Mark 3: 20-30….Do NOT Say That!

Then he went home, and the crowd gathered again, so that they could not even eat. And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, “He is out of his mind.” Comment: How ‘extensive’ is a family? Did it include uncles and aunts, siblings, Jesus’ mother, nephews andContinue reading “Mark 3: 20-30….Do NOT Say That!”

Mark 3 7-19….The Apostles Called!

Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem and Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him. And he told his disciples to have a boatContinue reading “Mark 3 7-19….The Apostles Called!”

Mark chs 1 and 2….Is Mark proving Jesus to be the ‘Son of God’?

Obviously Mark has another 14 chapters to finish his argument that Jesus is the Son of God but what has he sought to do so far? 1. He has offered that John the Baptist fulfilled prophecy and pointed to Jesus. As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Behold, I send my messenger before yourContinue reading “Mark chs 1 and 2….Is Mark proving Jesus to be the ‘Son of God’?”

Exodus 34: 25-35….Miracles on the mountain?

“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover remain until the morning. The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’sContinue reading “Exodus 34: 25-35….Miracles on the mountain?”

Exodus 34: 18-24….More details of the Mosaic Covenant.

“You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib, for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt. All that open the womb are mine, all your male livestock, the firstborn of cow and sheep. TheContinue reading “Exodus 34: 18-24….More details of the Mosaic Covenant.”

Exodus 34:10-17….God’s answer to Moses’ Request.

And he (God) said, “Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD, for it is an awesome thing that IContinue reading “Exodus 34:10-17….God’s answer to Moses’ Request.”

Exodus 34: 1-9….Moses – the stonemason!

The LORD said to Moses, “Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on theContinue reading “Exodus 34: 1-9….Moses – the stonemason!”

Exodus 33: 12-23….God and Moses have a Deep and Meaningful Conversation!

Comment: I have dared to add to the scripture, but not in blacker type. Some things I have drawn attention to by underlining. I think that the passage is pretty self explanatory. Obviously it would be nice for those with very tidy minds if Moses, whom I assume is the source of this material evenContinue reading “Exodus 33: 12-23….God and Moses have a Deep and Meaningful Conversation!”

Exodus 33: 7-11….God is still in the Driver’s Seat!

Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far off from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. And everyone who sought the LORD would go out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp. Whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the peopleContinue reading “Exodus 33: 7-11….God is still in the Driver’s Seat!”

Exodus 33: 1-6….Following a rebellious Act

The LORD said to Moses, “Depart; go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give it.’ I will send an angel before you, and I willContinue reading “Exodus 33: 1-6….Following a rebellious Act”