 Mark 6:45-52
Why did Jesus walk across the wind-blown Sea of Galilee in the middle of the night? Why was Jesus going to just walk right by the disciples struggling to row to the Bethsaida shore? Much about this story is unexpected. This story, more than many others, makes us wonder what Jesus hoped to accomplish by doing something so unexpected. But this is how Mark helps us to see what the disciples in that boat struggled to see: Jesus dramatically claimed his place as God in the flesh.
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 Mark 6:33-44
The story of Jesus feeding 5,000 men from just five loaves of bread and two fish is one of the best known stories from the Gospels. The miraculous power of the Creator was surely on display in Jesus' ability to serve those thousands of people from an amount of food that was really only enough for one or two. He not only fed them, Jesus satisfied their hunger! More importantly, in this lesson, we consider how this miracle story helps us understand the importance of the first feeding story of that day - when Jesus recognized this multitude of "sheep without a shepherd." From that crowd, we learn a crucial lesson about how we, too, should approach the Lord and Savior, Jesus. Mark 6:14-29
People in Jesus' day weren't sure what to think of him. The things he did and said made it pretty clear that he was another prophet sent by God to speak to God's people. But Mark shows us in this story that Jesus is so much more than a prophet. And that gives us hope beyond this world. |
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