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Mark 5:1-13: Jesus and the Demon Possessed Man
Mark 5:1-13 They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. 2 And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit. 3 He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a…
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Mark 3:31-35: Who Are my Brothers and Sisters?
Mark 3:31-35 31 And his mother and his brothers came, and standing outside they sent to him and called him. 32 And a crowd was sitting around him, and they said to him, “Your mother and your brothers are outside, seeking you.” 33 And he answered them, “Who are my mother and my brothers?” 34 And looking about at those who sat around him, he…
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Mark 3:7-20: Crowds and Discipleship Groups
Mark 3 7 Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea 8 and Jerusalem and Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him. 9 And he told his disciples to have…
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Mark 2:27-28: How to Rest Properly
Mark 2:27-28 27 And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. 28 So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.” Rules…. We can always be caught up by lots of rules that instead of liberating us, binds us. I experienced first hand in Israel – Sabbath. I went to the comfort…
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Mark 2:21-22 Out with the Old, In with the New
Mark 2:21-22 21 No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made. 22 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins—and the wine is destroyed, and…