Are You a Disciple? | The Gospels | Mark 3:13-19

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🗓️ 12 January 2026

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Who were Jesus's disciples? Why did Jesus change people's names? What does it mean to be a disciple? In today's episode, Keith shares how Mark 3:13-19 encourages us to be faithful disciples of Jesus. Read the Bible with us in 2026! This year, we’re exploring the Gospels—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Download your reading plan now. Want to learn even more about the Gospels? Tune into Not Just Sunday. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Mark 3:13-19

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0:00.0	Are you ready to learn even more about the Gospels?
0:03.7	Tune in to Not Just Sunday, TNBT's companion podcast, to hear Keith and Patrick answer your
0:10.5	questions about Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. You'll pick up practical tips for how you
0:16.5	can get the most out of your time in God's Word. You can find Not Just Sunday at the link in our show
0:21.9	notes. Now, here's today's 10-minute Bible Talks devotional.
0:32.2	Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life. In the time it
0:36.5	takes to get to work. I'm Keith Simon.
0:40.2	Today in our time together, we're going to be in Mark chapter 3, and we're going to look back to when
0:45.0	Jesus named his apostles. There's so much in here for us. But before we dive in, let's pray.
0:52.2	Father, we pray that you would open your word to us that we might see your
0:56.3	truth in it and we pray that you would open our heart that we would receive what you have to say to us
1:02.2	today it's in jesus name we pray amen all right so mark chapter three verse seven jesus withdrew
1:09.6	with his disciples to the sea and a great crowd crowd followed from Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem and Edomia, and from beyond the Jordan and from around Tyre and Sidon.
1:19.6	When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him, and he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd lest they crush him for he had healed many so that all who had diseases pressed around him to touch him even when jesus withdraws and tries to be alone large crowds follow him and from the list of cities we see the people are coming from further and further away, and the people are more and more
1:45.2	ethnically and religiously diverse. The cities of Tyre and Sidon are about 100 miles away,
1:51.5	and this crowd is more diverse. There's Jew and Gentile, rich and poor, people from the city and people
1:57.5	from the country. Jesus is at the height of his popularity. The crowd is pressing
2:02.4	in so that Jesus tells the disciples to prepare a boat so he can get away if necessary. Sometimes
2:08.6	we imagine Jesus walking along, surrounded by children and little lambs, but that's not how the
2:14.6	gospels depict him. It's more like the arrival of a popular leader being jostled by crowds and hassled by antagonistic reporters and the paparazzi.
2:23.7	The word crowds is mentioned 40 times in the first nine chapters of Mark.
2:27.9	The crowds serve as an audience of Jesus' teaching and the object of his compassion, but the crowds really never
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