Mark 3:1-6
Jesus Healing of The Man With The Witherd Hand
Mark 3:7-12
Crowds Come to See Jesus Performing Miracles
Mark 3:13-19
Jesus Delegates Responsibilities to His Disciples
Mark 3:20-30
Jesus Faces Opposition From Both Friend And Foe
Mark 3:31-35
Jesus’ Family Come to Take Him Home
Mark 4:1-9
Jesus Teaches on Sowing Seed in 4 Types of Soil
Mark 4:10-20
Jesus Explained The Parable of The Sower
Mark 4:21-29
Jesus Teaches in Parables
Mark 4:30-41
The Parable of The Mustard Seed
Mark 5:1-10
The Demon Possessed Man at Gerasa
Mark 5:11-20
Two Thousand Hogs Drown
Mark 5:21-34
Hemorrhaging Woman Healed
Mark 5:35-43
Jesus Heals Jairus Daughter
Mark 6:1-6
Jesus Returns to His Home Town of Nazareth
Mark 6:7-13
Jesus Sends His Disciples as Missionaries
Mark 6:14-29
Mark Tells About The Death of John The Baptist
Mark 6:30-44
Feeding of The 5000
Mark 6:45-52
Storm on The Sea of Galilee
Mark 6:53-56
Crowd Wanting to be Healed
Mark 7:1-13
Conflict With The Religious Leaders Over Laws
Mark 7:14-23
Jesus Attacks a System of Rules And Regulations
Mark 7:24-30
Jesus Casts a Demon Out of a Gentile Daughter
Mark 7:31-37
Jesus Heals a Deaf Man With a Speech Impediment
Mark 8:1-9
Jesus Feeds 4000 With 7 Baskets Leftover
Mark 8:10-21
The Pharisees Ask Jesus For a Sign From Heaven
Mark 8:22-30
Jesus Heals a Blind Man Gradually
Mark 8:31-38
Jesus Warns His Disciples That He is Going to Die
Mark 9:1-8
Jesus Takes 3 of His Disciples To a High Mountain
Mark 9:9-13
Three Disciples Question About The Transfiguration
Mark 9:14-29
The Disciples Are Helpless And Ineffective
Crowd Wanting to be Healed
Mark 6:53–56
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We find Jesus arriving back on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee not very far from Capernaum in the plain of Gennesaret (v. 53). This was one of the most fertile areas in all Palestine. No sooner had He landed than He was surrounded by a crowd of people (v. 54). Many of them came to be healed and were trying to just touch the hem of His garment (vv. 55-56). This was a blue banded fringe which the Law required every male Jew to have on his outer garments (Num. 15:38) that distinguished the Jews from the Gentiles.
There were very few in the crowd who had not come to get something from Jesus. In our selfishness it is only human nature to come to Jesus to get things from Him, but it is shameful to always be asking and never giving anything to Him. They simply wanted to use people and the same is true in their relationship with God. They never remember him unless they need him. Their only prayers are requests, or even demands, made of God. There are also those who simply make use of the church. They desire the church to baptize their children, marry their young people and bury their dead. They are seldom to be seen there unless they wish some service. It is their unconscious attitude that the church exists to serve them, but that they have no duty whatever towards it. If we examine ourselves, we are all, to some extent, guilty of this same selfish attitude.
Application
In my prayer time I need to be thanking the Lord for all He has done for me and not in my own selfish way asking Him for anything during this time.
Mark 6:53-56 (English Standard Version)
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