The Gospel according to Mark

The gospel according to Mark was written by Mark who was a young companion of Paul, Barnabas and Peter and he wrote it about 65 ad. This is an action-filled writing; the shortest of the four gospel records.   

Each time I read through one of the gospels, I see a different theme or something new about Jesus stands out to me.  This time in Mark’s account I encounter Jesus as the great healer…

 

“It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.  I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”~ Jesus

In the gospel of Mark, Jesus heals:

A man with an evil spirit in the synagogue at Capernaum

Simon’s mother-in-law with a fever

The sick and demon possessed and many who had various diseases of Simon’s town

Throughout Galilee Jesus drove out demons

A man with leprosy in Galilee

A paralytic through a roof in Capernaum

A man with a shriveled hand in the synagogue

Many from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, and the regions across the Jordan around Tyre and Sidon came to Jesus to be healed or have their demons cast out

In Gerasenes the strong man who lived among the tombs who was tortured by the demon named Legion was dressed and in his right mind when Jesus cast the demon into a herd of pigs.

The woman in a crowd who Jesus freed from her suffering of 12 years of bleeding

Jairus’ 12 year old daughter raised from the dead …Jesus said, “Talitha kuom!”  Little girl get up!

Jesus extends his healing power when he gives authority to his 12 to anoint many sick people with oil and heal them and to drive out many demons.

In Bethsaida and throughout that region the sick on mats and in the marketplaces; all who touched Jesus…

A little daughter of a Greek woman in Tyre healed of an evil spirit

A deaf-mute man of the Decapolis.

A blind man of Bethsaida

After the transfiguration, Jesus healed a man’s son (robbed of speech) and possessed by a spirit…this kind can come out only by prayer.

Bartimaeus (son of Timaeus), a blind man on the road outside of Jericho

Mary Magdalene- 7 demons driven out

And at the very end of Mark’s gospel, he records Jesus saying, “Go into all the world and preach the good news…and in my name they will be able to drive out demons… and they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.”   

The Gospel of Mark
author: Mark
28 pages in large leather-bond Bible