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And the use of the title 'Son of David' – the only occasion on which this is used in the Gospel of Mark – serves to identify Jesus as the Messiah. [1] It was also a reference to Jesus' kingly authority, which the Jews would have seen as placing him at odds with Caesar.
At least two other times Jesus credited the sufferer's faith as the means of being healed: Mark 10:52 and Luke 19:10. Jesus endorsed the use of the medical assistance of the time (medicines of oil and wine) when he told the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25–37), who "bound up [an injured man's] wounds, pouring on oil and wine" (verse ...
Conversely with agency, in other instances the Bible emphasises reliance on God and examples of Jesus serving or healing those who lacked the ability to help themselves, implying that self-reliance and reliance on God are complementary (See Mark 6:34; Mark 1:30–31; and Mark 10:46–52.)
Having crossed the Jordan, Jesus teaches the assembled crowd in his customary way, answering a question from the Pharisees about divorce. C. M. Tuckett suggests that Mark 8:34-10:45 constitutes a broad section of the gospel dealing with Christian discipleship and that this pericope on divorce (verses 1-12) "is not out of place" within it, although he notes that some other commentators have ...
The oral prayer (the prayer of the lips) is a simple recitation, still external to the practitioner. The focused prayer, when "the mind is focused upon the words" of the prayer, "speaking them as if they were our own". The prayer of the heart itself, when the prayer is no longer something we do but who we are.
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Mark is the only gospel with the combination of verses in Mark 4:24–25: the other gospels split them up, Mark 4:24 being found in Luke 6:38 and Matthew 7:2, Mark 4:25 in Matthew 13:12 and Matthew 25:29, Luke 8:18 and Luke 19:26. The Parable of the Growing Seed. [101] Only Mark counts the possessed swine; there are about two thousand. [102]
10 "Oft the day that the Jordan was bestowed upon Sam-Smir" b-iuma ḏ-iardna ʿhablḥ l-sam smir: prayer of the Jordan Qolastā 10: Book of Souls (masbuta liturgy) 11 "I have worshipped and praised that Yawar-Ziwa" sigdit u-šabatḥ l-hak iauar ziua: prayer of Yawar-Ziwa Qolastā 11: Book of Souls (masbuta liturgy) 12 "I am Yur son of Barit"