Questions for the study: 1. * Was there ever a time in your life where you felt fairly helpless and dependent? If so, what did you learn from that situation?
READ Mark 6:1-29 2. * Why do people in Jesus' home-town react so negatively towards him? 3. * How does this passage support what we have already learned about faith and what new insights do we gain about faith and unbelief? 4. * Why does Jesus instruct the Twelve as he does? What was he trying to teach them? 5. * In what ways do you think the instructions given to them are applicable to us, if at all? What is not applicable? 6. How do verses 14-15 reiterate the theme of the first half of Mark's gospel? 7. * Mark's account of John the Baptist's death is longer than the other gospels. What is Mark’s purpose? What features of the story tie it to other sections of our study? * What does it suggest about Jesus? 8. * Why do you think Mark sandwiched this account of the death of John in between the mission and the reporting back of the Twelve (vs 7-13; v30)? 9. * How are we to respond to persecution when it comes? What forms does it take in our culture?
Questions for the study:
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dependent? If so, what did you learn from that situation?
READ Mark 6:1-29
2. * Why do people in Jesus' home-town react so negatively towards him?
3. * How does this passage support what we have already learned about faith and what new insights do we gain about faith and unbelief?
4. * Why does Jesus instruct the Twelve as he does? What was he trying to teach them?
5. * In what ways do you think the instructions given to them are applicable to us, if at all? What is not applicable?
6. How do verses 14-15 reiterate the theme of the first half of Mark's gospel?
7. * Mark's account of John the Baptist's death is longer than the other gospels.
What is Mark’s purpose? What features of the story tie it to other sections of our study? * What does it suggest about Jesus?
8. * Why do you think Mark sandwiched this account of the death of John in between the mission and the reporting back of the Twelve (vs 7-13; v30)?
9. * How are we to respond to persecution when it comes? What forms does it take in our culture?