Day 154: The Baptism of Jesus (2026)
The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
As we begin reading the Gospel of Mark, Fr. Mike points out several amazing details about the baptism of Jesus, as well as some important points about the healing of the paralytic. The readings are Mark 1-2 and Psalm 11.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name's Father Mike Schmitz and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast, where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. |
| 0:10.7 | The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:13.4 | Using the great adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. |
| 0:21.1 | It is day 154. It is our second messianic checkpoint. We begin today. We're reading Mark |
| 0:27.4 | chapters 1 and chapter 2. We're also praying Psalm 11. One little note about the gospel of Mark |
| 0:32.9 | after these words, the words that you always heard, you hear every single day. We are reading, I am reading from the Bible translation known as the revised standard version, the second Catholic edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year. And you can subscribe to this podcast by clicking on, subscribe, and receive daily episodes every single day, |
| 0:54.8 | approximately up to this point, roughly 154 of those days episodes, just delivered to your |
| 0:59.4 | inbox or wherever you listen to podcast. As I said, today we are starting the second |
| 1:03.7 | messianic checkpoint, Mark's Gospel. Now, Mark is the shortest gospel. And so this is going to be |
| 1:08.9 | a great experience. I'm so excited. When we went |
| 1:12.2 | through with Gospel John, the Gospel of John is one of the longer Gospels, and we're going to |
| 1:16.6 | the opposite. Mark, the shortest gospel. Now, not only are we kind of going to the opposite gospel. |
| 1:22.2 | Mark, Matthew, and Luke are known as the Synoptic Gospels, and that means that they will, they're very, very similar. |
| 1:28.6 | In fact, St. John in the Gospel of John |
| 1:31.2 | is completely unique from the other three Gospels. |
| 1:34.4 | But Mark, Matthew, and Luke are very similar to each other. |
| 1:38.8 | One of the things that we note about this |
| 1:40.8 | is that scholars have pointed out that the gospel of Mark is probably the basis |
| 1:47.4 | or the foundation for the Gospels of Matthew and the Gospels of Luke that Matthew and Luke must |
| 1:52.8 | have, or very, very likely use Mark as one of their templates to tell their story about Jesus's |
| 1:59.2 | life. And so we kind of have like the original, the OG, old G gospel right here when it comes |
| 2:04.9 | to Mark's Gospel. |
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