Welcome back to our Bible study on the Gospel of Mark.

Last time we left off with Jesus healing the paralytic, first of his sins and then of his paralysis.

And we saw that Jesus was enacting a new exodus with this event.

And he describes it, noting their hardness of hearts, and he says, why do you say

in your hearts? And then he goes on to show them, as we saw it, so that you may know. And we saw

how that was a refrain in the story of the Exodus, with Pharaoh and Moses, and that great confrontation.

And now Jesus is the new Moses,

and he's confronting a surprisingly new Pharaoh,

the Pharisees and the scribes.

By their doubting and opposing Jesus,

they've put themselves in the place

of none other than Pharaoh himself.

And so Jesus says, so that you may know, because they don't know God's ways, and they don't

recognize God's ways. And so for Pharaoh, he didn't recognize Yahweh. For the Pharisees,

they don't recognize that God is Jesus, that Jesus is the son of Yahweh,

and that he is enacting a new exodus.

And in this new exodus, it's not the delivery from Pharaoh's soldiers, it's the deliverance from sin.

And the forgiveness of sins is going to mark the new and deeper liberation that Jesus'

new Exodus will usher in. And then he goes on, he says, but so that you may know that the Son

of man has authority on earth. Now this half of the phrase doesn't go back to the Exodus story.

It goes back to a key prophet.

The prophet Daniel. In Daniel chapter 7, Daniel has a mystical vision of the heavens,

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