Mark (Expository Thoughts on the Gospels)
Published on 15. April 1993
272 pages
978-1-4335-3228-3 (ISBN)
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For hundreds of years Christendom has been blessed with Bible commentaries written by great men of God highly respected for their godly walk and their insight into spiritual truth. The Crossway Classic Commentaries present the very best work on individual Bible books, carefully adapted for maximum understanding and usefulness for today's believers.
Mark is a dynamic discussion of the second Gospel. Here is all the excitement and fervor of this action-packed biography of our precious Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Familiar and not-so-familiar passages bring deep encouragement and powerful vision, leading to inner renewal and holier living.
A potent volume sure to enlighten and strengthen all modern-day believers as they seek to serve their Master!
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J. C. Ryle (1816-1900) was a prominent writer, preacher, and Anglican clergyman in nineteenth-century England. He is the author of the classic Expository Thoughts on the Gospels and retired as the bishop of Liverpool.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Content
- Series Preface
- Introduction
- Preface
- Chapter 1
- The Gospel begun: John the Baptist's ministry (1:1-8)
- Christ's baptism, temptation and calling of his first disciples (1:9-20)
- An evil spirit cast out
- Peter's mother-in-law healed (1:21-34)
- Christ's private prayers
- the purpose of Christ's coming (1:35-39)
- A man with leprosy cleansed (1:40-45)
- Chapter 2
- Privileges of Capernaum
- a paralytic healed (2:1-12)
- The calling of Levi
- Christ the physician
- new wine (2:13-22)
- The right view of the Sabbath day (2:23-28)
- Chapter 3
- The man with a shriveled hand
- Christ watched by his enemies and distressed (3:1-12)
- The appointing of the twelve apostles
- Christ's zeal misunderstood by his friends (3:13-21)
- Warning against divisions
- forgiveness
- damnation 3:22-30)
- Christ's brother and sister and mother (3:31-35)
- Chapter 4
- The parable of the sower (4:1-20)
- A lamp on a stand
- the importance of hearing (4:21-25)
- The parable of the growing seed (4:26-29)
- The parable of the mustard seed (4:30-34)
- The storm on the Sea of Galilee miraculously calmed (4:35-41)
- Chapter 5
- Demons cast out in the region of the Gerasenes (5:1-17)
- The man who had been possessed by demons sent home to his friends (5:18-20)
- A woman's bleeding healed (5:21-34)
- The ruler's daughter raised to life (5:35-43)
- Chapter 6
- Christ in his own town
- the sin of unbelief (6:1-6)
- The first sending out of the apostles to preach (6:7-13)
- John the Baptist put to death by Herod (6:14-29)
- The apostles' return
- the importance of rest
- Christ's compassion (6:30-34)
- The crowd fed with five loaves and two fishes (6:35-46)
- Christ walking on the water (6:47-56)
- Chapter 7
- The religion of the Pharisees (7:1-13)
- The heart as the true source of impurity (7:14-23)
- The Syro-Phoenician woman whose daughter had an evil spirit (7:24-30)
- The healing of a deaf and mute man (7:31-37)
- Chapter 8
- The crowd fed with seven loaves
- the unbelief of the Pharisees (8:1-13)
- Warning against false doctrine
- the disciples' slowness (8:14-21)
- The blind man at Bethsaida healed (8:22-26)
- Peter's confession of faith
- his ignorance of the need for Christ to die (8:27-33)
- The necessity of self-denial
- the value of the soul
- the danger of being ashamed of Christ (8:34-38)
- Chapter 9
- Christ's transfiguration (9:1-13)
- The boy with an evil spirit healed (9:14-29)
- The crucifixion predicted
- humility commanded (9:30-37)
- A tolerant spirit
- self-sacrifice
- the necessity of hell (9:38-50)
- Chapter 10
- The right view of marriage expounded (10:1-12)
- Young children brought to Christ
- infant baptism (10:13-16)
- The rich young man
- Christ's love to sinners
- the peril of being rich (10:17-27)
- Leaving all for Christ
- Christ's foreknowledge of his sufferings (10:28-34)
- The ignorance of Zebedee's sons
- Christ's example of humble devotion (10:35-45)
- Blind Bartimaeus healed (10:46-52)
- Chapter 11
- Christ's entry into Jerusalem, and his poverty (11:1-11)
- Christ's humanity
- the fig-tree cursed
- the temple cleansed (11:12-21)
- The importance of faith
- the need to forgive (11:22-26)
- The spiritual blindness of the chief priests and teachers of the law
- mental dishonesty in prejudiced believers (11:27-33)
- Chapter 12
- The parable of the tenants (12:1-12)
- The tax, and the claims of Caesar and of God (12:13-17)
- The Sadducees, and the doctrine of the resurrection (12:18-27)
- The teachers of the law, and the greatest commandment (12:28-34)
- Christ in the Psalms
- a warning against hypocrisy
- the widow's offering (12:35-44)
- Chapter 13
- The beginning of the prophecy on the Mount of Olives (13:1-8)
- What Christ's people must expect between his first and second advents (13:9-13)
- Providing for our own safety
- privileges of the elect (13:14-23)
- Christ's second coming described
- the importance of observing the signs of the time (13:24-31)
- The uncertainty of the time of Christ's second coming
- the duty to keep awake (13:32-37)
- Chapter 14
- The chief priests' plots
- the anointing at Bethany (14:1-9)
- Judas agrees to betray Christ
- the time of the crucifixion (14:10-16)
- The institution of the Lord's Supper (14:17-25)
- Christ's foreknowledge of his disciples' weakness
- the self-ignorance of believers (14:26-31)
- The agony in the garden
- the apostles' weakness (14:32-42)
- Christ taken prisoner by his enemies (14:43-52)
- Christ condemned before the high priest (14:53-65)
- Peter disowns Christ three times (14:66-72)
- Chapter 15
- Christ condemned before Pilate (15:1-15)
- Christ mocked and crucified (15:16-32)
- Christ's death, and the signs accompanying it (15:33-38)
- Christ's burial (15:39-47)
- Chapter 16
- The power of love for Christ
- the stone rolled away
- mercy to backsliders (16:1-8)
- Proofs of the resurrection
- kindness to great sinners
- the weakness of believers (16:9-14)
- The apostles' commission
- the terms of the Gospel
- the promise to faithful laborers (16:15-18)
- Christ's ascension
- the word of preachers confirmed by signs (16:19-20)
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