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Introduction
This morning we are continuing our study in the book of Mark.
Today we come to the sixth chapter of the book.
If you have your Bibles, I want to encourage you to turn with me to Mark chapter 6.
As we begin today, we are going to look at four stories.
Jesus in His Home Town (Mk 6:1-6)
Jesus sending out the 12 (Mk 6:6-13)
The Execution of John the Baptist (Mk.
6:14-30)
The feeding of the 5,000 (Mk 6:30-44)
Now it is ambitious to want to get through these four stories in 30 minutes!
So I’m going to have to go fast.
So put your track shoes on and let’s get running!
Jesus In His Home Town
When you come to chapter 6 we read,
Jesus goes back to Nazareth—the town in which he grew up.
On the Sabbath He goes into the synagogue and begins to teach—and everyone who heard it is blown away by His teaching.
Notice they are asking, “Where did this man get these things.”
and “What’s this wisdom that has ben given him, that he even does miracles!”
But as amazed as they are the can’t get past the fact that this guy grew up with them.
Look at verse 3.
They took offense at him, because they knew Jesus’ earthly family.
They knew they were nothing “special.”
Yet Jesus had a response.
Because of their lack of faith, Jesus did not heal the people He could have healed—they missed an opportunity!
Don’t miss the first part of verse 6, “And he was amazed at their lack of faith.”
Think about this statement—those that should have known Him refused to believe in Him!
Question: How many of us—who should recognize and understand what Jesus can do in our lives—still lack faith?
The second part of verse 6 says, “Then Jesus went around teaching from village to village.”
So Jesus went to the little villages—we would call them small towns!
And everywhere He went He taught the people.
Jesus Sends Out the Twelve
In the next several verses, Mark tells us that Jesus sent out the 12 disciples to teach.
And gave them these instructions.
Mark gives us a quick look at the disciples’ message and at their results.
Look at verse 12.
The Execution of John the Baptist
Mark takes the next 16 verses to tell us the story of how John the Baptist died.
In the interest of time, I’m going to simply recap the story for you.
John had been imprisoned by King Herod (the Roman figure head for Galilee).
Herod like to listen to John teach—but his “wife” hated John.
Herod was married to Herodias, Herod’s brother’s wife—and John had called them out on it.
Herodias was trying to find a way to have John killed—but because Herod enjoyed listening to him preach she couldn’t.
Herod threw a great party.
At the part Herodias’ daughter danced for everyone and it greatly please Herod—the word translated “dance” means a provocative type of dance.
Herod was so pleased that he made a oath that the daughter (Salome) could ask for anything up to half of the kingdom.
Salome did not know what to ask for so at the prompting of her mother, Herodias, she asked for the head of John the Baptist on a platter.
So Herod had John the baptizer beheaded and the head brought to Salome on a platter—and the girl took the head and gave it to her mother, Herodias.
The Feeding of the Five-Thousand
Now we return to the story of Jesus and His disciples.
Look at verse 30.
We are not told how long they were out teaching, but when they come back there’s not time to debrief.
There are people everywhere!
So Jesus decides that they should get away from the crowd for a bit—so He has them get in a boat so they can go to a lonely place—They were headed out to the middle of nowhere!
But that plan did not work!
Look at verse 33.
Picture this—Jesus and His disciples leave the crowd and go by boat to the other side of the Sea of Galilee so that He can be alone with His disciples.
But when they arrive on the other side of the lake the people have run ahead of them, gathering people as they go, and they are waiting for Jesus!
A bigger crowd is there than the one they left!
But look at how Jesus responds!
Jesus was filled with compassion for the people.
The Greek word translated here “compassion” means: great affection, love, pity, or deep empathy.
Jesus cared for the people!
Question: When people mess up your plans—do you have compassion (or love) for them?
So Jesus is teaching away and it begins to get late—most likely it is late afternoon, around three or four.
The disciples are NOT feeling the compassion for the people.
Look at the suggestion they give Jesus.
Look Jesus, it’s going to be dark soon.
Send the people away so they can go find some place to eat!
This place isn’t big enough to have the good places like Chick-a-filet!
To some it may sound as though they are caring for the people—but in reality I think they wanted the people gone.
They were tired, and they wanted to share their experiences with Jesus!
But Jesus would have no part of it!
Look at His response!
Jesus tells His disciples to feed the mob!
And the disciples think Jesus has lost His mind!
There is no way they could feed this huge crowd!
Look at their response!
“That would take eight months of a man’s wages!
Are we to go and spend that much on bread and give it to them to eat?”
This objection is logical!
But Jesus did not do things by man’s logic!
Eight months wages was an exorbitant amount!
And that was assuming they could find a place to get the food!
Remember there were NO fast food restaurants, and they are out in the middle of nowhere!
Even after all of their objections Jesus’ reply is the same!
Jesus tells them to look and see what they have!
And what they find is five loaves and two fish.
Now don’t get too excited—these are like five little dinner rolls—a guy could eat 5 or 6 with a meal.
As for the fish, these are two small sardine sized fish, that had most likely been smoked and dried.
So they don’t have much to work with! 5 small rolls and two dried smoked sardines.
Jesus’ next command shocks them.
Jesus tells His disciples to have them sit in groups—50 to 100 per group.
And they are to sit down on the grass—Mark is the only one of the gospel writers that mentions the green grass.
The disciples follow Jesus’ orders and the people are seated on the grass in groups of 50 to 100 per group.
Now comes yet another of Jesus’ miracles!
So from these 5 small rolls and the 2 little sardines—the disciples began to feed the people—and the fed them ALL!
In fact look at the next verse!
Read that again!
They all ate and were satisfied.
Everyone ate and everyone ate their fill!
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