[sidenote: props to Jonathan Liu for the verse. Saw it on the facebook page!]
Memory Verse: "Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." Mark 14:38
Notes: (v.1-6) Jesus and his disciples were walking through grainfields on the Sabbath, when the disciples got hungry and began to pick grain.
The Pharisees began condemning them, accusing them of doing what is "unlawful on the Sabbath"
Jesus' reply: He references what David did then his companions were hungry: they went into the house of God and ate consecrated bread
The Pharisees did not know the meaning of the phrase, "I desire MERCY, not sacrifice," or else they would not have condemned the innocent
-(v.9-13) Again, the Pharisees tried to trap Jesus by asking, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?" (referring to a man with a shriveled hand)
Jesus replied: "If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out? 12 How much more valuable is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath"
-(v.15-20) The Pharisees began plotting Jesus' death; Jesus withdrew from that place and warned the people that he healed not to tell who he was
Words of the prophet Isaiah fulfilled (ref. Isaiah 42:1-4)
-(v.22-27) Jesus healed a demon-possessed man, and the Pharisees accused Him of being Beelzebub
In turn, Jesus said, "If Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then can his kingdom stand?"
(v.30-32) Jesus says, "Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either at this age or in the age to come"
What does this mean?
-(v.33) A good tree produced good fruit
-(v.38-45) The Pharisees ask of a miracle from Jesus, and he responds with the sign of Jonah
Why did the Pharisees want Jesus to perform a miracle?
What does Jesus mean when he compares the evil generation to a spirit that came out of a man?
-(v.50) "For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother"
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