Jimmy Doyle

@travisbruno3 Doyle What does pseudepigraphal mean? It means a text written or attributed to an author who did not actually write it. There are many such texts that were used in early Judaism and e...

They cast out many demons and anointed many sick people with ˻olive˼ oil and healed them. Mark 6:13 Though the Greek does not specifically say the oil was from olives (it simply says 'oil'), it is li...

Here is the LUMO video (from the ESV translation) for Mark 6, if it helps anyone to watch or listen to the passage:

@mallary-malwick New Testament scholar Joel Marcus does a great job on some of this comparison: “This woman is at the opposite end of the social, economic, and religious spectrum from Jairus. While h...

@shelley-johnson @amberhocker Maybe we should do a podcast dealing with women in the Bible and scriptures related to women. The two of you could do it.

@shelley-johnson I sometimes find it is difficult to discuss these elements of scripture with friends and family because of it's ancient cultural contexts. It's not that they have a difficulty with th...

@shelley-johnson @amberhocker Im interested in how you, as women, approach biblical passages dealing with issues like this related to women (Like Leviticus 15), when the core issue also has to do with...

Posted by: @okiebull13 My commentary stated that it was very much the norm for mourners to cry out loudly…and that it was a disgrace to the family of the deceased if it did not happen This might sou...

@travisbruno3 Travis, interesting point and question. I don't know that I have anything to add or respond to your question: I suppose a difference is that the demonized man bows down, and Jairus just...

@amberhocker Amber...if you want to put together a trip to the Holy Land, I'm in.

Great info!

As part of today's reading and study, don't miss the guest post by Shelley Johnson on The Decapolis.

@shelley-johnson Shelley, you wrote: The demon possessed man, and I assume it is the demons talking, says “…I implore you by God…”. Is this significant? What god is he talking about? Jesus seems to ...

@fandrewstx Frank you wrote: The demon possessed man, and I assume it is the demons talking, says “…I implore you by God…”. Is this significant? What god is he talking about? The demon is begging ...

If it helps anyone to watch or listen, here is the LUMO video for Mark 5. It is narrated in the ESV.

This week's readings are all from Mark chapters 5. Click here to see a list of each day's readings. Each day's segments of the readings will be posted on this site during the week. Today's Readi...

@vltaylor1136 You wrote: Would Jesus’s response to each of these people have something to do with the people they would have an opportunity to witness too? There would be three different audiences, ...

@8ill8ook Ha! Great question. Jesus probably would have slept through it.

Your voice alone would be incredible.

@okiebull13 Jeff, you asked about disciples: '...but the disciples also seem to be a “special group” of followers as they were given the privilege to travel with Jesus in His boat…is there anything o...

Here are some passages from the scriptures that are similar to some of these ideas in regard to the upside-down, unexpected nature of the revelation/insight into the mysteries and wisdom of God: Danie...

@mallary-malwick @travisbruno3 @shelley-johnson Shelley wrote: ...maybe Jesus really is saying for those on the outside -- those who really have no intention of being part but, perhaps, listen in so ...

@mallary-malwick wrote: What is the significance of Jesus renaming Simon, James and John? Why “sons of thunder”? Why not all of the disciples? Mallary, the Gospels do not tell us directly why these ...

@okiebull13 That may be true. But this explanation should not minimize that members of Jesus' family (or those close to him) also thought he might be 'out of his mind' (more exactly: crazy). There is ...

@shelley-johnson: that's why we read Scripture together, yes? To try to see who God really is. And Jesus is our very best way to do so. YES!

@shelley-johnson Maybe because we equate anger with sin? That's interesting isn't it? How we do that. How we make things sins that aren't? I also wonder, coming from another angle, if there are peop...

The Greek word for "accuse" in 3:2 is katēgoreō. We get the English word "category" or "categorize" from this word. In Greek it means to blame or accuse, or to make an allegation against, so the meani...

@shelley-johnson & @jralphsmith, do you think it is difficult or easy for people to picture an angry Jesus?

The key for me to remember is that I am a sinner. I think that's what the scribes also missed.

Tax collectors were really tax contractors (sometimes called "tax farmers"). In the system of the Roman empire, everyone owed something to those above them. Client kings or rulers owed monies and supp...

@judidoerr Many of the disciples had wives and children. We know Peter had a wife, not only because he had a mother-in-law, but we also know this from Paul's writings. When Paul is defending his and B...

So GREAT: Jesus has the authority to heal AND forgive/release from sin. Jesus, I need Your healing. I need Your release. Thank you for Your mercy.

@sailing-bum Thanks, Mark!

@amberhocker My own view is that Jesus make the statement about release from sin and then after his question to the scribes he heals the man.

@paulmoore405 Paul, I want to be clear: The view that illness was caused by sin was a first-century view. It was part of the context of Jesus' world and the worldview of those living within it. I don'...

@travisbruno3 asked: So then, was it more normal to ask for healing (skipping over forgiveness) then? That's a good question. It's pretty clear in the Gospels that people did just ask for healing. ...

@travisbruno3 I think their expectations were that sickness was directly related to sin. Here are some insights on that from their culture.

@okiebull13 I don't know. I think it may be easy to judge the crowd. Remember that they, too, were likely there in large numbers for healing. In Mark 1 it says that everyone was bringing those who wer...

Forgiveness and Healing It may seem strange to us that Jesus' first response to the paralyzed man was to engage in forgiveness of sins, but, though Jesus' direct act of forgiveness is controversial to...

@amberhocker wrote: ...were the people of this time still living by Levitical law? Amber, The short answer is yes and no. 😉 The "yes" part of the answer is that all Jews who worshiped YHWH probably ...

Vickie and Nancy (@ndelpha and @vltaylor1136), Bill Parks (@8ill8ook) brought this question up the other day. Here's what I wrote to him: This is quite a textual dilemma for those scholars and transla...

@sailing-bum Brother, that is so good. All of it. It's amazing how hard we work at grace sometimes. lol

@shelley-johnson I think of it in several ways. One is that this is real history, full of all the consistencies and inconsistencies of someone telling the story, and we are fortunate to have four diff...

@travisbruno3 @jralphsmith Jesus was also interrupted during this experience of prayer. The pressing needs, desires, expectations of others pursued him into this deserted place (the Greek word for Pet...

@okiebull13 wrote: The commentary for versus 1:16-19 states that the disciples did not always answer Jesus’s calling the first time. Peter, James and John didn’t answer Jesus’s calling until the 3rd ...

Below is the account from all four Gospels of the calling of Peter and Andrew. Gospel of Mark “As he went along the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew, Simon’s brother, casting a net into ...

@travisbruno3 I love that perspective. I think of how some children cling to their parents on the first day of school. So hard for child and parent, but the parent has to force them (or, from the chil...

@mbbruno It does feel that way. It is a comfort to me that Jesus also knows what it feels like to be in this same wilderness of the present world. May I rely upon and trust the Spirit when I face tria...