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Mark Chapter 7: Verses 5-8 (NIV-UK) So the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, ‘Why don’t your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating their food with defiled hands?’ He replied, ‘Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: ‘“These people honour me with…

Late that night, the disciples were in their boat in the middle of the lake, and Jesus was alone on land.He saw that they were in serious trouble, rowing hard and struggling against the wind and waves. About three o’clock in the morning Jesus came toward them, walking on the water. He intended to go…

Mark Chapter 6: Verses 7-8 (NIV-UK) Calling the Twelve to him, he began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over impure spirits.These were his instructions: ‘Take nothing for the journey except a staff – no bread, no bag, no money in your belts. Mark Chapter 6: Verses 12-13 They drove out many…

Mark Chapter 4: Verses 33-34 (NLT) Jesus used many similar stories and illustrations to teach the people as much as they could understand.  In fact, in his public ministry he never taught without using parables; but afterward, when he was alone with his disciples, he explained everything to them. Jesus knew that not everyone needed to…

Mark Chapter 4: Verses 26-29 (NLT)  Jesus also said, “The Kingdom of God is like a farmer who scatters seed on the ground.  Night and day, while he’s asleep or awake, the seed sprouts and grows, but he does not understand how it happens. The earth produces the crops on its own. First a leaf blade pushes through,…

Mark Chapter 2: Verses 23-24 (NLT) One Sabbath day as Jesus was walking through some grainfields, his disciples began breaking off heads of grain to eat.  But the Pharisees said to Jesus, “Look, why are they breaking the law by harvesting grain on the Sabbath?” People must have been watching Jesus and His followers all the…

A man with leprosy came to him and begged him on his knees, ‘If you are willing, you can make me clean.’  Jesus was indignant. He reached out his hand and touched the man. ‘I am willing,’ he said. ‘Be clean!’ The sentence, “Jesus was indignant,” has in the past made me feel a bit uncomfortable. Other translations…

Exodus Chapter 18: Verses 9-12 (NIV-UK) Jethro was delighted to hear about all the good things the Lord had done for Israel in rescuing them from the hand of the Egyptians. He said, ‘Praise be to the Lord, who rescued you from the hand of the Egyptians and of Pharaoh, and who rescued the people from the hand of…

Exodus Chapter 16: Verses 4-5 Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions. On the sixth day they are to prepare what…

Exodus Chapter 13: Verses 19-22 (NIV-UK)  Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the Israelites swear an oath. He had said, ‘God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up with you from this place.’ After leaving Sukkoth they camped at Etham on the…