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00:14 >>Eric Flickinger: Welcome to "Sabbath School,"
00:15 brought to you by It Is Written.
00:17 We're glad that you could join us again.
00:19 We're continuing our journey through the book of Mark,
00:21 and today we're looking at lesson number five,
00:24 and that is "Miracles Around the Lake,"
00:26 looking at some of Jesus' miracles
00:28 and the impact that they had on not just the people
00:30 who the miracles were performed for or on
00:33 but also many people since that time.
00:35 We're glad that you could join us.
00:36 Let's begin with prayer.
00:38 Father, we thank You for bringing us together
00:40 as we continue our study of the book of Mark.
00:43 Help us to understand more about Christ,
00:46 more about the plan of salvation,
00:48 and more about how we fit
00:49 into that grand scheme of things.
00:51 And we thank You in Jesus' name, amen.
00:55 We're also glad to have with us
00:56 once again this week Tom Shepherd.
00:58 He is the senior research professor of New Testament
01:01 at the theological seminary, Andrews University.
01:04 Tom, we're grateful to have you back again.
01:07 >>Thomas Shepherd: It's good to be with you.
01:08 >>Eric: So this week we're looking
01:09 at "Miracles Around the Lake."
01:11 We talk about the Sea of Galilee in Mark, chapter 4.
01:15 What were some of the experiences
01:16 that Jesus and His disciples had there
01:20 around that sea, around that lake?
01:22 >>Tom: Okay, so the title of the lesson,
01:24 the "Miracles Around the Lake,"
01:26 is related to where the miracles happen
01:29 that are described in these-- this end of chapter 4,
01:33 beginning and all through chapter 5.
01:35 It all surrounds the Sea of Galilee.
01:38 Now, we call it the Sea of Galilee,
01:40 but that's a little bit of a grandiose name
01:44 for a lake that's like-- it's like 8 miles across,
01:46 maybe 13 miles long, it's not real big,
01:49 but it's the largest freshwater lake in Palestine,
01:52 so--even to this day.
01:54 So, the events beginning and at the end of chapter 4
01:59 are all linked up with that lake.
02:01 Of course, He's been in Capernaum.
02:02 Capernaum's right on the northern edge of the lake,
02:05 so we've really been in that area.
02:07 And most of Jesus' ministry in--most of His ministry
02:11 was actually spent up in Galilee,
02:13 not down in Judea or Jerusalem.
02:16 So, we were just studying in chapter 4
02:19 about the parables that Jesus taught.
02:23 And at the end of that day-- again, we have this whole,
02:27 you know, one-day kind of experience,
02:30 so, we have--it's like the parables are told in one day,
02:33 and then that evening He goes across the lake,
02:36 and the next day He's in the Gadarenes,
02:38 and then He goes back again across the lake.
02:40 So, you're only in, like, a 24-, 48-hour period covering,
02:44 like, two chapters of this book.
02:47 So, again, it's kind of these vignettes of Jesus' ministry.
02:51 You get a picture and a close-up
02:53 of some kind of scene that goes on.
02:56 So, the first experience starts in chapter 4, verse 35,
03:01 and maybe we should read verses 35 to 41.
03:04 >>Eric: "On the same day, when evening had come,
03:06 "He said to them, 'Let us cross over to the other side.'
03:09 "Now when they had left the multitude,
03:11 "they took Him along in the boat as He was.
03:13 "And other little boats were also with Him.
03:16 "And a great windstorm arose,
03:17 "and the waves beat into the boat,
03:19 "so that it was already filling.
03:21 "But He was in the stern, asleep on a pillow.
03:23 "And they awoke Him and said to Him,
03:25 "'Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?'
03:28 "Then He arose and rebuked the wind,
03:30 "and said to the sea, 'Peace, be still!'
03:33 "And the wind ceased and there was a great calm.
03:36 "But He said to them, 'Why are you so fearful?
03:38 "How is it that you have no faith?'
03:41 "And they feared exceedingly, and said to one another,
03:43 "'Who can this be,
03:45 "that even the wind and the sea obey him!'"
03:47 >>Tom: Yeah, well, it was a pretty scary experience
03:49 on the lake.
03:51 It says that they take Him just as He was.
03:55 Earlier, He may have been sitting in the boat
03:58 and teaching the people from the boat,
04:01 but He was probably tired, [chuckles]
04:04 and, obviously, He could sleep through a storm
04:07 and a storm that was filling the boat and, you know,
04:11 tossing it back and forth, so He had to be pretty tired.
04:15 We have this experience showing us that Jesus was human.
04:20 He was the Son of God, but He was also human
04:22 and needed sleep just like we do. They wake Him up,
04:25 and there's an interesting question that they say to Him:
04:28 "Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?"
04:32 I wonder how many people have asked God that
04:35 or said that in prayer:
04:36 "Lord, don't You care that we're perishing,
04:38 that we're going through trouble?"
04:40 Trouble is not an expression that God has left us.
04:45 Trouble comes to us at different times in our life,
04:48 and it's not a demonstration that God has left us.
04:52 Jesus was with them. He was right there in the boat.
04:55 And they woke Him up, He stands up,
04:58 which you don't usually do in a boat,
05:01 but He stands up, and He tells
05:03 the wind and the sea to be quiet:
05:09 "Peace, be still."
05:11 The wind ceases, and there's a great calm.
05:15 Now, I've never experienced something like that,
05:18 but these men are completely shocked by what has happened.
05:24 They're gonna say, "Who then is this,
05:25 that even the wind and the sea obey Him?"
05:27 This is really reminiscent of some descriptions
05:30 of God in the Old Testament. God walks in the storm,
05:34 the clouds and the thunder and lightning
05:36 are His tools and everything.
05:38 He brings the rain.
05:39 There's pictures of Him in some psalms
05:40 that are like a storm cloud,
05:42 God marching in the storm clouds.
05:43 So, this is what we call a theophany,
05:47 the appearance of God, where He shows up,
05:50 and typically, when God shows up, there's human fear,
05:53 and that's exactly what they say.
05:55 Great fear, you know, falls on them.
05:58 And typically, a theophany is a--focused on some message,
06:06 some revelation that God is--wants to bring you.
06:09 You remember the story of Jesus and the--His birth,
06:15 and the angels appear, the shepherds are afraid,
06:18 the angel says, "Don't be afraid,"
06:20 and then the angel tells them about the birth of Jesus.
06:22 So here, the revelation is kind of tied up in what Jesus does.
06:28 That's the theophany, you know, He calms the storm.
06:31 But the revelation is, really,
06:33 implied in the question that they ask.
06:36 "Who is--who then is this,
06:38 that even the wind and the sea obey Him?"
06:39 Well, obviously, He's the Son of God,
06:42 who can calm the storm.
06:44 So it is an unforgettable kind of an experience
06:48 of this theophany on the storm.
06:54 >>Eric: So they have this experience,
06:57 but then the boat gets to the other side,
07:01 and they get over to the Gadarenes,
07:04 and if they hadn't had an exciting enough experience,
07:08 everything gets ratcheted up several notches
07:11 when you get over to the Gadarenes. What happens there?
07:13 >>Tom: Yeah, so they arrive on the shore,
07:15 and you can imagine the disciples like,
07:16 "Oh, back on terra firma again," you know,
07:19 they're feeling a little more safe,
07:21 but then a man runs out of the tombs
07:25 and he has an unclean spirit.
07:27 Now, the description of this man is very, is very sad.
07:33 It describes him in very vivid terms.
07:38 "He [lives] among the tombs....
07:41 "No one could bind him,... not even with a chain,...
07:45 "[he'd] often been bound with shackles...
07:47 he wrenched the chains apart,... broke the shackles in pieces."
07:51 Verse 4: "No one had the strength to subdue him."
07:55 It's just a tragic, you know, picture
07:58 that, sadly, is repeated even today.
08:02 There are people that are in chains with demonic forces,
08:08 people who are in chains
08:10 with the addictions that have overcome them,
08:15 drug addictions, pornography, abuse.
08:19 No one had the strength to subdue them.
08:22 And then this man met Jesus.
08:24 Yeah, that's really the change in his life.
08:27 Now, this whole area is--it just reeks
08:34 of the biblical concept of uncleanness.
08:39 Now, here in the United States, when we think of unclean,
08:45 we think that if you drop food on the floor,
08:47 the floor is dirty, so you shouldn't eat it,
08:50 unless you believe in the five-second rule
08:52 or something like that.
08:55 Then people would throw that away.
08:57 In this setting, it's not hygiene
09:01 that they're talking about. It's ritual uncleanness.
09:05 Throughout Palestine, ruins have been found
09:08 of what they call "mikveh," which were ritual baths,
09:13 where people would walk down one side
09:14 and then walk back up the other side,
09:16 and they would ritually cleanse themselves.
09:18 And so, it was really important to people in Jesus' day.
09:22 But there were certain things
09:23 that were unclean, ritually unclean.
09:28 So one of them was tombs, the dead.
09:31 If you touched a dead person, that was--
09:33 that dead person was unclean. So, tombs would be unclean.
09:37 Also, the man is cutting himself, so he's bleeding.
09:40 Blood would be ritually unclean.
09:44 He lives in a--he's of course, he's possessed
09:49 by unclean spirits,
09:51 and wherever these evil spirits are referred to
09:54 in the book of Mark, they're referred to as unclean.
09:58 And then, the land is a Gentile land,
10:02 which is considered unclean because of idolatry,
10:05 and idolatry is unclean.
10:07 And then, there's a herd of 2,000 pigs to top it off,
10:10 and the pigs are unclean.
10:11 So it's unclean, unclean, unclean! Everything is unclean.
10:15 So you'd think anybody, any good Jew
10:17 stepping in there would be, you know, become unclean.
10:20 Well, as we've seen before, not Jesus, you know, not Jesus.
10:24 So, the man runs up to Him
10:27 and, like the demon we saw in chapter 1,
10:30 he says in verse 7--well, why don't you read verse 7?
10:33 >>Eric: "And he cried out with a loud voice and said,
10:35 "'What have I to do with You, Jesus,
10:37 "'Son of the Most High God?
10:39 I implore You by God that You do not torment me.'"
10:42 >>Tom: Yeah, so Jesus had said,
10:45 "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit."
10:48 And then Jesus says in verse 9, "Jesus asked him,
10:51 'What is your name?'"
10:53 And the man says, "My name is Legion,
10:56 for we are many."
10:57 So he's filled with many unclean spirits.
11:00 So not just one, it's numerous unclean spirits
11:03 that have filled this guy, and he's just in great trouble.
11:07 Now, it's really interesting.
11:09 He comes, up and he kneels down before Jesus.
11:13 He fell down; verse 6, it says, "He fell down before Him."
11:16 It's the word for "worship."
11:18 So here's a guy with mixed messages.
11:21 He wants help from Jesus, but when he opens his mouth,
11:25 the demons speak and they say, "What have You to do with us?
11:29 What do You do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God?"
11:32 And then, almost comically,
11:35 "I adjure You by the living God, do not torment me."
11:39 Now, this seems like very religious demons
11:41 that they're--"Swear to God that You won't torment me."
11:45 Well, you know, are you really gonna ask God
11:48 to keep Jesus from throwing out unclean spirits?
11:51 It's almost comic, you know, the way this is described.
11:56 So the demons beg Him--
12:01 and this is one of several people who are begging Him--
12:04 the demons beg Him to not send them out of the country.
12:08 And there's all these pigs, and they say,
12:10 "Send us into the pigs, send us into the pigs."
12:13 So He gives them permission, and they go in the pigs.
12:15 And the pigs, 2,000 pigs, go crazy.
12:19 They rush down the steep bank,
12:21 and they're all drowned in the sea,
12:24 and the pig herders run away
12:27 and tell everybody in the town what's taken place.
12:31 So, it's really an amazing picture of what's,
12:36 you know, what goes on at this point.
12:38 We're not quite done with this story,
12:40 but I think we're gonna probably have to continue
12:42 into the second half of our time.
12:44 >>Eric: That's right, and we're gonna continue
12:46 picking this apart, and there's a lot of good stuff here.
12:48 Thomas, somebody wants to get more out of this.
12:52 There's a companion book.
12:53 Share with us a little bit more about that companion book.
12:55 >>Tom: This is the companion book right here.
12:57 It's called "The Book of Mark,"
12:58 just like the "Sabbath School" quarterly.
13:01 There are 13 chapters, just like there are 13 lessons.
13:04 Every chapter has the same name as the lesson,
13:06 so it's not hard to find, and you get extra details.
13:09 So, this one, we've been talking about the man and his situation,
13:14 and some of the things I just shared now
13:16 are found in here. You know, it goes beyond the lesson,
13:20 and we also have more information
13:22 about the rest of the chapter, of chapter 5.
13:25 >>Eric: So if you want to pick that one up,
13:26 you can do it very easily by going to itiswritten.shop.
13:29 Again, itiswritten.shop, and you'll find
13:32 the companion book to our quarter's study
13:35 on the book of Mark.
13:36 We're gonna come back in just a moment and continue looking
13:38 at Jesus' ministry around the sea.
13:41 We'll be back in just a moment.
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15:22 >>Eric: Welcome back to "Sabbath School,"
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15:25 We're looking at some of the miracles
15:26 around the sea-- or around the lake
15:29 that Jesus performed, and we're talking
15:31 about this casting of the, of legion of demons
15:34 out of the man and into the pigs.
15:38 You'd think that that would be a positive thing,
15:42 but the people of that region
15:43 were not thrilled with what happened.
15:47 Why not?
15:49 >>Tom: Well, of course, 2,000 pigs--
15:51 let's say each pig, you know, was worth $100.
15:54 Now, that's a low estimate, possibly.
15:57 You know, today, of course, pigs are bigger, and, you know,
16:00 they'd be worth a lot more than that.
16:01 But let's just go a low.
16:03 Even at $100, 2,000 pigs is $200,000.
16:08 This was a financial disaster for the people of that area.
16:13 And I've asked how much is a man worth.
16:16 Is a man worth 2,000 pigs?
16:18 And we would say yes,
16:20 but evidently the people didn't think so.
16:22 And they come and they beg Jesus to leave.
16:26 They come out, they're amazed,
16:29 they find the man is "clothed and in his right mind,"
16:32 he had been naked, and the disciples
16:35 probably had some Dorcas clothes with them
16:37 or something or other. "Here's a little something," or something.
16:40 And the man's in his right mind
16:42 and is sitting at the feet of Jesus,
16:43 and they're just-- they're shocked.
16:46 This is, again, another theophany
16:47 where God has appeared in this healing of this man,
16:53 sending out the demons.
16:55 And so, they beg Him to leave.
16:59 Now, the demons had begged Jesus
17:02 not to send them out of the country.
17:05 The man--now, the people of the country now beg Jesus
17:09 to leave their country. So, they're kind of
17:12 paralleling the demons, you know.
17:15 And as Jesus gets into the boat, he says--
17:20 he comes and begs Jesus.
17:22 So, this is three times that somebody has begged Jesus.
17:26 And they beg--he begs Jesus to be able to go with Him.
17:31 Now, when the pig, when--I'm sorry,
17:34 when the demons asked, begged Jesus
17:36 not to send them out of the country,
17:37 He said, "Okay, go to the pigs, sure."
17:40 When the people beg Jesus to leave,
17:44 He gets into the boat.
17:45 Jesus doesn't stay where He's not wanted.
17:49 But when the man says, "Please let me go with You,"
17:52 he begs Jesus, Jesus says no.
17:55 Instead--read verse 19.
17:58 >>Eric: "However, Jesus did not permit him,
18:00 "but said to him, 'Go home to your friends,
18:02 "'and tell them what great things
18:04 "'the Lord has done for you,
18:06 and how He has had compassion on you.'"
18:09 >>Tom: Yeah, so I sometimes describe this story as a--
18:14 like a basketball game, where there's two points
18:19 for different sides as they make a basket.
18:22 So, the first time is, Jesus, of course,
18:24 comes into, you might say, Satan's territory.
18:27 It's the unclean land, the unclean man,
18:30 the unclean pigs, you know, the idolatry--everything's unclean.
18:34 He's gone into Satan's territory,
18:37 and He cast out the demons.
18:40 All right, two points for Jesus.
18:43 But the demons request that they go into the pigs,
18:46 and He says, "Okay."
18:48 They go into the pigs, and all the pigs drown,
18:50 which is a financial disaster.
18:51 Two points for Satan, all right.
18:53 Then the people come and they beg Jesus,
18:56 say, you know, "Please leave the land." He complies.
18:59 It seems like Satan is winning this basketball game.
19:02 But then Jesus makes a three-pointer
19:06 when He says to this man, "Go home to your friends,...
19:09 "tell them how much the Lord has done for you,
19:11 and how He has had mercy on you."
19:14 >>Eric: So that's pretty powerful.
19:15 Now, Jesus healed this man.
19:20 What made this healed man such a good missionary?
19:23 >>Tom: You would think that this is not the guy
19:26 you would choose to be a missionary.
19:28 Really, the disciples probably didn't see anything
19:33 in this territory that would be profitable
19:37 for the gospel mission, but Jesus did.
19:40 This man knelt down and screamed at Jesus,
19:45 but Jesus could hear the whisper of his heart
19:48 above the scream of the demons.
19:50 And I have experienced that God
19:53 still listens to the whispers of His people,
19:56 and sometimes we don't know what to say,
20:01 but we cry out to God-- I've done that before--
20:03 cry out to God and say, "Lord, please do something,"
20:06 and He responds.
20:08 And so, this guy
20:11 you would think would be the most unlikely missionary,
20:14 but Jesus saw that that wasn't the case.
20:18 This guy had been, like, totally possessed by Satan,
20:22 and now he was set free.
20:25 I mean, he had an amazing story to tell.
20:28 And it says here at the end, "He went away
20:31 "and began to proclaim in the Decapolis
20:33 "how much Jesus had done for him;
20:35 and everyone marveled."
20:37 I mean, the guy was the person that everybody was afraid of.
20:41 He was the people that they said,
20:43 "Stay away from where he is
20:44 because he'll tear you to pieces,"
20:46 and now he's completely changed. "What happened to you?"
20:50 He had a story to tell, see?
20:52 So, each of us, each of us, my friends,
20:56 has a story to tell.
20:57 We have some kind of experience that we've gone through.
21:00 All of our stories, all of our experience is unique to us.
21:04 I have my story, you have your story,
21:06 tell it, tell it. It's what the world needs to hear.
21:10 >>Eric: And that story made a huge difference
21:12 in the lives of the people
21:13 who lived in and around Decapolis--
21:15 >>Tom: Yeah, yep. >>Eric: ...a huge difference.
21:17 Now, chapter 5 doesn't end there.
21:18 We will read the story of Jairus,
21:21 the woman with--and the woman with the hemorrhage.
21:23 Bring us through these stories.
21:25 >>Tom: Yeah, this is one of my favorite stories, really.
21:28 It's the second of the sandwich stories that appear in Mark.
21:32 Remember, this is where one story begins
21:33 and then it's interrupted by another story,
21:36 and then the first story is concluded.
21:38 So, Jairus' story, the story of his daughter,
21:42 is the outside story,
21:43 and the woman with the hemorrhage,
21:45 her story is the inside story.
21:47 So we start with Jairus' story. He was a synagogue ruler,
21:50 not usually the friends of Jesus,
21:52 and he comes up, and he falls at Jesus' feet,
21:58 "He [implores] Him...saying,
22:01 "'My little daughter is at the point of death.
22:04 "'Come...lay Your hands on her
22:06 so that she may be made well and live.'"
22:08 Every parent can relate to this.
22:12 When your child is dying, your place is where they are.
22:17 The only reason you would have for leaving was if that
22:20 you had some hope that someone could help them.
22:24 And that's what Jairus does. So he implores Jesus.
22:27 I wouldn't be surprised if His disciples
22:28 were kind of watching to see
22:30 if Jesus would go with one of His enemies.
22:33 Without a word He goes.
22:35 And so, even that silent movement with Jairus
22:38 is a lesson book that you should pray for your enemies;
22:43 you should help your enemies.
22:44 If they're thirsty, give them a drink.
22:45 If they're hungry, give them a meal.
22:47 And guess what? They'll stop being your enemies.
22:50 So, that's where the story breaks away
22:52 to the story of this woman,
22:54 and it's a tragic story, you know.
22:58 In Greek, it's a little more, a little more powerful
23:01 than it is in English because it's one long sentence,
23:05 and it starts in verse 25:
23:08 "There was a woman who had had a discharge of blood
23:11 for twelve years," you know,
23:12 "...had suffered much under many physicians,
23:14 "and had spent all that she had,
23:16 "and was no better but rather grew worse.
23:18 "She had heard the reports about Jesus
23:21 "and came up behind Him in the crowd
23:23 and touched His garment."
23:26 Now, in Greek we have-- all of those words
23:28 are what we call participles.
23:30 After this and after this and after this,
23:32 you have da-da-da-da.
23:34 The one indicative verb is "she touched His garment."
23:38 It's just a small act, you know,
23:41 and yet it's like all of her hope--
23:45 she had been so disappointed so long, 12 years.
23:49 All of her hope goes into one touch.
23:53 And, actually, her story now, after that,
23:56 all revolves around this touch, what she did,
23:59 'cause immediately she's made well.
24:01 She says, "If I [just] touch...His [garment],
24:04 I will be made well."
24:06 And then, of course, the flow of blood dries up,
24:09 she feels in her body
24:11 that she's well from her problem, right?
24:14 What happens then is that Jesus turns around
24:17 and says, "Who touched my [clothes?]"
24:19 Now, in a crowd it's the--
24:23 I can imagine the disciples saying,
24:24 "Uh, Master, that's the wrong question to ask.
24:27 Everybody's touching Your clothes."
24:29 But He keeps looking, and, you know,
24:31 she's discovered, and she comes and tells the whole story.
24:37 It says in verse 33, "And told Him the whole truth."
24:41 Well, it's been 12 years, so--I don't know
24:42 if you ever met a person like this.
24:43 You say, "How are you?" And they say,
24:45 "I'm glad you asked. It started 20 years ago."
24:48 And you're like, "No, that's not what--" [laughs]
24:53 So, He wants to tell her,
24:54 "Daughter, your faith has made you well.
24:56 Go in peace and be healed of your disease."
24:58 But right then we come back into Jairus' story,
25:00 and somebody comes to him and says, "Your daughter"--
25:03 it's the same word, "your daughter"--
25:04 "Your daughter has died.
25:06 Why trouble the Master anymore?"
25:08 Boy! Jesus overhears it,
25:10 He says, "Don't be afraid, only believe."
25:12 He rushes to the house.
25:14 Oh my goodness, I can tell you this story is so striking.
25:19 When we were missionaries in Malawi,
25:21 I had an experience like this
25:22 of taking a dead child to their home
25:25 and the wailing that went on, just tragic.
25:29 But Jesus throws everybody out,
25:31 He takes the little girl's hand and says,
25:33 "Talitha cumi,"
25:34 which Mark translates as, "Little girl.
25:36 I said to you, arise."
25:38 But actually, "talitha" is a word for a lamb,
25:43 like a little sheep, a lamb.
25:46 So, it's like, "Little lamb, wake up."
25:48 It's like, you know, a term of endearment.
25:50 So, it's really beautiful.
25:51 Again, the secrecy thing comes up.
25:52 He says, "Don't tell anybody."
25:54 You can imagine Jairus saying,
25:56 "Okay, we'll try our best." [laughs]
25:59 It's a great story. I love it.
26:00 >>Eric: It's tough to keep that sort of thing secret.
26:03 With these incredible things happening,
26:05 these incredible miracles, you'd think that everybody
26:07 would accept Jesus and just go right with Him,
26:09 but His people in His hometown, not so much.
26:14 What did they lack?
26:15 >>Tom: That chapter 6, beginning of chapter 6,
26:18 tells us the story of His hometown.
26:21 "A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown
26:24 and among his relatives and in his own household."
26:27 We've already seen that in chapter 3.
26:29 Storm clouds are gathering,
26:31 but we see it here at home where He grew up with them.
26:36 And so there's--familiarity breeds contempt.
26:39 They thought, "Where did He get all this stuff?
26:42 "We know this guy. This is Jesus.
26:45 "This is just the carpenter's son.
26:46 "This is, you know, Mary's son, our--His brothers are all here.
26:50 What's so special about Him?"
26:52 So, they took offense at Him,
26:53 and He couldn't help very many people there
26:55 because they didn't believe--tragic.
26:58 >>Eric: We don't have much time left,
27:00 but I do want to touch on this.
27:01 There's another sandwich story here. Tell us about that.
27:04 >>Tom: Yeah, it's chapter 6; it's the mission of the 12
27:07 and the beheading of John.
27:08 It's an amazing story, and it's very dramatically told,
27:12 but basically what this story does,
27:14 it parallels the mission of the 12 where they go out
27:20 and share the gospel and heal peoples of diseases
27:22 with the silencing of John the Baptist by Herod.
27:25 John had rebuked Herod for marrying his brother's wife,
27:29 rightly so, but his brother's wife, Herodias,
27:34 really hated him, and she contrives a way--
27:38 because Herod is wishy-washy--
27:40 she contrives a way to get him beheaded.
27:42 So he dies and is actually reported
27:45 as risen from the dead to Herod when he hears about Jesus.
27:49 So, John foretells what's gonna happen to Jesus,
27:52 and we're gonna see more of that as we go on.
27:54 >>Eric: Fantastic, well, we've still got
27:56 a bit of the journey to tell. >>Tom: Oh yes.
27:57 >>Eric: It's an exciting journey,
27:59 and we invite you to join us.
28:01 We're going to continue our study of the book of Mark
28:03 here on "Sabbath School," brought to you by It Is Written.
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