Looking for Jesus according to Mark

[JLG]

25) Jesus vs the religious leaders

Mark 11: In Jerusalem, Jesus enters the temple and starts to oppose the merchants who are inside the temple selling their goods!

- He also teaches and telling them that they have turned God’s house of prayer into a cave of robbers!

- And the chief priests and the scribes are looking for a way to kill him !

- But they are in fear of him, because all the crowd is astounded at his teaching !

- It is incredible !

- We see Jesus acting against the robbers in God’s temple !

- And what do the religious leaders think about ?

- Killing Jesus !

- They are completely dead !

- They don’t care about God’s temple !

- They don’t care about God !

- They don’t care about the people !

- They only care about themselves !

- They are ridiculous !

- How is it possible to listen to such people ?

- They are blind !​

 

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26) looking for Jesus

Mark 1: Jesus meets a leper who begs him to make him clean!

- Jesus is moved with pity!

- So he cures him all at once and he becomes clean!

- All the time we see Jesus expressing his feelings!

- Thus he shows himself a real leader!

- Someone who cares about people!

- Someone who can understand their pain and sufferance!

- Someone who is not corrupted!



- Someone who is not looking for money all the time!

 

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27) looking for Jesus

Mark 1: Atfter evening has fallen, he people bring others who are ill to be cured by Jesus!

- So he cures many of them and expells demons!

- Jesus spends the whole day curing people !

- But people keep coming !

- And he keeps curing them without resting !

- It tells a lot about his work capacity !

- Of course, he is tired !

- But he cares about people !

- And he doesn’t complain !

- Of course, he knows he works for God !

- Of course, it helps a lot !

 

[JLG]

28) Looking for Jesus

Mark 1: Early in the morning, while it is still dark, he gets up and goes outside and leaves for an isolated place, and there he begins praying. However, Simon and those with him hunt him down and finds him, and they say to him: “Everyone is looking for you.” But he says to them: “Let us go somewhere else, into the towns nearby, so that I may preach there also, for this is why I have come.”

- Jesus came to transmit God’s message !

- He didn’t come to spend his time to cure people or to feed them !

- Everything he made was to transmit God’s message !

- Of course, many were only interested in food and cure or basic needs!

- Many are and were not conscious of their spiritual needs and their connection to God!

- Indeed, we are animals!

- And it is often difficult to see the difference!

- Animals are often more human than men!

- It shows how far this world is from God!

- But Jesus told us how men would behave!​

 

[JLG]

29) Looking for Jesus

Mark 1: There also came to him a leper, pleading with him even on bended knee, saying to him: “If you just want to, you can make me clean.”At that he was moved with pity, and he stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him: “I want to! Be made clean.” Immediately the leprosy vanished from him, and he became clean. Then he gave him strict orders and at once sent him away, saying to him: “See that you say nothing to anyone, but go show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing the things Moses directed, for a witness to them.”

- First Jesus is moved with pity!

- Thus he analyzes the situation!

- Second he stretches out his hand and touches the leper!

- Thus he needs physical contact!

- Third he speaks to the leper saying he is going to cure him!

- Thus he communicates to the leper!

- Fourth the leper is cured!​

- Thus we get the result!

- Fifth Jesus tells the leper to go to the priest and makes the offer for his cleansing!

- Thus we see Jesus in action where everything is well organized, nothing is left to chance!

- Thus he will be perfect to clean this world when he comes back as a warrior and a king!

 

[JLG]

30) Looking for Jesus

Mark 2: seeing the faith of the men who bring the paralytic, Jesus tells the paralytic that his sins are forgiven!

- Jesus expresses his feelings straight away!

- sitting there, some of the scribes think Jesus is blaspheming!

- Knowing what they are thinking, Jesus asks them why!

- And he knows what the scribes think!

- So he asks them what is easier to say to the paralytic your sins are forgiven or get up and pick up your stretcher and walk!

- And he answers them straight away by curing the paralytic!

- Jesus is not only someone who teaches and who knows what to say at the right time, he knows how to act on time!

- All his actions are well organized and synchronized!

So they are all astonished and glorify God!

- The result is efficiency and Jesus proves right!

 

[JLG]

31) Looking for Jesus

Mark 2:

- Again he went out alongside the sea, and all the crowd kept coming to him, and he began to teach them.

- When I think of both Jesus and Paul, I see the same zealous people teaching again and again people!

- And as he was passing by, he caught sight of Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax office, and he said to him: “Be my follower.” At that he rose up and followed him.

- Once again, when we remember Paul, we know that Jesus knew who he was and chose him in consequence!

- With the apostles, it was the same!

- Of course, they were imperfect men!

- But he had time to teach them progressively!

- And he didn’t choose scribes or Pharisees!

 

[JLG]

32) Looking for Jesus

Mark 2:

- Later he was dining in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners were dining with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many of them who were following him. But when the scribes of the Pharisees saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they began saying to his disciples: “Does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”On hearing this, Jesus said to them: “Those who are strong do not need a physician, but those who are ill do. I came to call, not righteous people, but sinners.”

- Jesus came on earth to help everybody to learn about God and to repent!

- He had a special mission!

- He would spend all his time on earth to do it!

- He would train disciples to keep on doing his mission after his death!

- He has always been working with and for God his Father!

- Things have always been clear for him!

- No doubt!

- And it was not an easy job!

- His death was also n ot an easy death!

- But he was ready to do his Father’s will!

- When we think of Abraham, it was the same readiness to do God’s will!

- That’s how we can recognize a true faithful servant of God!

- It also means we have to make strong efforts to look like them!

- Because it is not easy!

- And we must develop excellent qualities!

 

[JLG]

33) Looking for Jesus

Mark 2:

Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees practiced fasting. So they came and said to him: “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees practice fasting, but your disciples do not practice fasting?” So Jesus said to them: “While the bridegroom is with them, the friends of the bridegroom have no reason to fast, do they? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. But days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast on that day.

- We see Jews!

- They are supposed to know their history!

- They are supposed to wait for Messiah!

- They see Jesus’ miracles!

- No one could do the same!

- They were unable to follow Moses’ Law!

- And yet they speak about man’s tradition!

- Their minds and hearts are empty!

- How do you want them to understand Jesus’ message!

- That’s the same today with humanity!

- Why should it be different!

- Man is equal to himself!

- What is our personal choice?

 

[JLG]

34) Looking for Jesus

Mark 2:

- Nobody sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old outer garment. If he does, the new piece pulls away from the old, and the tear becomes worse. Also, no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost as well as the skins. But new wine is put into new wineskins.

- Jesus tells us to be careful when we act!

- He did many miracles so people could see he came from God!

- He was able to teach any kind of people!

- He could use simple words!

- But he never forgets his mission!

- He came to tell people about God!

- He didn’t come to feed them or cure them!

- Everything was in connection with God’s word!

- Now there are many Bible translations!

- Did the translators follow Jesus’ example by using simple words or words easy to understand or did they make things to make it more difficult to understand!

- If people don’t understand you, what is the interest?

 

[JLG]

35) Looking for Jesus

Mark 2:

- Now as he was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, his disciples started to pluck the heads of grain as they went. So the Pharisees said to him: “Look here! Why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” But he said to them: “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and the men with him were hungry? How, in the account about Abiathar the chief priest, he entered into the house of God and ate the loaves of presentation, which it is not lawful for anybody to eat except the priests, and he also gave some to the men who were with him?” Then he said to them: “The Sabbath came into existence for the sake of man, and not man for the sake of the Sabbath. So the Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”

- The Israelites and the Jews showed themselves unable to follow the Law!

- Jesus came to accomplish the Law!

- The Law was over!

- After Jesus’ death, some Jews who became disciples tried to force the disciples who weren’t Jews to get circumcised!

- The answer from the apostles was clear in Acts 15:

- The disciples should abstain from:

- THINGS POLLUTED BY IDOLS,

- SEXUAL IMMORALITY,

- WHAT IS STRANGLED,

- BLOOD.

- In fact, nothing has changed!

- Even simple commandments are not followed!

- That’s what we can call corruption!

- Man’s tradition vs God’s word!

- When Jesus comes back, do you think he will say good job?

 

[bbyrd009]

1) Jesus vs the religious leaders

Mark1: The Sabbath begins and Jesus goes into the synagogue to teach people. They are astounded as they listen to him because his teaching is made with authority, quite different from the scribes.

- Knowledge vs Ignorance!

- Imagine you were there!

- What a privilege!

- What would you have done?

- Listening to a man with an incredible knowledge!

so i guess this might not be received so well, but you might contemplate how ppl in authority actually speak, or at least used to, dunno about now so much, but the point is they usually dont spout unqualified facts, and they even hedge their bets, so to speak, use analogies, talk in parables, etc

 

[bbyrd009]

3) Jesus vs the religious leaders

Mark 2:

- Jesus and his disciples are dining with tax collectors and sinners!

- The scribes and the Pharisees don’t understand!

- Jesus explains that he came for sinners just like a physician must cure those who are ill!

- Knowledge vs Ignorance

- What are religious leaders good for? Nothing? Useless? Predators? Out of reality? They live in their own bubble? Lead people to destruction? Blind?

a decent example of how times change might be our Rockefeller Complex "doctors," who are symptom-treaters ("allopathy") now, and not really interested in curing anyone; although we see that pendulum kinda swinging the other way now i guess

 

[JLG]

36) Looking for Jesus

Mark 3:

- Jesus enters a synagogue and cures a man with a withered hand on the sabbath after asking the Pharisees if it is lawful!

- They are watching him in order to accuse him and they keep silent!

- Jesus is indignant because of their insensibility of their hearts!

- At that the Pharisees go out and immediately begin holding council with the party followers of Herod against him, in order to kill him!

- But Jesus departs for the sea along with his disciples, and a great multitude from Galilee and from Judea followed him!

- Jesus does everything openly in front of the Pharisees and scribes!

- And he wants to help people spiritually and physically!

- By curing people and doing miracles, he shows he come from God!

- But he always teaches!

- And he always shows the religious leaders they are wrong!

- Religious leaders don’t care about the people!

- They only think they are important!

- And Jesus is indignant!

- How will he react when he comes back?

 

[JLG]

a decent example of how times change might be our Rockefeller Complex "doctors," who are symptom-treaters ("allopathy") now, and not really interested in curing anyone; although we see that pendulum kinda swinging the other way now i guess

Yes but it is the whole society which acts that way!

 

[JLG]

so i guess this might not be received so well, but you might contemplate how ppl in authority actually speak, or at least used to, dunno about now so much, but the point is they usually dont spout unqualified facts, and they even hedge their bets, so to speak, use analogies, talk in parables, etc

- Now we get fake news everywhere!

 

[bbyrd009]

Yes but it is the whole society which acts that way!

well…not the whole, surely? always a remnant, what
kingdoms come and go; why pay attention to those dressed in funeral clothes?
Follow the money says i, it will unerringly tell you when.

 

[bbyrd009]

- Now we get fake news everywhere!

ah, well…my guess would be that that is the same eye that is seeing the “whole,” above?
or iow you get to pick the source, eh

News Desk - Graham Hancock Official Website

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grahamhancock.com

there ya go; all real, all the time
or would you prefer news of the world

 

[JLG]

ah, well…my guess would be that that is the same eye that is seeing the “whole,” above?
or iow you get to pick the source, eh

News Desk - Graham Hancock Official Website

Daily alternative news articles at the GrahamHancock News Desk. Featuring science, alternative history, archaeology, Ancient Egypt, paranormal and much more.

grahamhancock.com

there ya go; all real, all the time
or would you prefer news of the world

Ok I will have alook!

 

[JLG]

well…not the whole, surely? always a remnant, what
kingdoms come and go; why pay attention to those dressed in funeral clothes?
Follow the money says i, it will unerringly tell you when.

- Usually the majority!