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Ever since Adam and Eve’s children, humanity has shown cruelty toward one another. There’s even an expression: man’s inhumanity to man. But today, we’re going deeper—into man’s inhumanity to God.

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Mark 15:16 – 21 Soldiers mock Jesus and lead Him to be crucified

Probers 14:9 Fools mock at sin

Galatians 6:7 – 10 God is not mocked

Pontius Pilate faced a moral crossroads when choosing between justice and public pressure. As Jesus stands silent before His accusers, we witness the ultimate example of strength, humility, and divine love.

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Mark 15:1 Religious leaders bind Jesus and deliver Him to Pilate (The Roman Governor)

Mark 15:2 – 5 Pilate questions Jesus

Mark 15:6 – 11 Pilate tries to release Jesus. The crowd instead wants a murder released. (the son of the father rather than (The Son of God the Father)

Mark 15:12 – 14 The crowd influenced by the Chief Priests, want Jesus crucified

Mark 15:15 To satisfy the crowd Pilate has Jesus scrouged and authorized His crucifixion

While Jesus stands firm in truth, Peter falters under pressure, denying his Lord three times.

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Mark 14:66 – 70 Three times people accuse Peter of being with Jesus. The first two times he denies it and moves away from the accuser

Mark 14:71 The third response to the accuser was to curse and swear

Mark 14:72 After the third denial Peter hears the cock crow the second time and weeps

What would you do if silence could grant your deepest prayer? Jesus's has been arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane and the profound choice to speak the truth, even when silence could have spared Him suffering.

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Mark 14:43 – 45 Judas betrays Jesus

Mark 14:46 – 50 Jesus arrested; someone tries to stop the arrest, but Jesus intervenes, then Hiss disciples fled

Mark 14:51 & 52 A young man wearing only a linen sheet flees naked

Mark 14:53 Jesus taken to the High Priest and Council

Mark 14:54 Peter follows at a distance

Mark 14:55 – 60 During the first trial only false and inconsistent testimony is given

Mark 61 & 62 Jesus thus far remains silent and if He remained so He would have to be released. So Chief Priest asks Jesus why He does not respond and if He is the Christ. Jesus responds “I am”

Mark 14:63 – 66 High Priest acts as if he is mourning. The Council condemns Jesus as worthy of death due to blasphemy and begin to mistreat Him

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Mark 14:27 & 28 Jesus tells disciples they will be scattered according to the Scriptures, but He will meet them in Galilee after He has risen

Mark 14:29 Peter confident he will not fall away

Mark 14:30 Jesus tells him that he will deny Him 3 times before the cock crows twice

Mark 14:31 Peter and the others disciples insist they would die before betray Him

Mark 14:32 – 36 Jesus and the disciples go to a garden called Gethsemane to pray. Jesus takes 3 of them with Him farther and He goes even farther to pray

Mark 14:37 – 42 Jesus prays to avoid what is going to happen 3 times, asks the disciples 3 times to watch and pray, but they continue to sleep

The significance of the Lord’s Supper initiated by Jesus during the Holy Day of Passover. We will see the betrayal of Judas, the symbolism of bread and wine, and Jesus as the Passover Lamb and the covenant of grace.

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Mark 14:10 & 11 Judas makes a deal to betray Jesus

Mark 14:12 – 16 Preparation for the Passover meal

Mark 14:17 – 21 Jesus reveals He will be betrayed by one of them

Mark 14:22 - 26 Jesus initiates Communion/Lord’s Supper

Acts of worship by the woman with the alabaster jar, the poor widow, King David, and ultimately Jesus Christ.

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Mark 14:1 & 2 2 days before Passover and Unleavened Bread the religious leaders were looking for a way to kill Jesus before the Holy Days

Mark 14:3 – 9 A woman during the meal poured on Jesus expensive perfume and was criticized for it, but Jesus told them to leave her alone, what she did was good and to be remembered

2 Samuel 24:18– 25 David would not make an offering to God that cost him nothing

Hebrews 9:11 – 14 Jesus offered Himself to God for us

Jesus' teaches about the destruction of the temple and His return.

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Mark 13:1 & 2 Disciples impressed by the Temple area, but Jesus tells them it will be destroyed

Mark 13:3 & 4 Peter, James & John ask privately when these things will be and what will be the signs of fulfillment

Mark 13:5 – 13 Beginning signs

Mark 13:14 The sign of the “Abomination of Desolation”

Mark 13:15 – 20 What to do and how seriously to take that sign

Mark 13:21 – 23 Do not believe false Christs because Jesus has already told us

Mark 13:24 – 27 The coming of the “Son of Man”

Mark 13:28 – 32 Parable of the Fig Tree

Mark 13:33 – 37 Be on the alert

Jesus responds to an earnest question from a scribe about the greatest commandment. With 613 commandments to choose from, Jesus teaches that the important commandment is to love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and loving our neighbors as ourselves.

Mark 12:28 A scribe asks Jesus which commandment is the greatest (foremost)

Mark 12:29 – 31 Jesus answers the question

Mark 12:32 & 33 The scribe agrees

Mark 12:34 Jesus tells the scribe he is not far from the kingdom of God – the questions stopped

Mark 12:35 – 37 Jesus asks “how can the Christ be the son of David, when David calls him “My Lord”

Mark 12:38 – 40 Jesus warns of the hypocrisy of the religious leaders

Mark 12:41 – 44 Jesus says a widow contributed a cent and He says that contribution was greater than the rest combined

Jesus addresses the topics of taxes and life after death. Jesus skillfully navigates the trap set by the Pharisees and Herodians and teaches about our obligations to both earthly authorities and God.

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Mark 12:13 – 17 Seeking to trap Jesus the Pharisees and Herodians ask Him a question about taxes and Jesus’ amazing response

Mark 12:18 – 23 Sadducees question Jesus about the resurrection

Mark 12:24 – 27 Jesus’ answer is that God is the God of the living