Gospel According to Saint Mark - I

Mark - Part I

“...John came, baptizing...in the Jordan River...And this was his message: ’After me will come one more powerful than I, the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.’” (Mark 1:4-8 / ASD-NIV)

“...Jesus...was baptized by John in the Jordan. As Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: ’You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.’” (Mark 1:9-11 / ASD-NIV)

“A man with leprosy came to him and begged him on his knees, ’If you are willing, you can make me clean.’ Filled with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. ’I am willing,’ he said. ’Be clean!’ Immediately the leprosy left him and he was cured.” (Mark 1:40-42 / ASD-NIV)

“And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. For the wine would burst the wineskins, and the wine and the skins would both be lost. New wine calls for new wineskins.” (Mark 2:22 / 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….’ Then Jesus said to them, ’The Sabbath was made to meet the needs of the people, and not people to meet the requirements of Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord, even over the Sabbath!’” (Mark 2:23-24 and 27-28 / NLT)

“Whoever does what God wants is my brother, my sister and my mother.” (Mark 3:35 / TEV)

“’What shall we say the Kingdom of God is like?’ asked Jesus…’It is like this. A man takes a mustard seed, the smallest seed in the world and plants it…. and becomes the biggest of all plants.’” (Mark 4:30-32 / TEV)

“Jesus was sleeping at the back of the boat with his head on a cushion. The disciples woke him up, shouting, ’Teacher, don’t you care that we’re going to drown?’ When Jesus woke up, he rebuked the wind and said to the waves, ’Silence! Be still!’ Suddenly, the wind stopped, and there was a great calm. Then he asked them, ’Why are you afraid? Do you still have no faith?’” (Mark 4:38-40 / NLT)

“Prophets are respected everywhere except in their own hometown and by their relatives and their family.” (Mark 6:4 / TEV)

“He was going to pass them by, but they saw him walking on the water. ’It’s a ghost!’ they thought…. They were all terrified when they saw him. Jesus spoke to them at once, ’Courage!’ he said. ’It is I. Don’t be afraid!’” (Mark 6:48-50 / TEV)

“Jesus and his disciples left Galilee and went up to the villages near Caesarea Philippi. As they were walking along, he asked them, ’Who do people say I am?’…Peter replied, ’You are the Messiah.’” (Mark 8:27-29 / NLT)

“For if you want to save your own life, you will lose it; but if you lose your life for me and the gospel, you will save it.” (Mark 8:35 / TEV)

“...and a (God’s) voice came from the cloud: ’This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him!’” (Mark 9:7 / ASD-NIV)

“Whoever wants to be first must take last place and be the servant of everyone else.” (Mark 9:35 / NLT)

“It is much harder for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God than for a camel to go through an eye of a needle.” (Mark 10:25 / TEV)

“Everything is possible for God.” (Mark 10:27 / TEV)

“If one of you wants to be great, you must be the servant of the rest; and if one of you wants to be the first, you must be the slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served; he came to serve and to give his life to redeem many people.” (Mark 10:43-45 / TEV)

“They came to Jericho, and as Jesus was leaving his disciples and a large crowd, a blind man named Bartimaeus son of Timaeus was sitting by the road. When he heard it was Jesus of Nazareth, he begun to shout, ’Jesus! Son of David! Have mercy on me!’” (Mark 10:46-47 / TEV)

“For even the Son of Man did not come to be served; he came to serve and to give his life to redeem many people.” (Mark 10:45 / TEV)