Hi, my name is 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. The Bible in a year podcast is brought to

you by Ascension. 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.

It is day 155. We are on day two of our second messianic checkpoint. We are reading from Mark's Gospel chapters 3 and 4. We're also praying today from Psalm 20. As always,

the Bible translation that I am reading from is the revised standard version, the second Catholic

edition, and I'm using Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a year reading plan, you can visit

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podcast episodes, but as I said, it is day 155. We are reading Mark's Gospel, chapters three and

four, and we're praying Psalm 20. The Gospel of St. Mark, chapter three, four and we're praying psalm twenty the gospel of st mark chapter three the man with a withered hand again he entered the synagogue and a man was there who had a withered hand and they watched him to see whether he would heal him on the sabbath so that they might accuse him and he said to the man with the withered hand come here and he said to them is it lawful on the Sabbath so that they might accuse him. And he said to the man with the withered hand,

Come here. And he said to them, is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill? But they were silent. And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their

hardness of heart, and said to the man, stretch out your hand. He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

The Pharisees went out and immediately held counsel with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.

A multitude by the sea.

Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed,

also from Judea and Jerusalem and Ijumia, and from beyond the Jordan, and from great multitude from Galilee followed, also from Judea and Jerusalem and

Ijumia, and from beyond the Jordan, and from about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, hearing all

that he did, came to him. And he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him, because of the

crowd, lest they should crush him. For he had healed many, so that all who had diseases

pressed upon him to touch him.

And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out,

You are the son of God.

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