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N i i ■. ||g Sunday School Lessors IM a of les- -i- d'e »d f Nf- :x, I .ESSO.N .1,' Tir.; Gospel of Mark--Mark 10:35-45 Printed Ccxt Mark 10:44. THE LESSCN IN, $TS SETTING Time. The teaching of Jesus re corded in the portion of Mark's Gospel Gospel assigned t? ,his lesSon was K ivcn during March o; ^ 7^' Gospel of Mark its# was written approximately approximately 50 A. 0 - twenty years , after our Lord's as ens * on • Place,--Thr teaching, o which is foui, d • * n .the Mark's Gospel son was given m Pc , tory which lay on t.' >, of the Jordan River, be,4. s ■Sea, extending ndrtl>~^af.^. f Galilee. We do not know wftSJ5--e»« Gospel of. Mark itself was written. Mark is sometimes' called simply Mark, which was! Ms Roman name, and sometimes he is called John, or John Mark, John being his Hebrew name. His name first appears in the book of Acts (though he himself does not personally appear in the events recorded), at the time of the persecution persecution under Herod Agrippa I, when, after the martyrd, \ of James, Peter was imprisoned, an V after a miraculous miraculous deliverance by an angel of the Lord, "came to the house of Mary, the mother of John whose surname was Mark. " Professor A. T, Robertson has very finely said! "Mark is a comfort to many a young man who has made a serious blunder in life. Written for Gentiles While the Gospel of Matthew was written for Jews, it is clearly evident evident that the Gospel of Mark was written for Gentiles, and' especially Roman Gentiles.'The very brevity of the Gospel would point to this ' the - first place; the Gentile sac' es- specially those found in cha/pr-ers « : :ï to eight, would indicate Mark's intention intention of writing his Gospel for the great Gentile world; the law is not even mentioned in the second Gospel; and, while it is true that there are many quotations from the Old Testament Testament to be found here, yet only one of them is in Mark's own narrative (others occurring in speeches which Mark records) . Mark's Gospel is the briefest of the four, containing six hundred and seventy-eight verges, as compared compared with Matthew, which has one thousand and seventy-one verses, and Luke, eleven hundred and fifty-one verses, and John, eight hundred and seventy-nine verses. The entire . narrative is - a quick., nerveim, - ; - -et : as none of the vi.ee" G ■ reveal. Marie jraved;: m, acles and only half s doze Mark narrative A fuJ tic, vivid, m a'ùfe. i .detail:,* ritten in 1 lié such writers ; mil tv'isi -eali; , . --ten ar e err'Hiv ev,e : ' cases n >" the other Gospel »,e;eters, m; y of -vhic-ii details could haw be upplaxt only by an eye vuine-A - » descr*:. ing the actions of oü*., rJ ,>rd,;." u speaks 1 of Ms arnw his urndSrhis ëvvld, 'and often Jive vividly veils' actually how JcEUs looked voy-m differeM; groups, and notes varr ? «estures which our V Lord made. As we 1 very little Peter could cated to Mv-.r;?.^ to note that, v Jesus comment fession, Mark ; (8:33). The m Mark about Pi his denial (14:6 Portra Mark himself!, was an attendant er, but one wit; and it is very ; Gospel which he Lord Jesus Chris God. The key 4 "For the Son oi* to be ministère' ter, and to giv for many." T which the huma are so vividly j sion (1:41), Tiisij dignation (10:lv 17). In this Grimm Grimm limitations forth, as, e.g. and 13:32. The; miraculous bird Sermon on the ' courses, no ref a to judge the wo; ions of angels, picture "of the ;. er, moving amo of miracles a of nature the ; 35. And the James and J< hay above, there is in ! Gospel which •. ni orally commun: • 'l'art very interesting dee, saying unto him, Teacher, we would that thou shouldcst do for us whatsoever we shall ask of thee, 86. ' And he said unto them, What would ' ye that I should do for you? 37, And they said unto him. Grant . unto up that we may sit, one on thy . right . hand, and one on thy le"* 5 , thy glory. 38. But JeruMid veto them, Ye know not what y sot Ann to drink the cup tint.- » v. rum :yy they said 'vnte him. We v able. And Jesus said unto them- The cup that I drink ye shall drink; and with the baptism that I as Baptized withal shall ye be baptized. 40- But to sit- on my right hand or on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for them for whom it hath been prepared. 41. And when the ten heard it, they began began to be moved with indignation concerning James and John. 42. And Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they who are accounted to rale over the Gentiles Gentiles lord it over them; and their great ones exercise authority over them. 43. But, it is not so among you: but whosoever would become great among you, shall: he your minister. minister. 44. And whosoever would he first among you, shall he servant of all. Care To Minister 45. For the Son of man also came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. These two disciples, disciples, James and John, had just heard the Lord talk about the cross and about his suffering (vs. 33, 34), but these men are so incapable of entering .into the significance of Jesus' words that, utterly ignoring the terrible death which is soon to be the .experience of their Master, they begin to ask him for positions y of prominence for themselves at his right hand and at his left hand in the earthly kingdom which they expected expected him to set up soon. The baptism baptism of which Jesus here speaks that he is soon to be baptized- with is, of course, his dèath . Christ wisely tells them that positions of honor will he occupied by those who win them, that he will not arbitrarily distribute honors honors to his disciples, and that the prize will go, not to the one who asks for it, but to the one who wins it. Then our Lord proceeds to tell them that greatness with his disciples is not to be measured in the way the world measures greatness. "Jesus teaches that to serve is to reign, and ' that to bestow is to be blessed. This was at that time an entirely new and revolutionary idea, and is one whic 1 fG;-MV:7G 3 "- J: oes not yet underata? 1 nor!the church yet practice- We | great, nor u.a we get, bub S9, we P 1 not by being lords, but by be* l rants, not by winning crown, | i ring crosses and by fee*." : ! Our Lord , i S trate ino' ■ayir ■l": : iiOg_. self Cv, to minf This ve> Gv vai r*- Uoyd (t > ' ryMM-iyrGW-viMy G. ,t,G Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister, introduced anew technique for the lecture^ lasrsl -" h ™ for Peace and Reconstruction omtne loreigu au-uauvu » - „ , " " ith mans of Spain, China, North Africa, the Far East and Centrai , " al, > West- wüëiTh'e iiu,™w,™:sy.'ihis PM»™*™, m .«*? -«PR'S vvxjl*v*ji Axv- Jicture shows ivi r. uu>ya ua Jr,. ■ v,i r? i Jirinb ii?a > J ture. 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