Mark’s style and diction
Mark writes to impress upon his readers the rapid, ceaseless energy of the Servant. One can almost feel exhausted after reading Mark, so quickly does the action seem to occur. As one writer said:
“It is sometimes said of a story that “it marches”, but Mark’s …
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Introduction
“The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God…” Thus, Mark commences writing his account of the life of the Lord. “The Son of God” is a title which will shape the narrative which follows. In the first chapter, we see the One over whom the heavens were re…
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Matthew’s plan of writing
Matthew’s gospel is not in chronological order. It is referred to as the ‘didactic (instructive) gospel’ and is like a mosaic of the Master’s teachings, given in different places and at different times, but collected together and arranged to show the Lord as th…
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Four writers, four faces
Why did God see fit to provide us with four accounts of the life and teaching of the Lord? Why not just write one gospel with all the information contained in it?
God chose to use four different men to write a record of His Son’s life. Each record is divinely inspire…
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That nothing be lost
There was no shortage of food provided to the people. They need never go short of spiritual food. Should they do so, then the lack would be due to their own indifference, not due to insufficiency on the Lord’s part. The Lord then sends out the disciples to collect up the le…
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About 2000 years ago, on a spring day in Galilee, thousands of people were gathered together in a desert place to hear the words of one man; to feel his healing touch on their illnesses and to watch in amazement as the lame walked, the deaf heard and the dumb spake. It was on this hillside in Galile…
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About 2000 years ago, Christ wrote to the ecclesia at Laodicea and said, “I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth” (Rev 3:15,16). This attitude of apathy wel…
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