Study 22 - Suffering at the Hands of His Friends
MARK CHAPTER 14:27-52
Study leader: Greg
Refreshments: Greg and Judy
1. Have you faced a particularly difficult situation in the past year? Who provided you with the most support?
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3. How do the disciples contrast with Jesus throughout this entire passage? What is it in them that we would not want to imitate?
4. Why does Jesus ask his disciples to come with him to Gethsemane? What does he ask them to do while they are there?
5. What details tell us the horror of Jesus' situation in this passage?
6. What comfort is there for us in realizing the extent of anguish and suffering Jesus went through? How would you concretely appropriate and access this comfort in the midst of difficult trials?
7. How is Jesus' prayer, "Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will!" a model for our own prayer life? How do we fall short of this? What enabled him to pray like that?
8. How does the approach of Jesus' captors towards him differ from his approach to them?
9. Why do the disciples deny Jesus? What lessons can we learn from their failure?
10. What do you suppose we are to make of Mark's reference to the young man who fled naked (v. 52)?