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Our Focus: What Jesus Did and Taught

Mark’s Focus - Jesus as the Royal Servant | Behavior of Disciples

Chapters 1-8 Actually might have a heavier emphasis on Servant and 9-16 on Kingdom.

Start with Transfiguration in 9, building to an unmissable crescendo in 11 with the Triumphal entry and growing still more reach Creation’s Loudest Notes in chapters 15-16 with the Death, Burial, and Resurrection

Preview

Key Word: Kingdom (Mk 9:47; 10:14-15,23,24,25, bonus points for Son of David in Mk 10:47,48)

Mark 9:33-35

as the disciples had been bickering on their way about whom was greatest, Jesus laid down the great Christian truth that must govern the mind of every disciple - If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.

Mark 9:36-42

John either

rudely interrupted - like Peter might have

is quoted here by Mark for thematic emphasis at the cost of chronological accuracy

understood Jesus perfectly

38-41 seems like an interruption in Jesus’ discourse centered on the child that he’s placed in their midst (36) to exemplify the purity, humility, and innocence Jesus desires in his disciples; but I don’t think it is; at least, I think Mark places this question from James here because Jesus’ answer is very well connected to his statement not only about receiving disciples, but also how his disciples should convey themselves.

Mark 9:43-50

Final teaching in this chapter for Kingdom Behavior: Be at Peace with one another