Mark 1:35-2:12 – For that is what I came for

In Capernaum

• When if was still dark, Jesus got up (1:35).
  • Even though Jesus had a long day on Sabbath (teaching, casting out demons, healing)(1:21-34)
  • Jesus escaped the city, the crowds, to be alone with God the father
  • He knew a busy day is ahead of Him, He needed to draw energy from God
  • When do you wake up?
  • How much time you spend in prayers?
• Jesus’s quiet time was broken was Peter’s and friends (1:37)
  • Many came to look for Jesus because they heard what Jesus did the day before
  • Why do these people came to look for Jesus?
  • Jesus’s response: “Let us go somewhere else to preach…” (1:38)
  • Why did Jesus want to return back to Capernaum?
  • What is Jesus’s primary ministry? Teaching? Healing? Casting out demons? (1:38)

• Jesus went to synagogues in smaller towns and villages throughout all Galilee to preach, casting out the demons (1:39), and healing (Matt 4:23)
  • The Gospel is for everyone, regardless of where they stay, in cities or in villages
  • Large crowds followed Jesus, they came from Galilee, Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, beyond the Jordan (Matt 4:25)
• Healing of the leper (1:40-45)
  • Took place at the foot of the mountain where Jesus gave the sermon on the mount (Matt 8:1)
  • Why didn’t Mark record the sermon of the mount (Matt Ch5-Ch7)?
  • Healing and holiness
  • Jesus moved with compassion, touched the man (1:41). Our Lord is always willing to forgive our sins when we cry out to Him (1:41)
  • Law regarding dealing with leprosy – Lev Ch 13-14
    • Ch 13 – Identifying leprosy
    • Ch 14 – Cleaning leprosy
      • Two birds
        • What do these birds represent?
      • 2 + 1 lambs
        • What do these lambs represent?
        • blood on right ear, right thumb and right big toe (Lev14:34)
        • oil on right ear, right thumb and right big toe and on head(Lev14:35)
        • guilt offering (Lev 14:12) sin offering (Lev 14:19) burnt offering (Lev 14:20) grain offering (Lev 14:20)
  • Jesus told the man to obey the law to find a priest (1:44)
  • Jesus told the leper not to tell anyone, but the leper told everyone (1:44-45)
    • Jesus told us to tell anyone about Him, but we often keep Jesus to ourselves
• Because the disobedience cleansed leper, Jesus could no longer publicly enter any city, He stayed out in unpopulated areas, people still came to Him from everywhere (1:45)

Back to Capernaum

• Healing of the paralytic (2:1-12)
  • Took place at Peter’s or Jesus house (2:1)
  • The house was fulled with people (2:2)
  • Jesus was preaching (2:2)
  • holiness and healing
  • Compare the scribes with four men (2:6)
    • These four men had faith in Jesus
    • The scribes had doubt in Jesus (2:7) – none can forgive sins except God alone
      • They came with critical minds
      • The were jealous of the popularity of Jesus
      • Beginning of opposition that ultimately led to Jesus’s arrest and death
      • Jesus knew what was in their mind (2:8)
  • Jesus forgives sins, that shows His divinity – and He proved it by healing the man (2:11)
  • “Son of Man” emerges here (2:10)
    • Dan 7:13-14
    • Jesus used this title about eighty times in the Gospels
    • linked Jesus to other men
    • the Self-emptied One Who laid aside the powers and attributes of Divine Sonship, and limited Himself within humanity as a perfect servant for the doing of the work of God