Mark 6
6
Rejection at Nazareth
1He # Mt 13:53-58 went away from there and came to His hometown, # Mk 1:9 and His disciples # Mt 9:10; Mk 10:10; Lk 6:1; Jn 6:3; Ac 6:1 followed Him. 2When the Sabbath # Mk 2:23; Lk 13:10 came, He began to teach # Mt 28:20; Ac 4:2; 2Tm 4:11 in the synagogue, # Jms 2:2 and many who heard Him were astonished. “Where did this man get these things? ” they said. “What is this wisdom # Pr 3:19; Ac 7:22; 1Co 1:21 given to Him, and how are these miracles # Ac 19:11 performed by His hands? 3Isn’t this the carpenter, # Mt 13:55 the son of Mary, # Mt 1:16 and the brother of James, # Jms 1:1; Jd 1 Joses, Judas, # Mt 13:55; Jd 1 and Simon? And aren’t His sisters here with us? ” So they were offended # Jn 16:1 by Him.
4Then Jesus said to them, “A prophet # Mt 2:23 is not without honor # Mt 13:57; 1Co 4:10; 12:23 except in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his household.” 5So He was not able to do any miracles # Lit miracle # Ac 19:11 there, except that He laid His hands on # 1Tm 5:22 a few sick # 1Co 11:30 people and healed # Ac 8:7 them. 6And He was amazed # Rv 17:6 at their unbelief. # Heb 3:12,19
Commissioning the Twelve
Now He was going around the villages in a circuit, teaching. # Mt 28:20; Ac 4:2; 2Tm 4:11 7He # Mt 10:5-42; Lk 9:1-6 summoned # Lk 18:16 the Twelve # Mk 11:11 and began to send # Mk 3:14 them out in pairs and gave them authority over unclean # 2Co 6:17 spirits. # Lk 11:24 8He instructed them to take nothing for the road except a walking stick: no bread, no traveling bag, # Lk 10:4 no money in their belts. 9They were to wear sandals, but not put on an extra shirt. # Jn 19:23 10Then He said to them, “Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you leave that place. 11If any place does not welcome # Ac 17:11 you and people refuse to listen to you, when you leave there, shake the dust off your feet # Mt 10:14; Lk 9:5; 10:11; Ac 13:51 as a testimony # 1Tm 2:6 against them.” # Other mss add I assure you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom or Gomorrah on judgment day than for that town.
12So they went out and preached # Mk 1:4 that people should repent. # Ac 3:19; 26:20 13And they were driving out many demons, # Mk 3:15; Rv 9:20; 18:2 anointing # Mk 16:1 many sick # 1Co 11:30 people with olive oil, # Jms 5:14 and healing them. # Ac 8:7
John the Baptist Beheaded
14King # Lk 9:7-9 Herod # Mt 14:1 heard of this, because Jesus’ name # Jn 10:25 had become well known. Some # Other mss read He said, “John the Baptist # Mk 1:4 has been raised from the dead, # Mt 17:9; Jn 21:14 and that’s why supernatural powers # Mk 5:30 are at work # 1Co 12:6 in him.” 15But others said, “He’s Elijah.” # Mk 8:28 Still others said, “He’s a prophet # Lit Others said, “A prophet — like one of the prophets.” # Mt 2:23; Ac 7:52
16When Herod # Mt 14:1 heard of it, he said, “John, # Mk 1:4 the one I beheaded, has been raised! ” # Mt 26:32 17For # Mt 14:6-12 Herod himself had given orders to arrest John and to chain # Mk 15:1 him in prison on account of Herodias, # Mt 14:3,6; Lk 3:19 his brother Philip’s wife, whom he had married. # 1Tm 5:14 18John had been telling Herod, “It is not lawful # Mk 2:24; Jn 18:31 for you to have your brother’s wife! ” # Lv 18:16; 20:21 19So Herodias held a grudge against him and wanted to kill # Lk 20:15 him. But she could not, 20because Herod was in awe # Ps 147:11; Pr 1:7; Rv 14:7 of # Or Herod feared John and was protecting him, knowing he was a righteous # Mt 13:17 and holy # Ps 20:6; 1Co 7:14 man. When Herod heard him he would be very disturbed, # Other mss read When he heard him, he did many things # Lk 24:4; Jn 13:22; Ac 25:20; 2Co 4:8; Gl 4:20 yet would hear him gladly. # 2Co 11:19
21Now an opportune time came on his birthday, when Herod gave a banquet # Jn 13:2 for his nobles, # Rv 6:15 military commanders, # Ac 21:31 and the leading men of Galilee. # Mt 17:22 22When Herodias’s own daughter # Other mss read When his daughter Herodias came in and danced, # 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.” 23So he swore # Heb 6:16 oaths # Mt 5:34 to her: “Whatever you ask me I will give you, up to half my kingdom.” # Lk 4:5
24Then she went out and said to her mother, “What should I ask for? ”
“John the Baptist’s # Mk 1:4 head! ” she said.
25Immediately she hurried to the king and said, “I want you to give me John the Baptist’s # Lk 7:20 head on a platter # Mt 14:8 — right now! ”
26Though the king was deeply distressed, # Mt 26:38; Mk 14:34 because of his oaths # Mt 5:33 and the guests # Lit and those reclining at the table he did not want to refuse # 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 his disciples # = John’s disciples # Mk 10:10; Jn 3:25 heard about it, they came and removed his corpse and placed it in a tomb. # Jn 5:28
Feeding 5,000
30The # Mt 14:13-21; Lk 9:10-17; Jn 6:1-15 apostles # 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. People ran there by land from all the towns and arrived ahead of them. # Other mss add and gathered around Him 34So as He stepped ashore, He saw a huge crowd and had compassion # Lk 15:20 on them, because they were like sheep # Mt 7:15 without a shepherd. Then He began to teach them many things.
35When it was already late, His disciples # Mk 10:10 approached Him and said, “This place is a wilderness, # Jn 1:23; Rv 12:6 and it is already late! 36Send them away, so 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 200 denarii # Mt 18:28 worth of bread and give them something to eat? ”
38And He asked them, “How many loaves do you have? Go look.”
When they found out they said, “Five, and two fish.”
39Then He instructed them to have all the people sit down # Lit people recline in groups on the green grass. 40So they sat down in ranks of hundreds and fifties. 41Then He 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 filled. # Mt 5:6 43Then they picked up 12 baskets full of pieces of bread and fish. 44Now those who ate the loaves were 5,000 men.
Walking on the Water
45Immediately # 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, # Jn 12:21 while He dismissed the crowd. 46After He said good-bye to them, He went away to the mountain # Mt 4:8 to pray. # Mt 5:44; Ac 12:12 47When evening came, the boat was in the middle of the sea, and He was alone on the land. 48He saw them being battered # Rv 20:10 as they rowed, # Or them struggling as they rowed because the wind was against them. Around three in the morning # 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 # Mt 14:26 and cried out; 50for they all saw Him and were terrified. # Jn 5:7 Immediately He spoke with them and said, “Have courage! # Jn 16:33 It is I. # Ex 3:14; Ps 45:8; Jn 8:24 Don’t be afraid.” # Jn 6:20 51Then He got into the boat with them, and the wind ceased. They were completely astounded, # Lit were astounded in themselves 52because they had not understood about the loaves. Instead, their hearts were hardened. # Mk 8:17; Heb 3:8
Miraculous Healings
53When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret # Mt 14:34; Lk 5:1 and beached the boat. 54As they got out of the boat, people immediately recognized Him. 55They hurried throughout that vicinity and began to carry the sick # Lk 5:31 on mats to wherever they heard He was. 56Wherever He would go, into villages, towns, or the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged Him that they might touch just the tassel # Mt 23:5 of His robe. # Mt 9:20; 14:36; Lk 8:44; 19:36 And everyone who touched it was made well.
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Mark 6
6
Jesus Rejected at Nazareth
1Jesus left that part of the country and returned with his disciples to Nazareth, his hometown. 2The next Sabbath he began teaching in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed. They asked, “Where did he get all this wisdom and the power to perform such miracles?” 3Then they scoffed, “He’s just a carpenter, the son of Mary#6:3a Some manuscripts read He’s just the son of the carpenter and of Mary. and the brother of James, Joseph,#6:3b Most manuscripts read Joses; see Matt 13:55. Judas, and Simon. And his sisters live right here among us.” They were deeply offended and refused to believe in him.
4Then Jesus told them, “A prophet is honored everywhere except in his own hometown and among his relatives and his own family.” 5And because of their unbelief, he couldn’t do any miracles among them except to place his hands on a few sick people and heal them. 6And he was amazed at their unbelief.
Jesus Sends Out the Twelve Disciples
Then Jesus went from village to village, teaching the people. 7And he called his twelve disciples together and began sending them out two by two, giving them authority to cast out evil#6:7 Greek unclean. spirits. 8He told them to take nothing for their journey except a walking stick—no food, no traveler’s bag, no money.#6:8 Greek no copper coins in their money belts. 9He allowed them to wear sandals but not to take a change of clothes.
10 “Wherever you go,” he said, “stay in the same house until you leave town. 11But if any place refuses to welcome you or listen to you, shake its dust from your feet as you leave to show that you have abandoned those people to their fate.”
12So the disciples went out, telling everyone they met to repent of their sins and turn to God. 13And they cast out many demons and healed many sick people, anointing them with olive oil.
The Death of John the Baptist
14Herod Antipas, the king, soon heard about Jesus, because everyone was talking about him. Some were saying,#6:14 Some manuscripts read He was saying. “This must be John the Baptist raised from the dead. That is why he can do such miracles.” 15Others said, “He’s the prophet Elijah.” Still others said, “He’s a prophet like the other great prophets of the past.”
16When Herod heard about Jesus, he said, “John, the man I beheaded, has come back from the dead.”
17For Herod had sent soldiers to arrest and imprison John as a favor to Herodias. She had been his brother Philip’s wife, but Herod had married her. 18John had been telling Herod, “It is against God’s law for you to marry your brother’s wife.” 19So Herodias bore a grudge against John and wanted to kill him. But without Herod’s approval she was powerless, 20for Herod respected John; and knowing that he was a good and holy man, he protected him. Herod was greatly disturbed whenever he talked with John, but even so, he liked to listen to him.
21Herodias’s chance finally came on Herod’s birthday. He gave a party for his high government officials, army officers, and the leading citizens of Galilee. 22Then his daughter, also named Herodias,#6:22 Some manuscripts read the daughter of Herodias herself. came in and performed a dance that greatly pleased Herod and his guests. “Ask me for anything you like,” the king said to the girl, “and I will give it to you.” 23He even vowed, “I will give you whatever you ask, up to half my kingdom!”
24She went out and asked her mother, “What should I ask for?”
Her mother told her, “Ask for the head of John the Baptist!”
25So the girl hurried back to the king and told him, “I want the head of John the Baptist, right now, on a tray!”
26Then the king deeply regretted what he had said; but because of the vows he had made in front of his guests, he couldn’t refuse her. 27So he immediately sent an executioner to the prison to cut off John’s head and bring it to him. The soldier beheaded John in the prison, 28brought his head on a tray, and gave it to the girl, who took it to her mother. 29When John’s disciples heard what had happened, they came to get his body and buried it in a tomb.
Jesus Feeds Five Thousand
30The apostles returned to Jesus from their ministry tour and told him all they had done and taught. 31Then Jesus said, “Let’s go off by ourselves to a quiet place and rest awhile.” He said this because there were so many people coming and going that Jesus and his apostles didn’t even have time to eat.
32So they left by boat for a quiet place, where they could be alone. 33But many people recognized them and saw them leaving, and people from many towns ran ahead along the shore and got there ahead of them. 34Jesus saw the huge crowd as he stepped from the boat, and he had compassion on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he began teaching them many things.
35Late in the afternoon his disciples came to him and said, “This is a remote place, and it’s already getting late. 36Send the crowds away so they can go to the nearby farms and villages and buy something to eat.”
37But Jesus said, “You feed them.”
“With what?” they asked. “We’d have to work for months to earn enough money#6:37 Greek It would take 200 denarii. A denarius was equivalent to a laborer’s full day’s wage. to buy food for all these people!”
38 “How much bread do you have?” he asked. “Go and find out.”
They came back and reported, “We have five loaves of bread and two fish.”
39Then Jesus told the disciples to have the people sit down in groups on the green grass. 40So they sat down in groups of fifty or a hundred.
41Jesus took the five loaves and two fish, looked up toward heaven, and blessed them. Then, breaking the loaves into pieces, he kept giving the bread to the disciples so they could distribute it to the people. He also divided the fish for everyone to share. 42They all ate as much as they wanted, 43and afterward, the disciples picked up twelve baskets of leftover bread and fish. 44A total of 5,000 men and their families were fed.#6:44 Some manuscripts read fed from the loaves.
Jesus Walks on Water
45Immediately after this, Jesus insisted that his disciples get back into the boat and head across the lake to Bethsaida, while he sent the people home. 46After telling everyone good-bye, he went up into the hills by himself to pray.
47Late that night, the disciples were in their boat in the middle of the lake, and Jesus was alone on land. 48He saw that they were in serious trouble, rowing hard and struggling against the wind and waves. About three o’clock in the morning#6:48 Greek About the fourth watch of the night. Jesus came toward them, walking on the water. He intended to go past them, 49but when they saw him walking on the water, they cried out in terror, thinking he was a ghost. 50They were all terrified when they saw him.
But Jesus spoke to them at once. “Don’t be afraid,” he said. “Take courage! I am here!#6:50 Or The ‘I Am’ is here; Greek reads I am. See Exod 3:14.” 51Then he climbed into the boat, and the wind stopped. They were totally amazed, 52for they still didn’t understand the significance of the miracle of the loaves. Their hearts were too hard to take it in.
53After they had crossed the lake, they landed at Gennesaret. They brought the boat to shore 54and climbed out. The people recognized Jesus at once, 55and they ran throughout the whole area, carrying sick people on mats to wherever they heard he was. 56Wherever he went—in villages, cities, or the countryside—they brought the sick out to the marketplaces. They begged him to let the sick touch at least the fringe of his robe, and all who touched him were healed.
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