heb. 12:11.