Welcome to a year in the Bible with daily grace. My name is Kristen and my name is Katie and we want to spend a few minutes a day with you walking through the New Testament one chapter at a time.

This year we will fix our gaze upon Christ so that we may know

him, not only with our minds but with our hearts. Together we will learn that

who Jesus is changes everything.

Hello and welcome back to is, changes everything.

Hello and welcome back to a year in the Bible podcast where we are walking through the New Testament one chapter a day for five days a week.

My name is Katie and I'm one of your co-host here on a year in the Bible podcast and today we are going to be in Mark 2. Yesterday we looked at

the first chapter of Mark's Gospel where we saw Jesus baptism,

his temptation in the wilderness and the beginning of his ministry.

We also saw crowds be stunned by Jesus' authority, both in his teaching and in healing people.

Today we will see Jesus' authority and his popularity with the crowds, but we will also see another group and how they respond

to Jesus. Think about this. When someone gets really popular and starts to amass a lot of

fans, who inevitably shows up.

The critics, right?

Well, now we are introduced to Jesus's critics

with five scenes, each of which deals with a controversy that arises over him.

We'll look at four of those controversies today and we'll cover the fifth one tomorrow

while we're looking at Mark 3. The first controversy has to do with Jesus healing a paralyzed man.

To set the scene Jesus is teaching in a home, a place that's packed.

And this creates a problem for four men who are trying to bring a paralyzed friend to Jesus.

But being persistent, they go up to the roof.

They dig a hole in it and lower the man to Jesus. And Jesus notices their faith and says to the

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