TEXT — Mark 10: 1–16 — “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” Setting 1       And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again; and again, as his custom was, he taught them. Question of Divorce 2 And Pharisees came

TEXT — Mark 9: 38–48 — Tolerance Yet Radical Commitment A Mind Open to Others 38 John said to him, “Teacher, we saw a man casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him, because he was not following us.” 39 But Jesus said, “Do not forbid him; for no one who does a

TEXT — Mark 9: 30–37 — Second Prediction of Passion Second Prediction of Passion 30 They went on from there and passed through Galilee. And he would not have any one know it; 31 for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of man will be delivered into the hands of men,

PETER’S CONFESSION OF FAITH. PREDICTION OF PASSION A         TEXT (MARK 8: 27–35) Who Do Men Say I Am? 27 And Jesus went on with his disciples, to the villages of Caesare’a Philip’pi; and on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do men say that I am?” 28 And they told him, “John the Baptist;

  TEXT — Mark 7: 31-37 — Cure of a Deaf Mute   Setting: Outside Judeae 31 Then he returned from the region of Tyre, and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, through the region of the Decap’olis. Deaf Man with Speech Impediment 32 And they brought to him a man who was

TEXT — Mark 7: 1–8, 14–15, 21–23 — Laws Human and Divine Disciples with Unwashed Hands 1 Now when the Pharisees gathered together to him, with some of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem, 2 they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands defiled, that is, unwashed. 3 (For the Pharisees, and

TEXT: – John 06: 60–71        Reactions to the Bread of Life Discourse A Hard Saying 60 Many of his disciples, when they heard it, said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?” Jesus’ Response 61 But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at it, said to them, “Do you take

JOHN 6: 41–51   BREAD OF LIFE, Part II Ordinary Time, Sunday 19B A         TEXT Jews’ Objection 41 The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, “I AM the bread which came down from heaven.” 42 They said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he

TEXT: John 6: 51–59 — Bread of Life, Part III   Living Bread from Heaven 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh.” Dispute

JOHN 6: 22–40         BREAD OF LIFE, Part I Ordinary Time, Sunday 18B (John 6: 24–35)   A         TEXT New Setting 22 On the next day the people who remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his