Give Me Jesus: Jesus As the Pure Bread of Life: Mark 8:1-21

I. Jesus’ Sign to the Gentiles vs. 1-9

A. Jesus care about our everyday needs.

B. These Gentiles stayed 3 days and couldn’t go back home with no food.

C. What we see as a desolate place Jesus sees as fruitful.

D. 7 is the number of completion, they had 7 loaves and a few fish, and 7 baskets of leftovers, showing that this was completed. 12 to show that He provided for the Jews, and 7 to show that He provides for the Gentiles as well.

II. Jesus’ Rebuke to the Pharisees vs. 10-13

A. When Jesus returned to the Jews, He was not accepted but tested.

B. The Pharisees like so many others wanted a sign.

Matthew 16:2–4 NASB95

But He replied to them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ “And in the morning, ‘There will be a storm today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Do you know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but cannot discern the signs of the times? “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and a sign will not be given it, except the sign of Jonah.” And He left them and went away.

C. Jesus left them, while angry (signing deeply in His Spirit). The Pharisees were too busy, and spiritually blind to be scared, that Jesus was leaving them in their sins.

Ezekiel 10:18 NASB95

Then the glory of the Lord departed from the threshold of the temple and stood over the cherubim.

III. Jesus’ Reminder to the Disciples vs. 14-21

A. Jesus used the familiar metaphor of leaven being a picture of evil. Jesus was saying that tradition that leads to a religion without relationship with Himself, is evil.

B. We are just like the disciples. We have a short memory and have to be reminded of what God has done.

C. Why do we not understand?