Scripture Reading: Mark 3:20-35 (ESV) Then he went home, and the crowd gathered again, so that they could not even eat. And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, “He is out of his mind.” 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.” And he called them to him and said to them in…
Scripture Reading: Mark 3:7-19 (ESV) Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea 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. And he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they crush him, for he had healed many, so that all who…
In Mark 2, Jesus is confronted with a man whose most obvious need is physical healing. Carried by four determined friends, the paralytic is lowered through the roof into the presence of Jesus. Everyone in the room expects one thing: healing. Instead, Jesus does something shocking. He looks at the man and says, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” This moment reveals something essential about who Jesus is and what he came to do. Jesus identifies our deepest need before addressing…