Sep. 08, 2024

Last week we ended with verse 3 of Chapter 6 where Jesus offended the people of his hometown. They just couldn’t understand where He got all his wisdom and power. Isn’t this the carpenter and are not his brothers and sisters here with us. Today we pick up with Jesus’ reaction to his neighbors.

Mark Lesson 9 Study Questions

1.    A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country: Jesus accepted _________ as price a faithful prophet must pay, though it must have hurt Him badly to be _________ by friends and neighbors.

2.    He could do no mighty work: His work was limited in this climate of ________. In this sense, Jesus’ power was limited by the _________ of His countrymen.

3.    And began to send them out two by two: In the Gospel of John, Jesus said, as the Father has sent Me, I also send you (John 20:21). Here, Jesus sent out His disciples to do the same things that He did: _______, ______ the sick, and _____ people from demonic possession.

4.    In that day, if Jewish people had to go in or through a Gentile city, as they left they would shake the dust off their feet. It was a gesture that said, “We don’t want to take _________ from this Gentile city with us.” Essentially, Jesus told them to regard a Jewish city that _____ their message as if it were a Gentile city.

5.    They went out and preached: To preach simply means to _________, to tell others in the sense of announcing news to them. Some of the best and most effective preaching never happens inside a _____. It happens when followers of Jesus are one-on-one with others, telling about what Jesus did for them.

6.    This is John, whom I beheaded; he has been raised from the dead: Herod feared Jesus was John the Baptist. Herod’s confusion came from his own _______ conscience. It is hard to see clearly who Jesus is when we are in ____ and __________.

7.    For John had said to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.” When he preached ___________, John did not spare the rich and powerful. He called Herod and his wife Herodias to ________, because Herodias had been the wife of Herod’s brother Philip.

8.    And the king was exceedingly sorry; yet, because of the oaths and because of those who sat with him, he did not want to refuse her: Because Herod was afraid to cross his wife or lose face before his friends, he did something he knew to be _________.

9.    Come aside by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while: The disciples came back from a successful time of _________, being sent by Jesus into the towns of Galilee (Mark 6:7-12). When they returned, Jesus knew they needed a time of rest. Jesus knew when it was time to _______, and He knew when it was time to ______.

10.    Send them away… for they have nothing to eat: Both Jesus and the disciples saw exactly the same _____ among the multitude. The disciple’s solution was to get rid of the need by getting rid of the _______. Jesus saw a different solution and wanted the disciples to see it also (You give them something to eat).

11.    How many loaves do you have? Go and see: God’s way of provision always begins with what we _________ have. He wants us to use what we already have wisely. Don’t foolishly pray for more from God if you don’t use what He ________ has given you in a godly way.

12.    He looked up to heaven, blessed and broke the loaves: When Jesus blessed before the meal, He didn’t bless the food; He blessed ____ for supplying it. The idea of praying before a meal isn’t to bless the food; it is to bless God in the sense of thanking and honoring Him for ________ us with the food.

13.    The assurance that Jesus can provide – even miraculously – for all of our needs should be _________ to us; it was to the earliest Christians. On the walls of the catacombs, and other places of early Christian art, loaves and fishes are _________ pictures.