Mark 10

Passage: Divorce, The Little Children and Jesus, The Rich Young Man, Jesus Again Predicts His Death, The Request of James and John, Blind Bartimaeus Receives His Sight

Memory Verse: "I can do everything in Him who gives me strength" -Philippians 4:13

Notes: (v.1-11) The Pharisees came to Jesus and asked him if it was lawful for a man to diorce his wife. Jesus asked them about Moses, and they replied that Moses permitted a man to divorce his wife and send her away.

Jesus said that Moses created this law because of their hardened hearts. In the beginning, God made a male and female so that a man would leave his parents and be united to his wife so that the two will become one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.

Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her.

-(v.13-16) People brought little children to Jesus, but the disciples rebuked them. Jesus was indignant at this and said, "I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it." Then he blessed the children.

-(v.17-31) A rich young man came to Jesus and asked what needed to be done to inherit eternal life. Jesus told him to obey the commandments, but the man has kept these commandments already.

(v.21)"Jesus looked at him and love him." The one thing the man needed to do was to sell all his possessions and give to the poor so that he will store treasures in heaven. The man went away sad, because he had great wealth.

Jesus said, "It it easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." As the disciples realized that this was impossible, Jesus responded, "With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God."

-The first will be last, and the last first.

-(v.32-34) On his way to Jerusalem, Jesus tells his disciples that the Son of Man will be betrayed by the teachers of the law. He will be condemned to death and be killed by the Gentiles. But he will rise three days later.

-(v.35-45) James and John asked Jesus to place one at his right and the other at his left in heaven. Jesus told them that this is not for him to grant, and that these places belong to those for whom they have been prepared.

"Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

-(v.46-52) A blind man, Bartimaeus, was sitting by the roadside when he heard Jesus. He begged Jesus to have mercy on him, so Jesus responded. Because of his faith, the man received sight and followed Jesus.