Text: Mark 10:2-16 Revised Standard Version (RSV) 2 And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” 3 He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” 4 They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce, and to […]

Text: Mark 9:30-37 Revised Standard Version (RSV) Jesus Again Foretells His Death and Resurrection 30 They went on from there and passed through Galilee. And he would not have any one know it; 31 for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of man will be delivered into the […]

Text: Mark 8:27-38 Revised Standard Version (RSV) Peter’s Declaration about Jesus 27 And Jesus went on with his disciples, to the villages of Caesare′a Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do men say that I am?” 28 And they told him, “John the Baptist; and others say, Eli′jah; […]

Text:  Mark 10:13-16 The Message (MSG) 13-16 The people brought children to Jesus, hoping he might touch them. The disciples shooed them off. But Jesus was irate and let them know it: “Don’t push these children away. Don’t ever get between them and me. These children are at the very center […]

Text:  Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 Revised Standard Version (RSV) 7 Now when the Pharisees gathered together to him, with some of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem, 2 they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands defiled, that is, unwashed. 3 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not […]