The Gospels · New Testament
Mark
Mark is book 41 of 66 and belongs to the Gospels in the New Testament. It has 16 chapters, each with source-checked General, Historical and Literary context. 50 people are indexed in its passages.
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Chapters
- Mark 1: Mark 1: the beginning of the gospel, from Jordan to Capernaum
Mark opens by calling his book the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and quotes written prophecy about a messenger and a voice… - Mark 2: Mark 2: a roof opened, a tax office left, and questions about sabbath
Back in Capernaum a crowd fills the house and blocks the door. Four men carry a man sick of the palsy, uncover the roof, break it up and let the bed… - Mark 3: Mark 3: a withered hand, the twelve named, and a house divided
In the synagogue a man has a withered hand and watchers wait to see whether Jesus will heal on the sabbath so they can accuse him. He asks whether it… - Mark 4: Mark 4: parables from a ship and a calm on the water
A great multitude gathers at the sea side, so Jesus teaches from a ship while the people stand on land. He tells of a sower whose seed falls by the… - Mark 5: Mark 5: the man among the tombs, a woman healed, and Talitha cumi
On the other side, in the country of the Gadarenes, a man with an unclean spirit meets Jesus out of the tombs. The narrator says no chains held him… - Mark 6: Mark 6: rejected at home, John beheaded, and bread in a desert place
In his own country the sabbath synagogue hearers are astonished and then offended, asking whether this is not the carpenter, the son of Mary, and… - Mark 7: Mark 7: tradition, what defiles, and Ephphatha
Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem see some disciples eat with unwashen hands and find fault. The narrator pauses to explain the practice of… - Mark 8: Mark 8: four thousand fed, Peter’s answer, and the cross named
A great multitude has been with Jesus three days without food. From seven loaves and a few small fishes about four thousand eat and are filled, and… - Mark 9: Mark 9: the mountain, a father’s cry, and sayings about greatness
Jesus says some standing there will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God come with power. After six days he takes Peter, James and John… - Mark 10: Greatness on the road to Jerusalem
Jesus answers a test about divorce by speaking of the marriage bond, then welcomes children after the disciples rebuke those who bring them. An… - Mark 11: Mark 11: a colt, a fig tree, and the tables overthrown
Near Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany by the mount of Olives, Jesus sends two disciples for a colt on which no man has sat, telling them what to… - Mark 12: Mark 12: the vineyard, three questions, and a widow’s two mites
Jesus tells of a man who planted a vineyard, let it to husbandmen and went away. Servants sent for fruit are beaten, wounded in the head and killed… - Mark 13: Mark 13: stones thrown down and a charge to watch
Leaving the temple, a disciple remarks on the stones and buildings, and Jesus says not one stone will be left on another. Sitting on the mount of… - Mark 14: Mark 14: anointing, supper, Gethsemane, arrest and denial
Two days before the passover the chief priests and scribes look for a way to take him by craft, though not on the feast day. At Bethany, in the house… - Mark 15: Mark 15: Pilate, Golgotha, and the veil rent in twain
In the morning the council binds Jesus and delivers him to Pilate. Asked whether he is the King of the Jews he says only that Pilate says it, and… - Mark 16: Mark 16: the empty sepulchre and the sending out
When the sabbath is past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome buy sweet spices to anoint him. Very early on the first day of the…
