Caleb :: Mark Study Notes

Mark Study Notes

= CHAPTER 2, 13-17

13: Once again Jesus went out beside the lake. A large crowd came to him, and he began to teach them.

* common practice to teach while walking
* Jesus banned from synigogs
** shunned by his own house

14: As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax collector's booth. "Follow me," Jesus told him, and Levi got up and  follwed him.

* tax collectors despised
** levi worked for Herod Antipas in Galilee, not the Romans in Judea
** disliked today, but hated then.
** nobody would consider them friend or company

* think about how people treated levi
** how he felt - acted
** ache in his heart?
** saw Jesus around? stood around at his teachings?
** had no way out of bad society, religious leaders shuned him
** knew knew he was a sinner, but was no place a sinner could go
** world was lacking a savior for the lost. had a way for the 'right'

* Jesus attitude as he walked along
** ever walked along and looked for needy people
** Jesus never saw people and shunned them
** pray for people you see that are needy, anoy you, whatever

* called Levi to follow as he walked by
** Levi didn't hesitate
** left his job, getting up and leaving meant giving up his work
** could not go back, like the fishermen
** staked everything, why
** knew something was different about christ
** desperate for a way out of the hole society had him in

* called Levi to give up the most to follow
** you give up anything?
** I did, story of drafting, software design/architecture
** accepted christ at seven, ten years sought my own way
** gave up to him, seek him
** sent me a new direction, missions and AE, programming

* Levi wrote journaled what he say
** served as a reference for the gospel of Mathew

15: While Jesus was having dinner at Levi's house, many tax collectors and 'sinners' were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many whol followed him.

* who were sinners
** commonly those not pharasies.
** not just those who had done wrong
** scribal law, not moral law
** outcasts today?

* people that had followed him durring the day
** riff-raff of the day if they would hang out with Levi

16: When the teachers of the law who were Parisees saw him eating with the "sinners" and dax collectors, they asked his disciples: "Why     does he eat with tax collectors and 'sinners'?"

* in the orthadox tradition
** not good to be with this class of society
** would not eat, do buisness, or say hi to on the street
** Jesus flew in the face of all of that

17: On hearing this, Jesus said to them, "It is not the healty who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteus, but   sinners."

* not saying Jesus did not come for the 'good'
** all are sick, but only some realize they need it
** phrarisees didn't think they needed help
** sinners longed for a cure
** you can try to get to heaven on your own
** if you know you need help, Jesus came to offer it

* sinners know they cannot fix themselves
** Romans 5:6 +< -- You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.

= CHAPTER 2, 18-20

18: Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. Some people came and asked Jesus, "How is it that John's disciples and the         disciples of the Parisees are fasting, but yoours are not?"

* John still around
** voice of one crying in the wilderness
** job to prepare the way
** tradition to fast twice a week for the religious, mo & th
** once a year required - day of atonement

* Reasons to fast
** remind us how much we have
** reminder to concentrate on what's really important
** remind us that we are master over our flesh
** lean to value what we have

* Pharisees again
** nit-picking religious busy bodies
** whining -- johns are fasting and yours aren't so why not?

19: Jesus answered, "How can the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? They cannot, so long as they have him with them.

* Jewish wedding
** no honeymoon, week long feasting
** special guests stayed all week
** excempted from all fasting rules

* Life with Christ is characterized by joy
** joy not happyness
** seeing realy joy in people even through persecution

20: But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and on that day they will fast.

* Jesus was going to leave
** warning those around him
** predicting his death
** knew about the cross early on
** still willing to take that road

= QUR'AN

* reasoned from last week
** sins can only be forgiven by those they were committed to
** only God could forgive all sins
** Jesus claimed to forgive all the paralitics sins
** Jesus proved he could do that by also healing the physical
** Jesus made claim to be God, and added proof

* Mohhamed supposed to be prophet, along with Jesus
** All mixed up with who Jesus was
** Mohamed sinned, had to be forgiven,
** Jesus sinless
** no explanation of purpose of Jesus

35.18: PICKTHAL: And no burdened soul can bear another's burden,

19:19: PICKTHAL: ...send to you a fautless son

48:2: PICKTHAL: That Allah may forgive thee of thy sin that which is past and that which is to come, and may perfect His favour unto thee,  and may guide thee on a right path.