Mark-Lesson 13...Continued from page 2

DAY THREE: Restoration and Redirection

Please carefully read Mark 9:25-32 and answer the following questions.

1.  A bigger crowd was gathering and this was becoming a big scene, so Jesus took action.  What did Jesus do, and what happened (v. 25, 26)?

2.  Was this boy really dead?  We aren’t told for sure, but the Greek word for dead occurs 132 times in the kjv and all 132 times it is translated “dead.”[ix] Mark’s description suggests the idea of resurrection. The second and third verbs in v. 27 are often used in connection with resurrection. The account has much in common with the raising of Jairus’ daughter (Mark 5:41–42). This exorcism is also a preview of Jesus’ own death and resurrection as well as the resurrection of believers.[x]

Jesus and the disciples left pretty quickly after this.  What did Jesus tell the disciples about why they had failed to cast the demon out of this young man (v. 28, 29)?

3.  What did they do from there, and why did Jesus not want to linger in Galilee (v. 30)?  What did He clearly tell His disciples at this time, but what was their amazing reaction to this (v. 31, 32)?

4.  We look at these disciples and wonder why they didn’t get these things.  Jesus had to repeatedly teach them the same lessons over and over; He gave them the same repeated guidance and forewarning about His coming death, yet it was a shock to them.  Tomorrow’s study leads us to an even more amazing display of their hard-headedness.  But this also sounds a bit familiar to those of us who needed the same help of Jesus to overcome our doubts and confusion.  What would Peter, who seemed most frequently to need such redirection, later say about why we need this repetition in our spiritual life and learning (2 Peter 1:12-15; 3:1, 2)?

Scripture Memory:  Try to fill in the missing words in the blanks below, by memory if at all possible, and then review the passage several times today.

Salt is ____________, but if the salt loses its _____________________, how will you season it? Have ________________ in yourselves, and have _____________________ with _____________ another. Mark 9:50 (nkjv)