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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 3:22-28: Spiritual Warfare and the Unforgivable Sin
Mark 3:22-28 22 And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and “by the prince of demons he casts out the demons.” In this text, we see the Pharisees trying to discredit the ministry of Jesus by saying that the reason he can cast out demons is that 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 3:1-12 People are Watching
Mark 3:1-12 Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand.2 And they watched Jesus, to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him. 3 And he said to the man with the withered hand, “Come here.” 4 And he said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good…
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I never thought I’ll be an author
until someone told me I can do it. Thanks, Chinkee Tan! Imagine if nobody pushed me to fulfill a lifelong dream that I had when I was a fresh graduate. I also wanted to write a book, in fact, some people told me that I was going to write one. In my mind, I asked,…