As mentioned in the previous post, I’m doing a 29-day walk-through of the Gospel of Mark with eight TFCers, reading about half a chapter each day and emailing study notes and devotional thoughts each day. At Jared’s request, I’m posting the notes here.
I’ll try to link each day’s notes as I complete them, starting with today’s (Mark 7:1-23) as well as gradually going back and posting and linking older notes. I’m not posting each set of notes as a separate blog entry because that would be too much traffic (I try to keep the blog to a max of 2 posts a week).
Credits: Up until Chapter 4, I was just using Scrogge’s Guide to the Gospels and a single-volume commentary by William MacDonald. For Chapter 4 and later, I borrowed Mark Lind’s Pillar commentary by James R. Edwards (edited by D. A. Carson), which has been excellent.
The Gospel Appears in Person (1:1-13) 13 verses
- The Key to Mark & John the Baptizer: Forerunner of Jesus, The Baptism of Jesus & God’s Son meets God’s Adversaries (1:1-13)
Beginnings of the Galilean Ministry (1:14-45) 32 verses
- The Gospel in a Nutshell, Calling the First Disciples & the Authority of Jesus (1:14-28)
- A Day in the Life of Jesus, Journey Inward/Journey Outward & Jesus Trades Places with a Leper (1:29-45)
Trouble with the Authorities (2:1-3:12) 40 verses
- The Authority of the Son of Man, The Scandal of Grace & Fasting and Feasting (2:1-22)
- Lord of the Sabbath, A Question of Life and Death & The Open-Air Preacher (2:23-3:12)
Insiders and Outsiders (3:13-4:34) 57 verses
- The New Israel, The Binder of the Strong Man & The Parable of the Sower and the Mystery of the Kingdom (3:13-4:20)
- Hiddenness that Reveals & From the Insignificant to the Incomprehensible (4:21-34)
“Who then is this?” (4:35-6:6a) 56 verses
- Jesus – Stiller of Storms & Creation from Chaos (4:35-5:20)
- Faith that Defies Defeat & Prophet without Honor (5:21-6:6a)
Witness to Jews (6:6b-7:23) 74 verses
- The Cost of Discipleship (6:6b-30)
- Feeding the Five Thousand, The “I AM” in the Midst of a Storm & the Man for Others (6:31-56)
- Recovering the True Intent of the Law (7:1-7:23)
Witness to Gentiles (7:24-8:9) 23 verses
- A Gentile who was a “True Israelite”, They will see the Glory of the Lord, The Feeding of the Four Thousand (7:24-8: 9)
Removing the Veil (8:10-9:29) 58 verses
- A Sign of Disbelief, The Enemy Within, the Touch that gives Sight, Peter’s Declaration of Jesus’ Messiahship (8:10-8:30)
- Messiahship and Discipleship, Removing the Veil: The Transfiguration of Jesus, Profiles in Suffering & Frail Faith in a Strong Savior (8:31-9:29)
Mere Discipleship (9:30-50) 21 verses
“On the way” through Judea (10:1-52) 52 verses
- Discipleship and Marriage, Discipleship and Children & Discipleship and Possessions (10:1-31)
- The Third Passion Prediction, Self-Serving Sons of Zebedee and Self-Sacrificing Son of Man & A Model Disciple (10:32-52)
The Barren Temple (11:1-25) 25 verses
Jesus and the Sanhedrin (11:27-12:44) 51 verses
- The Authority of the Son, the Sending of the Son & the test of the Pharisees (11:27-12:17)
- The Test of the Sadducees, the Test of the Scribes, the Question of the Day & the Widow’s Two Cents’ Worth (12:18-44)
Watchfulness in Tribulation and Triumph (13:1-37) 37 verses
- The Destruction of the Temple, Standing Firm Despite Infirmities & the Tribulation (13:1-23)
- The Return of the Son of Man in Glory, the Lesson of the Fig Tree & Expectancy and Vigilance (13:24-37)
The Abandonment of Jesus (14:1-72) 72 verses
- The Sacrifice of Faith, Preparation for the Passover & Oblation and Obduracy (14:1-31)
- Gethsemane: Prelude to the Cross & the Arrest: Judas and Jesus (14:32-52)
- True versus False Witness (14:53-72)
The Cross and the Empty Tomb (15:1-16:8) 55 verses
- Pilate and Jesus & Scourge and Scorn (15:1-20a)
- Crucifixion, the Son of God, Faithfulness versus Fearfulness (15:20b-16:8)
The Longer Ending of Mark (16:9-20) 12 verses
- An Early Christian Resurrection Mosaic (16:9-20)
