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Mark 13

Mark 13

Jesus Foretells Destruction of the Temple

13:1 And as he came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Look, Teacher, what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!” And Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”

Signs of the End of the Age

And as he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign when all these things are about to be accomplished?” And Jesus began to say to them, “See that no one leads you astray. Many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he!’ and they will lead many astray. And when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. This must take place, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. These are but the beginning of the birth pains.

“But be on your guard. For they will deliver you over to councils, and you will be beaten in synagogues, and you will stand before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them. 10 And the gospel must first be proclaimed to all nations. 11 And when they bring you to trial and deliver you over, do not be anxious beforehand what you are to say, but say whatever is given you in that hour, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit. 12 And brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death. 13 And you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

The Abomination of Desolation

14 “But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where he ought not to be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 15 Let the one who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter his house, to take anything out, 16 and let the one who is in the field not turn back to take his cloak. 17 And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! 18 Pray that it may not happen in winter. 19 For in those days there will be such tribulation as has not been from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, and never will be. 20 And if the Lord had not cut short the days, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, whom he chose, he shortened the days. 21 And then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘Look, there he is!’ do not believe it. 22 For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, the elect. 23 But be on guard; I have told you all things beforehand.

The Coming of the Son of Man

24 “But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, 25 and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. 26 And then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. 27 And then he will send out the angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.

The Lesson of the Fig Tree

28 “From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near. 29 So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that he is near, at the very gates. 30 Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place. 31 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

No One Knows That Day or Hour

32 “But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 33 Be on guard, keep awake.1 For you do not know when the time will come. 34 It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants2 in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to stay awake. 35 Therefore stay awake—for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows,3 or in the morning—36 lest he come suddenly and find you asleep. 37 And what I say to you I say to all: Stay awake.”

Footnotes

[1] 13:33 Some manuscripts add and pray

[2] 13:34 Or bondservants

[3] 13:35 That is, the third watch of the night, between midnight and 3 a.m.

(ESV)

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Mark 12

Mark 12

The Parable of the Tenants

12:1 And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country. When the season came, he sent a servant1 to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. And they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed. Again he sent to them another servant, and they struck him on the head and treated him shamefully. And he sent another, and him they killed. And so with many others: some they beat, and some they killed. He had still one other, a beloved son. Finally he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ And they took him and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard. What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants and give the vineyard to others. 10 Have you not read this Scripture:


  “‘The stone that the builders rejected
    has become the cornerstone;2
11   this was the Lord’s doing,
    and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”

12 And they were seeking to arrest him but feared the people, for they perceived that he had told the parable against them. So they left him and went away.

Paying Taxes to Caesar

13 And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and some of the Herodians, to trap him in his talk. 14 And they came and said to him, “Teacher, we know that you are true and do not care about anyone’s opinion. For you are not swayed by appearances,3 but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? Should we pay them, or should we not?” 15 But, knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, “Why put me to the test? Bring me a denarius4 and let me look at it.” 16 And they brought one. And he said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?” They said to him, “Caesar’s.” 17 Jesus said to them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” And they marveled at him.

The Sadducees Ask About the Resurrection

18 And Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection. And they asked him a question, saying, 19 “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man5 must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. 20 There were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and when he died left no offspring. 21 And the second took her, and died, leaving no offspring. And the third likewise. 22 And the seven left no offspring. Last of all the woman also died. 23 In the resurrection, when they rise again, whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife.”

24 Jesus said to them, “Is this not the reason you are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God? 25 For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. 26 And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? 27 He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are quite wrong.”

The Great Commandment

28 And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” 29 Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” 32 And the scribe said to him, “You are right, Teacher. You have truly said that he is one, and there is no other besides him. 33 And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.” 34 And when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And after that no one dared to ask him any more questions.

Whose Son Is the Christ?

35 And as Jesus taught in the temple, he said, “How can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David? 36 David himself, in the Holy Spirit, declared,


  “‘The Lord said to my Lord,
  “Sit at my right hand,
    until I put your enemies under your feet.”’

37 David himself calls him Lord. So how is he his son?” And the great throng heard him gladly.

Beware of the Scribes

38 And in his teaching he said, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes and like greetings in the marketplaces 39 and have the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts, 40 who devour widows’ houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”

The Widow’s Offering

41 And he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box. Many rich people put in large sums. 42 And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which make a penny.6 43 And he called his disciples to him and said to them, “Truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box. 44 For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.”

Footnotes

[1] 12:2 Or bondservant; also verse 4

[2] 12:10 Greek the head of the corner

[3] 12:14 Greek you do not look at people’s faces

[4] 12:15 A denarius was a day’s wage for a laborer

[5] 12:19 Greek his brother

[6] 12:42 Greek two lepta, which make a kodrantes; a kodrantes (Latin quadrans) was a Roman copper coin worth about 1/64 of a denarius (which was a day’s wage for a laborer)

(ESV)

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Saturday Study

Mark 7-11 (12.21.19)

Read again Mark 11:1-11.

As Jesus enters the city, He is essentially saying, “I am a King, but I am not a King that fits into the world’s categories.”

There is something we see in the Scriptures that takes this to another level for us. A famous sermon given by the famous 17th-century pastor and theologian Jonathan Edwards, called “The Excellency of Christ,” highlights Revelation 5:5-6, where John is told, “Behold, the Lion of Judah,” but what he sees is a “slain lamb.”

Edwards takes us into this passage with, “The lion excels in strength, and in the majesty of his appearance and voice:

the lamb excels in meekness and patience, besides the excellent nature of the creature as good for food, and yielding that which is fit for our clothing and being suitable to be offered in sacrifice to God. But we see that Christ is in the text compared to both, because the diverse excellencies of both [Lion and Lamb] wonderfully meet in him.”

Jesus fulfills this combination of diverse excellencies that should be utterly incompatible. Jesus is both a victorious Lion and a sacrificial Lamb; infinite highness and infinite accessibility; infinite justice and infinite grace; infinite glory and yet infinite humility; infinite majesty and infinite meekness.

He wears the crown of gold and the crown of thorns. He truly is the two-crowned King!

We’ll come back to this.

Mark 11:12-14 On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry. And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. And he said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard it.

At first glance, this sounds bad. One could even say Jesus seems to come off as kind of a jerk in how He interacts with the tree. The tree did nothing wrong. It wasn’t fruit season yet. Right? What is this then, if it’s not Jesus having a tantrum, like a baby who is hungry and can’t get something to eat? Surely there is more to this interaction. We have to see how Jesus is teaching His audience and us.

Jesus is not getting in the face of the fig tree; He is getting in the face of you and me. More specifically, He is confronting the religiosity of the people and declaring His impending judgment on them.

From a distance, the fig tree looks as if it has fruit (I’ll explain in a moment), just as Israel had divine favor with God and a devotion to religious practices. But, as you get close to the tree, you can see it has no fruit, just as Israel was spiritually bare.

Let me explain.

Why would Jesus approach the fig tree looking for food if He knew it was not fig season as Mark clarifies? It’s because a fig tree produces two kinds of fruit in different seasons. As the leaves come in, it grows little edible nubs. If it doesn’t, that tree is diseased. Jesus sees the leaves and approaches to eat the nubs but finds none on it.

See, Jesus is revealing the tree’s deception. When we see this happen just before He enters the temple, He is giving us a parable of religiosity at work. Just like the Judiazers in that day, we, too, can look as if we have it all together by our outer appearance and self-righteous deeds. But in the end, the disease of sin is still at work, and no real, spiritual fruit is produced out of us.

In this, Jesus is showing us the failure of religion, of works-based salvation. We cannot rid ourselves of sin by our own works. We cannot produce spiritual fruit without Jesus working within and through us.

Make this personal for you. Many “Christians” are really just religious worker bees. Are you just really busy with religious activity?

This is the Mary-and-Martha comparison. Are you so busy trying to earn a chance to enjoy Jesus that you are missing the fact that He is sitting in your living room longing to spend time with you?

He is trying to tell you that He has done the work for you, and the only kind of service, or work, that glorifies God, and is truly enjoyable, is the kind that happens out of the overflow of Christ in you.

Every other religion says, “You are saved, or connected to God, because of your moral striving.” If this is true, then this picture of coexisting “power and weakness” will never be a reality, because religion says, “Only results and power win. Weakness fails.”

See the failure of religion:

  1. If you are living up to standards, you will be overly cocky and confident.
  2. When you see others struggling, you will be judgmental and rude as you say, “Suck it up.”
  3. And when you are failing to meet the standard, you will be sad and depressed.

How is this good news?

But, what if you are radically loved because of what Jesus has done in spite of your flaws? What if your relationship to God is dependent not on your record but Jesus’ record? Not on your life but His life? This is exactly what He came to do for us!

Read with me:

Mark 11:15-19 And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. And he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple. And he was teaching them and saying to 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 robbers.” And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and were seeking a way to destroy him, for they feared him, because all the crowd was astonished at his teaching. And when evening came they went out of the city.

Verse 15 says, “… He entered the temple …”. When you look at a map of the Temple, the area you first walk into is like an outer ring called “The Court of the Gentiles” aka “The Court of the Nations.”

This is the only place the Gentiles could go. It was also the only place the venders could set up. It was a huge market with sellers of all the things people needed for the Passover and other activities—things like wine, oil, salt, and approved sacrificial animals. One Passover week would see the sale of 255,000 lambs.

Also, there were three kinds of money that circulated in this time:

Imperial money, Roman; provincial money, Greek; and local money, Jewish.

The “Money Changers” would then exchange, for a fee, the other money for the required coinage for the annual half-shekel temple tax.

Today, this might look like our modern Wall Street trading floor or the merchant areas, just on the other side of the Mexican border, in Tijuana.

Jesus gets all Randy “Macho Man” Savage on the crowd and starts flipping tables and kicking people out. But quickly, He uses the moment to teach. In verse 17, He says this is to be “a house of prayer for all the nations.”

Now what’s funny is, to the people watching this, this statement was more outrageous than His flipping tables. Because the belief was the Messiah would show up and purge the foreigners so the Jews could be free from them and their rule. But here is Jesus advocating for the Gentiles saying it is to be their house of prayer, too.

For Jesus to want foreigners to participate in the temple in prayer is shocking for the people, because they know the history of the Temple. It is not shocking to us, because we don’t fully grasp how serious the temple practices were.

Jesus puts on display humility as He enters on the back of a donkey. Then He puts on display His authority and power, as He turns tables in the temple.

Both of these are radical sights—the supposed Messiah riding in on a donkey; the supposed Messiah saying His Holy Temple is for people in all nations and not just Jews.

He is pressing His audience, and He is pressing us as we study this. He is saying, “Crown me. Or kill me!”

I ask you today, is Jesus your sacrificial King or is He a religious slave driver? One leads to new life and setting down your deadly doing and idolatry. The other leads to weighty rules and spiteful judgment that never gives life but instead withers like the fig tree.

For some, this will be good news, and in Christ they will be saved. For others, they will reject it and attempt to make their own salvation but will perish.

Hear me today: If you go to Him like a lamb, He will defend you like a Lion, and the gates of hell will not overcome you. Your former lack of satisfaction will finally be quenched in the glory and love of God almighty.

Jesus is the sacrificial Lamb who defeated death like a mighty Lion. He is our great two-crowned King!

By His grace and for His glory,

Pastor Joshua Kirstine

Disciples Church

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Mark 11

Mark 11

Mark 11:1 Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciplesMark 11:2 and said to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it.Mark 11:3 If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord has need of it and will send it back here immediately.’”Mark 11:4 And they went away and found a colt tied at a door outside in the street, and they untied it.Mark 11:5 And some of those standing there said to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?”Mark 11:6 And they told them what Jesus had said, and they let them go.Mark 11:7 And they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks on it, and he sat on it.Mark 11:8 And many spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut from the fields.Mark 11:9 And those who went before and those who followed were shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!Mark 11:10 Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest!”

Mark 11:11 And he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple. And when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.

Mark 11:12 On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry.Mark 11:13 And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.Mark 11:14 And he said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard it.

Mark 11:15 And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons.Mark 11:16 And he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple.Mark 11:17 And he was teaching them and saying to 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 robbers.”Mark 11:18 And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and were seeking a way to destroy him, for they feared him, because all the crowd was astonished at his teaching.Mark 11:19 And when evening came they went out of the city.

Mark 11:20 As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away to its roots.Mark 11:21 And Peter remembered and said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered.”Mark 11:22 And Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God.Mark 11:23 Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.Mark 11:24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.Mark 11:25 And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”Mark 11:26 —

Mark 11:27 And they came again to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to him,Mark 11:28 and they said to him, “By what authority are you doing these things, or who gave you this authority to do them?”Mark 11:29 Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one question; answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.Mark 11:30 Was the baptism of John from heaven or from man? Answer me.”Mark 11:31 And they discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’Mark 11:32 But shall we say, ‘From man’?”— they were afraid of the people, for they all held that John really was a prophet.Mark 11:33 So they answered Jesus, “We do not know.” And Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”

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Mark 10

Mark 10

Mark 10:1 And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them.

Mark 10:2 And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”Mark 10:3 He answered them, “What did Moses command you?”Mark 10:4 They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.”Mark 10:5 And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.Mark 10:6 But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’Mark 10:7 ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,Mark 10:8 and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.Mark 10:9 What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Mark 10:10 And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter.Mark 10:11 And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her,Mark 10:12 and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

Mark 10:13 And they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples rebuked them.Mark 10:14 But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.Mark 10:15 Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”Mark 10:16 And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands on them.

Mark 10:17 And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”Mark 10:18 And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.Mark 10:19 You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’”Mark 10:20 And he said to him, “Teacher, all these I have kept from my youth.”Mark 10:21 And Jesus, looking at him, 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; and come, follow me.”Mark 10:22 Disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.

Mark 10:23 And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How difficult it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!”Mark 10:24 And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how difficult it is to enter the kingdom of God!Mark 10:25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”Mark 10:26 And they were exceedingly astonished, and said to him, “Then who can be saved?”Mark 10:27 Jesus looked at them and said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”Mark 10:28 Peter began to say to him, “See, we have left everything and followed you.”Mark 10:29 Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel,Mark 10:30 who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.Mark 10:31 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”

Mark 10:32 And they were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them. And they were amazed, and those who followed were afraid. And taking the twelve again, he began to tell them what was to happen to him,Mark 10:33 saying, “See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles.Mark 10:34 And they will mock him and spit on him, and flog him and kill him. And after three days he will rise.”

Mark 10:35 And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came up to him and said to him, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.”Mark 10:36 And he said to them, “What do you want me to do for you?”Mark 10:37 And they said to him, “Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your glory.”Mark 10:38 Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?”Mark 10:39 And they said to him, “We are able.” And Jesus said to them, “The cup that I drink you will drink, and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized,Mark 10:40 but to sit at my right hand or at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared.”Mark 10:41 And when the ten heard it, they began to be indignant at James and John.Mark 10:42 And Jesus called them to him and said to them, “You know that those who are considered rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.Mark 10:43 But it shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant,Mark 10:44 and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all.Mark 10:45 For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Mark 10:46 And they came to Jericho. And as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the roadside.Mark 10:47 And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”Mark 10:48 And many rebuked him, telling him to be silent. But he cried out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”Mark 10:49 And Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.” And they called the blind man, saying to him, “Take heart. Get up; he is calling you.”Mark 10:50 And throwing off his cloak, he sprang up and came to Jesus.Mark 10:51 And Jesus said to him, “What do you want me to do for you?” And the blind man said to him, “Rabbi, let me recover my sight.”Mark 10:52 And Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your faith has made you well.” And immediately he recovered his sight and followed him on the way.