Scriptures: Mark 8:31-9:1; Mat 16:21-28; Luke 9:23-27 Take Up Your Cross and Follow Jesus Mark 8:31-9:1 He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. 32 He spoke to them…
Scriptures: Luke 9:18-22; Mark 8:27-30; Mat 16:13-20 Peter Confesses Jesus as the Christ Matthew 16:13-20 Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?” 14 They said, “Some say John the Baptiser, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one…
Scriptures: Mark 8:11-26; Mat 16:1-12 The Leaven of the Pharisees and Herod Matthew 16:1-12 The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven. 2 But he answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ 3 In the morning,…
Scriptures: Mark 8:1-10; Mat 15:32-29 Jesus Feeds the Four Thousand Matthew 15:29-39 Jesus departed from there, and came near to the sea of Galilee; and he went up into the mountain, and sat there. 30 Great multitudes came to him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others, and they put them down at his…
Scriptures: Mark 7:24-37; Mat 15:21-31 The Faith of a Canaanite Woman Matthew 15:21-28 Jesus went out from there, and withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon. 22 Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders, and cried, saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David! My daughter is severely possessed by a…
Scriptures: Mark 7:1-23; Matthew 15:1-20 What Defiles a Person Mark 7:1-13 Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem. 2 Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found fault. 3 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews, don’t…
