Jesus let out a loud cry and breathed his last. Then the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. When the centurion, who was standing opposite him, saw the way he breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!” (Mark...

Then they all deserted him and ran away. (Mark 14:50 CSB) Jesus had prayed and asked the Father to remove the cup of suffering from him. He knew what was ahead, and he knew he would face his trial and the cross alone. The good news for us is that...

As he was going out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, look! What massive stones! What impressive buildings!” Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left upon another - all will be thrown down.” (Mark 13:1-2 CSB)...

And as for the dead being raised - haven’t you read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God said to him: ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of...

He was teaching them: “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 thieves!’” (Mark 11:17 CSB) The Temple was to be a place of worship and prayer, but the Jewish leaders were using...

Looking at him, Jesus loved him and said to him, “You lack one thing: Go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” But he was dismayed by this demand, and he went away grieving, because he...

He took a child, had him stand among them, and taking him in his arms, he said to them, “Whoever welcomes one little child such as this in my name welcomes me. And whoever welcomes  me, does not welcome me, but him who sent me.” (Mark 9:36-37 CSB) The disciples...

Then he began to teach them that it was necessary for the Son of Man to suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, be killed, and rise after three days. (Mark 8:31 CSB)  Peter had just declared Jesus to be the Christ – the...

For from within, out of people’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders, adulteries, greed, evil actions, deceit, self-indulgence, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness. All these evil things come from within and they defile a person. (Mark 7:21-23 CSB) Jesus tells the religious people of His day that they...

When he went ashore, he saw a large crowd and had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. Then he began to teach them many things. (Mark 6:34 CSB) Mark packs a lot into this chapter. Jesus is rejected by the home crowd; at other times,...