Mark 6
6
Rejection at Nazareth
1He # 6:1–6 Mt 13:53–58 left there and came to his hometown, # 6:1 Mk 1:9 and his disciples # 6:1 Mt 9:10; Mk 10:10; Lk 6:1; Jn 6:3; Ac 6:1 followed him. 2When the Sabbath # 6:2 Mk 2:23; Lk 13:10 came, he began to teach # 6:2 Mt 28:20; Ac 4:2; 2Tm 4:11 in the synagogue, # 6:2 Jms 2:2 and many who heard him were astonished. “Where did this man get these things? ” they said. “What is this wisdom # 6:2 Pr 3:19; Ac 7:22; 1Co 1:21 that has been given to him, and how are these miracles # 6:2 Ac 19:11 performed by his hands? 3Isn’t this the carpenter, # 6:3 Mt 13:55 the son of Mary, # 6:3 Mt 1:16 and the brother of James, # 6:3 Jms 1:1; Jd 1 Joses, Judas, # 6:3 Mt 13:55; Jd 1 and Simon? And aren’t his sisters here with us? ” So they were offended # 6:3 Jn 16:1 by him.
4Jesus said to them, “A prophet # 6:4 Mt 2:23 is not without honor # 6:4 Mt 13:57; 1Co 4:10; 12:23 except in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his household.” 5He was not able to do a miracle # 6:5 Ac 19:11 there, except that he laid his hands on # 6:5 1Tm 5:22 a few sick # 6:5 1Co 11:30 people and healed # 6:5 Ac 8:7 them. 6And he was amazed # 6:6 Rv 17:6 at their unbelief. # 6:6 Heb 3:12,19 He was going around the villages teaching. # 6:6 Mt 28:20; Ac 4:2; 2Tm 4:11
Commissioning the Twelve
7He # 6:7–13 Mt 10:5–42; Lk 9:1–6 summoned # 6:7 Lk 18:16 the Twelve # 6:7 Mk 11:11 and began to send # 6:7 Mk 3:14 them out in pairs and gave them authority over unclean # 6:7 2Co 6:17 spirits. # 6:7 Lk 11:24 8He instructed them to take nothing for the road except a staff — no bread, no traveling bag, # 6:8 Lk 10:4 no money in their belts, 9but to wear sandals and not put on an extra shirt. # 6:9 Jn 19:23 10He said to them, “Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you leave that place. 11If any place does not welcome # 6:11 Ac 17:11 you or listen to you, when you leave there, shake the dust off your feet # 6:11 Mt 10:14; Lk 9:5; 10:11; Ac 13:51 as a testimony # 6:11 1Tm 2:6 against them.” # 6:11 Other mss add Truly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom or Gomorrah on judgment day than for that town. 12So they went out and preached # 6:12 Mk 1:4 that people should repent. # 6:12 Ac 3:19; 26:20 13They drove out many demons, # 6:13 Mk 3:15; Rv 9:20; 18:2 anointed # 6:13 Mk 16:1 many sick # 6:13 1Co 11:30 people with oil # 6:13 Jms 5:14 and healed them. # 6:13 Ac 8:7
John the Baptist Beheaded
14King # 6:14–16 Lk 9:7–9 Herod # 6:14 Mt 14:1 heard about it, because Jesus’s name # 6:14 Jn 10:25 had become well known. Some # 6:14 Other mss read He said, “John the Baptist # 6:14 Mk 1:4 has been raised from the dead, # 6:14 Mt 17:9; Jn 21:14 and that’s why miraculous powers # 6:14 Mk 5:30 are at work # 6:14 1Co 12:6 in him.” 15But others said, “He’s Elijah.” # 6:15 Mk 8:28 Still others said, “He’s a prophet, like one of the prophets from long ago.” # 6:15 Mt 2:23; Ac 7:52
16When Herod # 6:16 Mt 14:1 heard of it, he said, “John, # 6:16 Mk 1:4 the one I beheaded, has been raised! ” # 6:16 Mt 26:32
17For # 6:17–29 Mt 14:6–12 Herod himself had given orders to arrest John and to chain # 6:17 Mk 15:1 him in prison on account of Herodias, # 6:17 Mt 14:3,6; Lk 3:19 his brother Philip’s wife, because he had married her. # 6:17 1Tm 5:14 18John had been telling Herod, “It is not lawful # 6:18 Mk 2:24; Jn 18:31 for you to have your brother’s wife.” # 6:18 Lv 18:16; 20:21 19So Herodias held a grudge against him and wanted to kill # 6:19 Lk 20:15 him. But she could not, 20because Herod feared # 6:20 Ps 147:11; Pr 1:7; Rv 14:7 John and protected him, knowing he was a righteous # 6:20 Mt 13:17 and holy # 6:20 Ps 20:6; 1Co 7:14 man. When Herod heard him he would be very perplexed, # 6:20 Other mss read When he heard him, he did many things,# 6:20 Lk 24:4; Jn 13:22; Ac 25:20; 2Co 4:8; Gl 4:20 and yet he liked to listen to him. # 6:20 2Co 11:19
21An opportune time came on his birthday, when Herod gave a banquet # 6:21 Jn 13:2 for his nobles, # 6:21 Rv 6:15 military commanders, # 6:21 Ac 21:31 and the leading men of Galilee. # 6:21 Mt 17:22 22When Herodias’s own daughter # 6:22 Other mss read When his daughter Herodias came in and danced, # 6:22 Mt 11:17 she pleased Herod and his guests. The king said to the girl, “Ask me whatever you want, and I’ll give it to you.” 23He promised her with an # 6:23 Heb 6:16 oath: # 6:23 Mt 5:34 “Whatever you ask me I will give you, up to half my kingdom.” # 6:23 Lk 4:5
24She went out and said to her mother, “What should I ask for? ”
“John the Baptist’s # 6:24 Mk 1:4 head,” she said.
25At once she hurried to the king and said, “I want you to give me John the Baptist’s # 6:25 Lk 7:20 head on a platter # 6:25 Mt 14:8 immediately.” 26Although the king was deeply distressed, # 6:26 Mt 26:38; Mk 14:34 because of his oaths # 6:26 Mt 5:33 and the guests # 6:26 Lit and those reclining at the table he did not want to refuse # 6:26 1Th 4:8 her. 27The king immediately sent for an executioner and commanded him to bring John’s head. So he went and beheaded him in prison, 28brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the girl. Then the girl gave it to her mother. 29When John’s disciples # 6:29 Mk 10:10; Jn 3:25 heard about it, they came and removed his corpse and placed it in a tomb. # 6:29 Jn 5:28
Feeding of the Five Thousand
30The # 6:30–44 Mt 14:13–21; Lk 9:10–17; Jn 6:1–15 apostles # 6:30 Ac 1:2; Jd 17 gathered around Jesus and reported to him all that they had done and taught. 31He said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a remote place and rest for a while.” For many people were coming and going, and they did not even have time to eat.
32So they went away in the boat by themselves to a remote place, 33but many saw them leaving and recognized them, and they ran on foot from all the towns and arrived ahead of them. # 6:33 Other mss add and gathered around him
34When he went ashore, he saw a large crowd and had compassion # 6:34 Lk 15:20 on them, because they were like sheep # 6:34 Mt 7:15 without a shepherd. Then he began to teach them many things.
35When it grew late, his disciples # 6:35 Mk 10:10 approached him and said, “This place is deserted, # 6:35 Jn 1:23; Rv 12:6 and it is already late. 36Send them away so that they can go into the surrounding countryside and villages to buy themselves something to eat.”
37 “You give them something to eat,” he responded.
They said to him, “Should we go and buy two hundred denarii # 6:37 A denarius = one day’s wage worth of bread and give them something to eat? ”
38He asked them, “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.”
When they found out they said, “Five, and two fish.” 39Then he instructed them to have all the people sit down in groups on the green grass. 40So they sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties. 41He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke the loaves. He kept giving them to his disciples to set before the people. He also divided the two fish among them all. 42Everyone ate and was satisfied. # 6:42 Mt 5:6 43They picked up twelve baskets full of pieces of bread and fish. 44Now those who had eaten the loaves were five thousand men.
Walking on the Water
45Immediately # 6:45–56 Mt 14:22–36; Jn 6:16–21 he made his disciples get into the boat and go ahead of him to the other side, to Bethsaida, # 6:45 Jn 12:21 while he dismissed the crowd. 46After he said good-bye to them, he went away to the mountain # 6:46 Mt 4:8 to pray. # 6:46 Mt 5:44; Ac 12:12 47Well into the night, the boat was in the middle of the sea, and he was alone on the land. 48He saw them straining # 6:48 Rv 20:10 at the oars, # 6:48 Or them being battered as they rowed because the wind was against them. Very early in the morning # 6:48 Lit Around the fourth watch of the night = 3 to 6 a.m. he came toward them walking on the sea and wanted to pass by them. 49When they saw him walking on the sea, they thought it was a ghost # 6:49 Mt 14:26 and cried out, 50because they all saw him and were terrified. # 6:50 Jn 5:7 Immediately he spoke with them and said, “Have courage! # 6:50 Jn 16:33 It is I. # 6:50 Ex 3:14; Ps 45:8; Jn 8:24 Don’t be afraid.” # 6:50 Jn 6:20 51Then he got into the boat with them, and the wind ceased. They were completely astounded, 52because they had not understood about the loaves. Instead, their hearts were hardened. # 6:52 Mk 8:17; Heb 3:8
Miraculous Healings
53When they had crossed over, they came to shore at Gennesaret # 6:53 Mt 14:34; Lk 5:1 and anchored there.
54As they got out of the boat, people immediately recognized him. 55They hurried throughout that region and began to carry the sick # 6:55 Lk 5:31 on mats to wherever they heard he was. 56Wherever he went, into villages, towns, or the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged him that they might touch just the end # 6:56 Mt 23:5 of his robe. # 6:56 Mt 9:20; 14:36; Lk 8:44; 19:36 And everyone who touched it was healed.
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Mark 6
6
Jesus’s own countrymen rubbished him
1Jesus and his followers left that country and went back to his own town, called Nazareth.
2-3On the Jewish people’s rest day, Jesus went to the Jewish meeting house, and he started to teach the people God’s message. A lot of the people heard his words, and they were really shocked. They said, “How does he know so much? How come he can do powerful things? He’s nobody special. We know him. He grew up here, in this town. His mother, Mary, lives here, with his brothers, James, Joses, Judas and Simon, as well as his sisters. His job here is to make things with wood.” So those Nazareth people got angry, and they wouldn’t take any notice of him.
4Jesus then said to them, “If God gives a man a message, lots of people know he is God’s man, and they respect him. But not his own people. They lived with that man and knew him from the time he was a little boy. They don’t respect him. Even his close family and relatives don’t listen to him.”#John 4:44
5-6You see, the people of Jesus’s own town didn’t believe in him, and he was really shocked. He couldn’t do anything really powerful there, because they didn’t believe in him. He only touched a few sick people and made them better. Then he left Nazareth, and went to other towns, and taught God’s word to the people there.
Jesus sent out his 12 special workers
7-11Jesus called together his 12 special workers. He told them, “You have to go to every town and tell my message to the people. Let them take care of you when you go there. Don’t take a bag, or food, or money, or spare clothes with you. Just take your shoes and a walking stick. After you get to a town, if the people in that town are happy for you to stay there, just stay in one house. Don’t move around to different houses. But if the people in that town don’t want you to be there, and if they will not listen to you, then you have to go away from that town. As you leave it, shake the dirt off your feet. That will show those people that they will get trouble. It will be like you are telling them, ‘You didn’t take any notice of my message, so God will judge you and punish you.’ ”#Luke 10:4-11; Acts 13:51
And Jesus told his special workers, “I’m giving you my power to force bad spirits out from people.” Then Jesus split them up into 6 teams with 2 men in each team, and he sent them out to do God’s work. 12So his special workers went to other towns, and they told everyone to turn around, to change their lives, and to come back to God’s way. 13Those men forced a lot of bad spirits out of people. And they put olive oil on a lot of sick people, like medicine for them, and those sick people got better.#James 5:14
Herod killed John the Baptiser
14-29This is the story about what happened to John, the man that baptised people. The big boss over that country was Herod, and his brother was Philip. Philip’s wife’s name was Herodias. But Herodias left Philip, and Herod married her.
John kept on telling Herod, “You are breaking God’s law. You shouldn’t have your brother’s wife.” Herodias hated John for saying that, and she wanted to kill him, but Herod sent some soldiers to grab John and keep him in jail, so Herodias couldn’t do anything to him. John was a good man, one of God’s own men, so Herod respected John, and he was a bit frightened of him too. Herod used to talk with John. He didn’t really understand John’s message, but he liked to listen to him.
Some time later, Herod had a birthday party. All the leaders of Herod’s army, and the government bosses from Galilee country, they were all there at Herod’s party.
Herodias’s daughter danced for them at that party. Herod and everybody else really liked to watch her dance. She made them really happy, so Herod made a strong promise to her. He told her, “I want to give you something really good. You can ask for anything. I will give you anything you ask for, even as much as half of this country. This is true. I’m not lying.”
That young girl went outside and asked her mother, “What will I ask for?”
Her mother said, “Go back in and ask the big boss to send a soldier to cut off John the Baptiser’s head and give it to you.”
The girl ran back into the party and said to Herod, “I want you to give me John the Baptiser’s head on a big plate, and I want it right now.”
When Herod heard her say that, he was really sad. But he didn’t want to break his promise. He didn’t want to feel shame in front of his friends, so he sent a soldier to cut off John’s head, and to bring it back to the girl on a big plate.
The soldier went to the jail, and he cut off John’s head, and he brought it back to the party, and he gave it to the young girl, and then she gave it to her mother.
John’s friends heard the bad news, so they came and got his body, then they took it away and buried it.
Herod was worried about Jesus
Later lots of people heard about what Jesus was doing, and they talked about him all the time. Some people said, “Jesus is really Elijah, that old man that told God’s messages a long time ago. God made him alive again.”
Some other people said, “Jesus is a man talking for God, just like those other men that told God’s messages a long time ago.”
But some people reckoned, “Jesus is really John the Baptiser. God made John alive again, and God gave him power to do great things.”
Herod heard those stories, and he said, “I got my soldiers to cut John’s head off, but this man, Jesus, he has to be John the Baptiser. I reckon God made him alive again.”#Matthew 16:14; Mark 8:28; Luke 3:19-20; 9:19
Jesus fed more than 5,000 people
30Some time later, Jesus’s 12 special workers came back from telling his message to all the towns. They stood around Jesus and told him everything they did, and everything they taught the people in the towns.
31While they were talking, lots of other people kept on coming up to Jesus, and Jesus and his followers didn’t have time to eat any food. So Jesus said to his followers, “Let’s go to a quiet place out bush, so that we can rest for a while.”
32Then Jesus and his followers got into a boat and started to go across the lake, to a quiet place away from all the people. But lots of people saw them leave. 33Those people were from a lot of different towns, but they knew the place that Jesus and his special workers were going to, so they ran around the side of the lake, and they got there first, before the boat.
34Then Jesus and his special workers got to that place, and they got out of the boat. Jesus looked at the mob of people waiting for him, and he felt sad for them. They didn’t have anyone looking after them. They were like a mob of sheep that had nobody to take care of them. So Jesus started to teach them lots of things.#Numbers 27:17; 1 Kings 22:17; 2 Chronicles 18:16; Ezekiel 34:5; Matthew 9:36
35At the end of the day, Jesus’s followers went to him and said, “It’s nearly time for the sun to go down, and we are way out here in the bush. 36You have to send the people away from here so that they can find some food. They can go to a nearby farm or to a town, to buy some food to eat.”
37Jesus said to them, “No. You mob give them some food to eat.”
But they said, “What? We haven’t got that much food. Do you want us to go and buy a lot of bread for them? That will cost thousands of dollars.”
38Jesus said to his followers, “How much food have you got? Go and see what there is.”
They came back to him and said, “We’ve got 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish.”
39-40Jesus told his followers to get the people to sit on the green grass in groups, maybe about 50 people in each group, or maybe 100 people.
41Then Jesus picked up the bread and the fish, then he looked up to the sky, and he said, “Thank you God for this bread and this fish.” Then Jesus broke the bread and the fish into bits, and he gave them to his followers to give to the people.
42All of the people got some bread and some fish, and they ate until they were full. 43After that, Jesus’s followers picked up the bits of food that nobody ate. They filled up 12 big baskets with that left-over food. 44A really big mob of people ate that food. There were 5,000 men in that mob, as well as women and kids.
45As soon as they finished eating, Jesus told his followers, “Get into the boat and row across the lake, to the place called Bethsayida. I will follow you mob some time later.”
Then he started telling all the people, “You mob can all go home now. Goodbye.” 46After he said goodbye to them, Jesus went up into the hills to pray.
Jesus walked on top of water
47Then night time came, and Jesus was still alone on the land, and the boat was half-way across the lake.
48Later that night, Jesus looked out and saw that his followers were having a hard time rowing the boat. The wind was stopping them. Just before day-light, Jesus walked to them on top of the water, and it looked like he was going to keep going past them.
49-50His followers saw him walking on the water, and they thought he was a ghost. They got really frightened, and they screamed. Straight away, Jesus said to them, “It’s all right. It’s me, I’m Jesus. Don’t be frightened.”
51Then Jesus got into the boat with his followers, and straight away the wind stopped blowing. The men in the boat were surprised. 52They still couldn’t understand about Jesus. They saw what he did with the bread and the fish the day before, but they couldn’t work it out. It was like their brains were no good.
Jesus made a lot of sick people better
53Then they got to the dry land again, in the country called Gennesaret, and they tied up the boat. 54A lot of people saw Jesus getting out of the boat, and they knew who he was, 55so they ran around everywhere in that country, and they put the sick people on swags, and they carried them to Jesus, to wherever people said that Jesus was. 56Jesus went to little towns, and to big towns in that country. Wherever he went, the people carried their sick friends and family to the middle of the town, and they put them on the ground. Those sick people asked Jesus if they could touch his clothes, and everyone that touched his clothes got better.
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