Mark - Lesson 4...Continued from page 5

We all experience these types of emotions in our lives.  What are some things you learn about them from the following passages?

Compassion (Psalm 111:4, 145:8; Lamentations 3:22, 23, 32; 1 Peter 3:8):

Anger (Nehemiah 9:17; Psalm 30:5, 37:8; Ephesians 4:26, 27):

Grief (Isaiah 53:4-6; 2 Corinthians 7:9-11; Ephesians 4:30-32):

Scripture Memory:  This week we will be memorizing Mark 3:34, 35.  Review the passage several times throughout the day each day this week, and by the end of the week, you should have it memorized completely.

And He looked around in a circle at those who sat about Him, and said, “Here are My mother and My brothers!  For whoever does the will of God is My brother and My sister and mother.”  Mark 3:34, 35 (nkjv)

DAY TWO:  Multitudes and Mountaintops

Please carefully read Mark 3:7-15 and answer the following questions.

1.  In Mark 3:6, the Pharisees went to take council with the Herodians (a group of Jews who were sympathetic to and supported King Herod’s rule) about how they might destroy (Greek, as one would slaughter an animal) Jesus; ordinarily the Pharisees wanted nothing to do with this false ruler over the Jews, but “common enemies make strange bedfellows.”[v]  Even stranger to believe is that the Pharisees would later have to collaborate with the Sadducees, with whom they were in complete disagreement (see your Introduction about their conflict), for the Sadducees controlled the Sanhedrin (a sort of Jewish Supreme Court), and being collaborators with Rome, they alone would have the power to seek an execution of someone.[vi]