Mark 1

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EXODUS 3:15
YAH.WEH THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS – THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB – HAS SENT ME TO YOU.
THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, AND THIS IS HOW I AM TO BE REMEMBERED IN EVERY GENERATION IN EVERY GENERATION.
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Jesus had siblings :
- Guess what: the Bible is the history of the Israelites!
- Each page tells you that!
- Each story tells you that!
- Each family tells you that!
- The book of Adam's story tells you that!
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Remember:

• Mark was also called John Mark!
• His mother’s house was used as a place for believers to gather and pray!
• He was a companion of Barnabas and Paul during their travels together!
• Paul and Barnabas had a disagreement about Mark!
• They separated, Paul took Silas and barnabas Mark!
• But Mark matured with time!

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Remember:

• If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
• They used to write differently!
• They used to speak differently!
• They used to think differently!
• They used to act differently!

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Remember:
Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.
This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.
Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:

• Point of time (a specific day)
• time period of a whole or half a day:
• • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
  • Sunrise to sunset
  • Sunset to next sunset
• General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
• A year "lived a lot of days"
• Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"

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The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.
Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.
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65) Looking for Jesus
- In Mark 6, Jesus is back in his home territory!
- And people know him as the son of the carpenter, the son of Mary and they know all his siblings!
- So they know him as a normal person!
- Not as someone who has such abilities to teach in the synagogue!
- So they don’t believe in him!
- Anyway, he cures people!
- But it won’t change anything!
- And Jesus is amazed at their lack of faith!
- is it so surprising?
- After all, they are just human beings!
- Once again it shows the necessity to do his best to get accurate knowledge!
- But a lot of effort is required!

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EXODUS 3:15
YAH.WEH THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS – THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB – HAS SENT ME TO YOU.
THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, AND THIS IS HOW I AM TO BE REMEMBERED IN EVERY GENERATION IN EVERY GENERATION.
__________________________________________________________________________
Jesus had siblings :
- Guess what: the Bible is the history of the Israelites!
- Each page tells you that!
- Each story tells you that!
- Each family tells you that!
- The book of Adam's story tells you that!
____________________________________________________________
Remember:

• Mark was also called John Mark!
• His mother’s house was used as a place for believers to gather and pray!
• He was a companion of Barnabas and Paul during their travels together!
• Paul and Barnabas had a disagreement about Mark!
• They separated, Paul took Silas and barnabas Mark!
• But Mark matured with time!

____________________________________________________________
Remember:

• If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
• They used to write differently!
• They used to speak differently!
• They used to think differently!
• They used to act differently!

__________________________________________________________________________
Remember:
Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.
This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.
Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:

• Point of time (a specific day)
• time period of a whole or half a day:
• • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
  • Sunrise to sunset
  • Sunset to next sunset
• General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
• A year "lived a lot of days"
• Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"

__________________________________________________________________________
The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.
Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.
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66) Looking for Jesus
- In Mark 6:7-13, Jesus sends the Twelve two by two!
- And he gives them authority over the unclean spirits!
- They must take nothing with them!
- They stay at the house of those who receive them!
- They must tell people to repent!
- And they cure people!
- Thus he prepares them to be able to keep the preaching work after his death!
- May we follow such an example!

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EXODUS 3:15
YAH.WEH THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS – THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB – HAS SENT ME TO YOU.
THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, AND THIS IS HOW I AM TO BE REMEMBERED IN EVERY GENERATION IN EVERY GENERATION.
__________________________________________________________________________
Jesus had siblings :
- Guess what: the Bible is the history of the Israelites!
- Each page tells you that!
- Each story tells you that!
- Each family tells you that!
- The book of Adam's story tells you that!
____________________________________________________________
Remember:

• Mark was also called John Mark!
• His mother’s house was used as a place for believers to gather and pray!
• He was a companion of Barnabas and Paul during their travels together!
• Paul and Barnabas had a disagreement about Mark!
• They separated, Paul took Silas and barnabas Mark!
• But Mark matured with time!

____________________________________________________________
Remember:

• If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
• They used to write differently!
• They used to speak differently!
• They used to think differently!
• They used to act differently!

__________________________________________________________________________
Remember:
Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.
This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.
Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:

• Point of time (a specific day)
• time period of a whole or half a day:
• • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
  • Sunrise to sunset
  • Sunset to next sunset
• General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
• A year "lived a lot of days"
• Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"

__________________________________________________________________________
The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.
Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.
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67) Looking for Jesus
- In Mark 6:14-16, We are told Jesus is well known for his miracles!
- Even king Herod hears about him!
- Many think he is John the Baptist!

- Others think he is Elijah!
- Or a prophet like in the past!
- Thus the Pharisees have no excuse!
- Because they choose their personal power!
- We must also choose!
- We can’t wait and see!

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• In Luke 19, Jesus tells us an interesting illustration about God’s kingdom!
• An important man must go to a distant land to secure kingly power!
• To his ten slaves he gives money to do business with it till he comes back!
• When he comes back, he wants to know what his slaves have done with their business activity!
• According to what they have done he gives them authority over cities!
• BUT ONE SLAVE HASN’T DONE ANYTHING!
• And he takes what he gave to this slave and gives it to the one who did the best job!
• SO THOSE WHO HAVE MORE WILL BE GIVEN!
• BUT THOSE WHO DON’T HAVE IT WILL BE TAKEN AWAY WHAT THEY HAVE!
• What about you?

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• Maybe you remember that Yah.weh prevented David from building his temple because he was a soldier and he spent a big part of his life making war!
• Jesus clearly said a Christian can’t do that!
• In fact, everything we hear in the first part of the Bible has nothing but nothing to do with what a Christian must or mustn’t do!
• THUS WHEN PEOPLE USE THE FIRST PART OF THE BIBLE TO JUSTIFY ANY PRACTICE IS TOTALLY WRONG AND HAS NOTHING BUT NOTHING TO DO WITH JESUS’ TEACHING!
• I CAN’T EVEN IMAGINE HOW IT IS POSSIBLE TO THINK ABOUT IT!

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EXODUS 3:15
YAH.WEH THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS – THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB – HAS SENT ME TO YOU.
THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, AND THIS IS HOW I AM TO BE REMEMBERED IN EVERY GENERATION IN EVERY GENERATION.
__________________________________________________________________________
Jesus had siblings :
- Guess what: the Bible is the history of the Israelites!
- Each page tells you that!
- Each story tells you that!
- Each family tells you that!
- The book of Adam's story tells you that!
____________________________________________________________
Remember:

• Mark was also called John Mark!
• His mother’s house was used as a place for believers to gather and pray!
• He was a companion of Barnabas and Paul during their travels together!
• Paul and Barnabas had a disagreement about Mark!
• They separated, Paul took Silas and barnabas Mark!
• But Mark matured with time!

____________________________________________________________
Remember:

• If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
• They used to write differently!
• They used to speak differently!
• They used to think differently!
• They used to act differently!

__________________________________________________________________________
Remember:
Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.
This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.
Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:

• Point of time (a specific day)
• time period of a whole or half a day:
• • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
  • Sunrise to sunset
  • Sunset to next sunset
• General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
• A year "lived a lot of days"
• Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"

__________________________________________________________________________
The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.
Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.
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68) Looking for Jesus
- In Mark 6:34, Jesus sees a large crowd!
- And he feels pity for them because they don’t have any shepherds!
- And he teaches them!
- Thus Jesus shows his deep concern for people!
- Thus it gives us a good idea of what he will do with God’s kingdom!

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• Remember Eleazar the priest: HE TOOK A SPEAR AND HE KILLED THE ISRAELITE AND THE MIDIANITE WOMAN WHO WERE COMMITTING IMMORALITY IN FRONT OF ALL THE ISRAELITES WHEN THEY WERE WEEPING!

• WITH ONE ACTION HE STOPPED THE SCOURGE AGAINST

ISRAEL AND YAH.WEH’S ANGER WENT AWAY!

• BUT 24,000 DIED!

- WHAT ABOUT US?

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• Many people think they read the Bible but when you listen to them, it is clear they don’t read it!
• THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO READ THE BIBLE: TO TELL THE PEOPLE ABOUT WHAT YOU READ!
• IT DOESN’T MATTER IF YOU MAKE MISTAKES!
• YOU MUST DO IT AGAIN AND AGAIN, THEN YOU WILL START TO LEARN ABOUT THE BIBLE!

____________________________________________________________

• In Luke 19, Jesus tells us an interesting illustration about God’s kingdom!
• An important man must go to a distant land to secure kingly power!
• To his ten slaves he gives money to do business with it till he comes back!
• When he comes back, he wants to know what his slaves have done with their business activity!
• According to what they have done he gives them authority over cities!
• BUT ONE SLAVE HASN’T DONE ANYTHING!
• And he takes what he gave to this slave and gives it to the one who did the best job!
• SO THOSE WHO HAVE MORE WILL BE GIVEN!
• BUT THOSE WHO DON’T HAVE IT WILL BE TAKEN AWAY WHAT THEY HAVE!
• What about you?

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• Maybe you remember that Yah.weh prevented David from building his temple because he was a soldier and he spent a big part of his life making war!
• Jesus clearly said a Christian can’t do that!
• In fact, everything we hear in the first part of the Bible has nothing but nothing to do with what a Christian must or mustn’t do!
• THUS WHEN PEOPLE USE THE FIRST PART OF THE BIBLE TO JUSTIFY ANY PRACTICE IS TOTALLY WRONG AND HAS NOTHING BUT NOTHING TO DO WITH JESUS’ TEACHING!
• I CAN’T EVEN IMAGINE HOW IT IS POSSIBLE TO THINK ABOUT IT!

__________________________________________________________________________
EXODUS 3:15
YAH.WEH THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS – THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB – HAS SENT ME TO YOU.
THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, AND THIS IS HOW I AM TO BE REMEMBERED IN EVERY GENERATION IN EVERY GENERATION.
__________________________________________________________________________
Jesus had siblings :
- Guess what: the Bible is the history of the Israelites!
- Each page tells you that!
- Each story tells you that!
- Each family tells you that!
- The book of Adam's story tells you that!
____________________________________________________________
Remember:

• Mark was also called John Mark!
• His mother’s house was used as a place for believers to gather and pray!
• He was a companion of Barnabas and Paul during their travels together!
• Paul and Barnabas had a disagreement about Mark!
• They separated, Paul took Silas and barnabas Mark!
• But Mark matured with time!

____________________________________________________________
Remember:

• If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
• They used to write differently!
• They used to speak differently!
• They used to think differently!
• They used to act differently!

__________________________________________________________________________
Remember:
Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.
This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.
Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:

• Point of time (a specific day)
• time period of a whole or half a day:
• • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
  • Sunrise to sunset
  • Sunset to next sunset
• General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
• A year "lived a lot of days"
• Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"

__________________________________________________________________________
The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.
Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.
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69) Looking for Jesus

- In Mark 6:45-52, there is a storm, the disciples are on a boat and Jesus comes to them walking on the sea!
- The disciples think it is an apparition!
- They can’t believe it!
- Then Jesus speaks to them!
- And they are amazed!
- But they shouldn’t!
- After seeing so many miracles from Jesus, they should know that nothing is impossible for Jesus!
- But they are men meaning they are limited!
- What about us?

You do realize the Correct Wording, According To Scriptures Is?:

"John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism
of repentance for the remission of sins." (Mark 1:4)

Thus, Literalism, not symbolism...

Amen.

- I disagree !

- You must demonstrate your repentance by your actions !

- You can say I repent with words but if you don’t demonstrate it by your actions it has no value !

- Do I have to remember you of all the baptism through history which were forced !

- Baptism or death !

- Anyone can get baptized !



What is the meaning of the word literalism?




: adherence to the explicit substance of an idea or expression. biblical literalism. : fidelity to observable fact : realism.




What is the meaning of symbolism?

Symbolism is the idea that things represent other things.

What we mean by that is that we can look at something — let's say, the color red — and conclude that it represents not the color red itself but something beyond it: for example, passion, or love, or devotion. Or maybe the opposite: infidelity.

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- Matthew 3:11



for
εἰς (eis)
Preposition
Strong's 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.

repentance,
μετάνοιαν (metanoian)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3341: From metanoeo; compunction; by implication, reversal (another's) decision).



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Mark 1:4



[a] baptism
βάπτισμα (baptisma)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 908: The rite or ceremony of baptism. From baptizo; baptism.

of repentance
μετανοίας (metanoias)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 3341: From metanoeo; compunction; by implication, reversal (another's) decision).

for
εἰς (eis)
Preposition
Strong's 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.

[the] forgiveness
ἄφεσιν (aphesin)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 859: A sending away, a letting go, a release, pardon, complete forgiveness. From aphiemi; freedom; pardon.

of sins.
ἁμαρτιῶν (hamartiōn)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Plural
Strong's 266: From hamartano; a sin.

- meaning of metanoais :



a transformative change of heart

: a transformative change of heart. especially : a spiritual conversion.



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Luke 3 :3



a baptism
βάπτισμα (baptisma)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 908: The rite or ceremony of baptism. From baptizo; baptism.

of repentance
μετανοίας (metanoias)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 3341: From metanoeo; compunction; by implication, reversal (another's) decision).

for
εἰς (eis)
Preposition
Strong's 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.

[the] forgiveness
ἄφεσιν (aphesin)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 859: A sending away, a letting go, a release, pardon, complete forgiveness. From aphiemi; freedom; pardon.

of sins,
ἁμαρτιῶν (hamartiōn)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Plural
Strong's 266: From hamartano; a sin.

- First I don't teach people!
- I read the Bible and I tell people about what I learn!
- When they ask me questions, I try to answer them!
- When it is possible to have a discussion, we have a discussion!
- If you look at the titles of my threads, I speak about the books of the Bible and especially about the faithful servants of Yah.weh!
- When it is different, it is because many people repeat the same arguments without knowing so I have to show how it works!
- It is necessary to check!
- About John 1:1, it is necessary to check through the Gospel of John about the use of the definite article or not!
- About Jesus' siblings, it is necessary to check the vocabulary used and the context in the different Gospels!
- About the reality of translations, it is necessary to analyze them!
- Before publishing a message, I usually publish the same information connected to the usual mistakes people make!
- Or important facts which must be remembered!

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• Remember Eleazar the priest: HE TOOK A SPEAR AND HE KILLED THE ISRAELITE AND THE MIDIANITE WOMAN WHO WERE COMMITTING IMMORALITY IN FRONT OF ALL THE ISRAELITES WHEN THEY WERE WEEPING!

• WITH ONE ACTION HE STOPPED THE SCOURGE AGAINST

ISRAEL AND YAH.WEH’S ANGER WENT AWAY!

• BUT 24,000 DIED!

- WHAT ABOUT US?

____________________________________________________________

• Many people think they read the Bible but when you listen to them, it is clear they don’t read it!
• THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO READ THE BIBLE: TO TELL THE PEOPLE ABOUT WHAT YOU READ!
• IT DOESN’T MATTER IF YOU MAKE MISTAKES!
• YOU MUST DO IT AGAIN AND AGAIN, THEN YOU WILL START TO LEARN ABOUT THE BIBLE!

____________________________________________________________

• In Luke 19, Jesus tells us an interesting illustration about God’s kingdom!
• An important man must go to a distant land to secure kingly power!
• To his ten slaves he gives money to do business with it till he comes back!
• When he comes back, he wants to know what his slaves have done with their business activity!
• According to what they have done he gives them authority over cities!
• BUT ONE SLAVE HASN’T DONE ANYTHING!
• And he takes what he gave to this slave and gives it to the one who did the best job!
• SO THOSE WHO HAVE MORE WILL BE GIVEN!
• BUT THOSE WHO DON’T HAVE IT WILL BE TAKEN AWAY WHAT THEY HAVE!
• What about you?

_______________________________________________________

• Maybe you remember that Yah.weh prevented David from building his temple because he was a soldier and he spent a big part of his life making war!
• Jesus clearly said a Christian can’t do that!
• In fact, everything we hear in the first part of the Bible has nothing but nothing to do with what a Christian must or mustn’t do!
• THUS WHEN PEOPLE USE THE FIRST PART OF THE BIBLE TO JUSTIFY ANY PRACTICE IS TOTALLY WRONG AND HAS NOTHING BUT NOTHING TO DO WITH JESUS’ TEACHING!
• I CAN’T EVEN IMAGINE HOW IT IS POSSIBLE TO THINK ABOUT IT!

__________________________________________________________________________
EXODUS 3:15
YAH.WEH THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS – THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB – HAS SENT ME TO YOU.
THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, AND THIS IS HOW I AM TO BE REMEMBERED IN EVERY GENERATION IN EVERY GENERATION.
__________________________________________________________________________
Jesus had siblings :
- Guess what: the Bible is the history of the Israelites!
- Each page tells you that!
- Each story tells you that!
- Each family tells you that!
- The book of Adam's story tells you that!
____________________________________________________________
Remember:

• Mark was also called John Mark!
• His mother’s house was used as a place for believers to gather and pray!
• He was a companion of Barnabas and Paul during their travels together!
• Paul and Barnabas had a disagreement about Mark!
• They separated, Paul took Silas and barnabas Mark!
• But Mark matured with time!

____________________________________________________________
Remember:

• If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
• They used to write differently!
• They used to speak differently!
• They used to think differently!
• They used to act differently!

__________________________________________________________________________
Remember:
Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.
This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.
Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:

• Point of time (a specific day)
• time period of a whole or half a day:
• • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
  • Sunrise to sunset
  • Sunset to next sunset
• General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
• A year "lived a lot of days"
• Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"

__________________________________________________________________________
The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.
Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.
__________________________________________________________________________

70) Looking for Jesus

- In Mark 6:53-56, when Jesus arrives at Gennesaret, it spreads like a fire and everyone arrives where Jesus is!
- And they bring people to be cured!
- And they just need to touch him to be cured!
- It must have been completely crazy!
- And Jesus keeps on curing people!

- Again and again!
- Jesus never complains!

71) Looking for Jesus

• Pharisees and scribes argue with Jesus!
• They say Jesus’ disciples don’t respect man’s traditions!
• Jesus answers them calling them hypocrites saying that Isaiah prophesied about them saying:
• Mark 7:6: These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me!
• Mark 7:7: They worship me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men!
• Mark 7:8: You have disregarded the commandment of God to keep the tradition of men!

72) Looking for Jesus

Mark 7:13

[Thus] you nullify
ἀκυροῦντες (akyrountes)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 208: To annul, make of no effect, cancel. To invalidate.

the
τὸν (ton)
Article - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

word
λόγον (logon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3056: From lego; something said; by implication, a topic, also reasoning or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, the Divine Expression.

of God
Θεοῦ (Theou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.

by
τῇ (tē)
Article - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

[the]
ὑμῶν (hymōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

tradition
παραδόσει (paradosei)
Noun - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3862: An instruction, tradition. From paradidomi; transmission, i.e. a precept; specially, the Jewish traditionary law.

you have handed down.

• Religious leaders oppose Yah.weh’s commandment and word because of man’s tradition they keep transmitting through CORRUPTION!
• We must make a choice!
• Do we want to follow Yah.weh’s commandment and word?
• Or do we want to follow man’s tradition!
• Man’s tradition is a dead end!

73) Looking for Jesus

Mark 7

• Man’s tradition vs Yah.weh’s word!
• Hypocrisy vs faithfulness!
• Rejecting yah.weh’s commandment!
• They make Yah.weh’s word invalid!
• Sexual immorality!
• Theft!
• Murder!
• Adultery!
• Greed!
• Wickedness!
• Deceit!
• Debauchery!
• Envy!
• Slander!
• Arrogance!
• Foolishness!

74) Looking for Jesus

Mark 8

• Pity for the crowd!
• Jesus feeds them!
• The number doesn’t matter!
• Jesus cures A blind man!
• He must do it twice!
• PRECISION!
• FOLLOWING JESUS MEANS BEING READY FOR ANYTHING!
• THIS IS THE PRICE FOR ETERNAL LIFE!
• EVERYTHING HAS A COST!

75) Looking for Jesus


Mark 9

• Jesus must cure a boy who is possessed because his disciples can’t do it!
• He tells his disciples that he must die and be resurrected!
• But they don’t understand him!
• Later his disciples argue about who is the greater among them!
• So Jesus must explain to them again it can’t be so!
• Hard work for Jesus indeed!
• But he knew he would have a lot to do with them!

76) Looking for Jesus


Mark 10

• Pharisees always try to test Jesus!
• This time it is about divorcing his wife!
• Jesus explains to them that Moses gave the possibility to divorce their wives because of their hardheartedness!
• But then he reminds them how it was from the beginning of creation according to Yah.weh!
• So he tells them that divorcing his wife is a sin!
• It is not possible to be clearer!
• When someone calls him a good teacher, he answers by saying only God is good!
• Once again, it is not possible to be clearer!
• And he tells the man to sell everything and follow him and participate in his activity!
• Once again, it is not possible to be clearer!
• Then James and John want Jesus to grant them to sit at his right and at hit in his kingdom!
• But Jesus tells them it doesn't belong to him to give such a privilege!
• Once again, it is not possible to be clearer!