34. Marriage and Divorce
In this passage, Jesus comes under attack once again from the Pharisees with a trick question. And Jesus uses this opportunity to give us some teaching about marriage and divorce.
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In this passage, Jesus comes under attack once again from the Pharisees with a trick question. And Jesus uses this opportunity to give us some teaching about marriage and divorce.
Jesus continues to teach His disciples using extreme language. It includes a subject that you will rarely hear about these days.
Jesus spends time with the twelve disciples and deals with two issues that are important for us today.
When Jesus comes down from the mount of transfiguration with the three inner circle disciples, He comes across an issue involving a possessed boy. How He deals with it has some importance lessons for us.
Six days after the important prophecy given by Jesus in Verse 1, Mark records a remarkable event. This is known as The Transfiguration.
In this study I am going to look at one verse. I am going to use this one difficult verse as an exercise in how to interpret scripture properly.
At the end of the last study we saw that the disciples finally understood that Jesus is the Christ. But as we will see in this study, they don't understand what it means to be the Messiah and what that entails.
At the end of the last study, we saw that the disciples still didn't understand who Jesus really was. But by the end of today's passage, the disciples finally get it. And before that happens, Jesus heals a blind man in two stages.
As on a previous occasion Jesus finds Himself confronted by a large hungry crowd.
In today's passage we see Jesus setting a man free from bondage. We are all born into bondage or slavery but through faith in Jesus we can be set free too.