READING 5

  1. Read the headings in Mark 3:1-19.

  2. Find Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, Tyre, and Sidon on the map.

  3. Read Mark 3:1-19.

  4. Consider the following questions.

Note what emotion Jesus expresses in 3:5.  When do you feel it is okay for you to be angry?


The story in 3:1-6 completes a series of stories that began in 2:1.
In 2:1-12, Jesus healed a man who was __________.
In 3:1-6, Jesus heals a man with a ___________ hand.
What was the response to the first healing? (2:12)
What was the response to the last healing? (3:6)
What has happened that has caused the difference?


Why were the crowds coming to Jesus? (3:7-10)  How do you think Jesus felt about these people and their motives?


Whom do the unclean spirits confess Jesus to be?  (3:11)  Why did Jesus "sternly order them not to make him known"?


For what three purposes did Jesus chose the 12 disciples?  (3:14-15)
1) to be ________________
2) to be ____________________________________________
3) to have ___________________________________________
Is there any significance to the order in which these three are listed?

Find the 12 disciples:
SIMON:PETER      JAMES      MATTHEW      JOHN      PHILIP
BARTHOLOMEW      THADDAEUS        ANDREW      THOMAS
JAMES:OF:ALPHAEUS      SIMON:PATRIOT      JUDAS:ISCARIOT

U : I Z U A T O I R A C S I : S A D U J
D S U E A H P L A : F O : S E M A J A S
C A T T O I R T A P : N O M I S T M D U
U E S I M O N : P E T E R C B X E O G E
P N K C D P W W V S G U N L Z S T E : A
H G U V S : E Q G A E H W E H T T A M D
I J S A V R X M N H O J A M E S D B W D
L E F B D R Z M J J F A P : W S P M J A
I L U N H Y I S Y Q T H O M A S E J G H
P M A W R P H I W E M O L O H T R A B T