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

We are going to begin in Chapter 4 of the Gospel of Mark to one of the rare chapters in Mark

where we have Jesus giving an extended teaching.

That only happens in two chapters in the entirety of the Gospel of Mark,

chapter 4 and chapter 13. So

chapter 4, we're going to get the closest thing to a long discourse of Jesus. And yet Mark's got to

interweave even in here some action and some activity. So we begin at the sea. So it says, again,

he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea. Now, the Greek is rather awkward. Because if you read the Greek, it says that Jesus got on there and that Jesus sat on the sea, which is really an awkward phrase. You'd rather say he sat

on the boat in the midst of the sea, but he sat on the sea. So people look at that and they say,

oh my goodness, this is probably where Augustine was mortified. That's just such terrible Greek.

You know, it's just really embarrassing. But I think sometimes when Mark's Greek is bad, it's bad on purpose

because he's quoting something in Hebrew.

And I think Mark is actually making a point here.

He is envisioning, he's picturing for you Jesus' teaching on the sea.

And in doing that, I think he's alluding to Psalm 29, verse 10. He's picturing for you Jesus' teaching on the sea.

And in doing that, I think he's alluding to Psalm 29, verse 10.

In Psalm 29, you have this refrain over and over again.

The voice of the Lord goes over the trees and shakes the Cedars 11.

The voice of the Lord is this mighty voice.

And then at a key point at the heart of the Psalm,

the voice of Lord in verse 10 is over the waters.

And so what, again, Mark is showing you is Jesus,

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