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Category: Mark 11

  • You Can’t Sit on the Fence

    (Mark 11:22-33) This is a classic lesson that Jesus taught the chief priests and scribes and which provides a warning to all of us. The Lord hates fence sitters. Here is a perfect example of the way he dealt with them. The chief priests and scribes came to Jesus asking by what authority was he…

  • Have Faith in God

    (Mark 11:20-26) The lesson of the fig tree was covered a few posts ago. We see an additional lesson here when the disciples note that the fig tree is withered and they point it out to Jesus. The disciple were amazed that the fig tree had withered after Jesus spoke to it. But Jesus’ response…

  • Driving Out the Merchants and Money Changers from the Temple

    (Mark 11:15-19) Jesus came to the temple in Jerusalem and saw the merchants and money changers carrying on their business. He made the point saying, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.” (Verse 17) And with…

  • The Barren Fig Tree

    (Mark 11:11-14) The teaching about the barren fig tree is an interesting one. Each time I look at it I find things that are more and more interesting in it. The first time I read this section of scripture I thought the Lord was being harsh and vindictive. He basically cursed the fig tree so…

  • Hosanna in the Highest

    (Mark 11:1-10) From the mouths of babes the Lord brought perfect praise. This is what Jesus said in another version of this section of scripture. As he rode on the colt of an ass (which was to fulfil prophecy) the people laid down leafy branches and and their garments when he rode to Jerusalem. Jesus…