Getting to Know Jesus in the Gospel of Mark
Study Fifteen: Mark 3:7-12
7 Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great
crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea 8 and Jerusalem and Idumea and from
beyond the Jordan and from around Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard
all that he was doing, they came to him. 9 And he told his disciples to have a
boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they crush him, 10 for he had
healed many, so that all who had diseases pressed around him to touch him. 11
And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried
out, “You are the Son of God.” 12 And he strictly ordered them not to make him
known. (Mark 3)
1. How would you
describe the effect Jesus was having on the people?
2. What does Mark
state as the reason people were responding in this way?
3. What concern did
Jesus have because of his human nature that is not a concern for him regarding
his divine nature?
4. How would the
unclean spirits have had knowledge of Jesus’ identity beyond what the people
were seeing?
5. What has
happened to change things from Jesus telling the demons not to make him known,
and Jesus telling his disciples to tell the whole world about him?
6. What do you
think is the intended effect of giving us further testimony of what Jesus did
to minister to the people?
7. How would you
describe yourself in relation to this intended effect?
Unless otherwise noted,
Scriptures are from the English Standard Version (The Holy Bible, English
Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good
News Publishers.)
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