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🗓️ 31 July 2025
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to our Bible study on the Gospel of Mark. |
0:06.6 | Last time we talked about the mystery of the bread and Jesus. |
0:10.2 | And we saw at the end of that story, as Jesus was teaching about himself being the true bread, |
0:15.8 | he asked in question the disciples, are you deaf? |
0:20.4 | Are you blind? Do you fail to understand? And he repeated that |
0:23.7 | several times. And then he went back and he said, remember when we fed the 5,000, how many baskets |
0:28.0 | left over? And they say 12. When we fed the 7,000, how many baskets left over? And they say 7. |
0:33.3 | And then he says, at the end of verse 21 of chapter 8, do you still not understand? So we get this theme of understanding. And then he says, at the end of verse 21 of chapter 8, do you still not understand? |
0:39.3 | So we get this theme of understanding. And then what happens next is an episode where Jesus is going |
0:45.4 | to heal a man in Beth Sayeda. And we're told in verse 22, they came to the village of Beth Sayada, |
0:51.0 | and some of the people brought to him a blind man and begged him to touch him. |
0:55.6 | Now, before we dive into that scene, I want to highlight something. The way Mark's gospel works, |
1:01.5 | like many gospels, but Mark has this episodic feel to it more than any other gospel. It seems |
1:07.1 | like you're going from one little episode to the next little episode to the next |
1:11.2 | little episode. And you can kind of, as you go from one story to the next, you kind of just |
1:17.5 | focus in on that one little episode and you forget what followed, what preceded. And oftentimes |
1:22.3 | what can happen is we miss the connections of these stories. And I want to highlight what oftentimes happens with these stories is that they're interwoven. |
1:31.2 | They're kind of like each, think of each episode like a pearl, but they're all on a beautiful necklace, and they all string together, not separate. |
1:40.0 | And we have to follow that narrative thread so that we can string these little episodes together |
1:45.0 | and see how they cohere and how there's a beauty and a power to these stories as they all hold together. |
1:52.3 | So when we go to the story of the blind men and Beth Saeda, |
1:55.9 | and we just heard Jesus with the bread and the teaching about that, |
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