Make His Path Straight: A St. John The Baptist Bible Study

St. John The Baptist website: https://www.saintjohnthebaptist.org/ GOA Parish Directory: https://www.goarch.org/parishes

St. John The Baptist website: https://www.saintjohnthebaptist.org/ GOA Parish Directory: https://www.goarch.org/parishes List of Sources Used For This Study: Revised Standard Version of the Bible National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%201&version=RSV The Religion of the Apostles Fr. Stephan De Young https://h...

St. John The Baptist website: https://www.saintjohnthebaptist.org/ GOA Parish Directory: https://www.goarch.org/parishes List of Sources Used For This Study: Revised Standard Version of the Bible National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%201&version=RSV The Religion of the Apostles Fr. Stephan De Young https://h...

St. John The Baptist website: https://www.saintjohnthebaptist.org/ GOA Parish Directory: https://www.goarch.org/parishes List of Sources Used For This Study: Revised Standard Version of the Bible National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%201&version=RSV The Religion of the Apostles Fr. Stephan De Young https://h...

St. John The Baptist website: https://www.saintjohnthebaptist.org/ GOA Parish Directory: https://www.goarch.org/parishes List of Sources Used For This Study: Revised Standard Version of the Bible National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%201&version=RSV The Religion of the Apostles Fr. Stephan De Young https://h...

St. John The Baptist website: https://www.saintjohnthebaptist.org/ GOA Parish Directory: https://www.goarch.org/parishes List of Sources Used For This Study: Revised Standard Version of the Bible National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%201&version=RSV The Religion of the Apostles Fr. Stephan De Young https://h...

St. John The Baptist website: https://www.saintjohnthebaptist.org/ GOA Parish Directory: https://www.goarch.org/parishes List of Sources Used For This Study: Revised Standard Version of the Bible National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%201&version=RSV The Religion of the Apostles Fr. Stephan De Young https://h...

St. John The Baptist website: https://www.saintjohnthebaptist.org/ GOA Parish Directory: https://www.goarch.org/parishes List of Sources Used For This Study: Revised Standard Version of the Bible National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%201&version=RSV The Religion of the Apostles Fr. Stephan De Young https://h...

St. John The Baptist website: https://www.saintjohnthebaptist.org/ GOA Parish Directory: https://www.goarch.org/parishes List of Sources Used For This Study: Revised Standard Version of the Bible National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%201&version=RSV The Religion of the Apostles Fr. Stephan De Young https://h...

St. John The Baptist website:  https://www.saintjohnthebaptist.org/  GOA Parish Directory:  https://www.goarch.org/parishes  List of Sources Used For This Study:  Revised Standard Version of the Bible  National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America  https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%201&version=RSV  The Religio...

St. John The Baptist website: https://www.saintjohnthebaptist.org/ GOA Parish Directory: https://www.goarch.org/parishes List of Sources Used For This Study: Revised Standard Version of the Bible National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%201&version=RSV The Religion of the Apostles Fr. Stephan De Young https://h...

St. John The Baptist website: https://www.saintjohnthebaptist.org/ GOA Parish Directory: https://www.goarch.org/parishes List of Sources Used For This Study: Revised Standard Version of the Bible National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%201&version=RSV The Religion of the Apostles Fr. Stephan De Young https://h...

St. John The Baptist website: https://www.saintjohnthebaptist.org/ GOA Parish Directory: https://www.goarch.org/parishes List of Sources Used For This Study: Revised Standard Version of the Bible National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%201&version=RSV The Religion of the Apostles Fr. Stephan De Young https://h...

St. John The Baptist website: https://www.saintjohnthebaptist.org/ GOA Parish Directory: https://www.goarch.org/parishes List of Sources Used For This Study: Revised Standard Version of the Bible National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%201&version=RSV The Religion of the Apostles Fr. Stephan De Young https://h...

St. John The Baptist website: https://www.saintjohnthebaptist.org/ GOA Parish Directory: https://www.goarch.org/parishes List of Sources Used For This Study: Revised Standard Version of the Bible National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%201&version=RSV The Religion of the Apostles Fr. Stephan De Young https://h...

St. John The Baptist website: https://www.saintjohnthebaptist.org/ GOA Parish Directory: https://www.goarch.org/parishes List of Sources Used For This Study: Revised Standard Version of the Bible National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%201&version=RSV The Religion of the Apostles Fr. Stephan De Young https://h...

St. John The Baptist website: https://www.saintjohnthebaptist.org/ GOA Parish Directory: https://www.goarch.org/parishes List of Sources Used For This Study: Revised Standard Version of the Bible National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%201&version=RSV The Religion of the Apostles Fr. Stephan De Young https://h...

St. John The Baptist website: https://www.saintjohnthebaptist.org/ GOA Parish Directory: https://www.goarch.org/parishes List of Sources Used For This Study: Revised Standard Version of the Bible National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%201&version=RSV The Religion of the Apostles Fr. Stephan De Young https://h...

Within the eighth chapter of the Gospel According to St. Mark, the narrative of Christ’s coming passion continues to ramp up.  Conflict will continue between Him and His adversaries, as well as the conflict with His own followers. Yet, in this whole section, the through line is that although the twelve may harden their hearts to who Christ is for the moment, through faith, their hearts will s...

In Mark chapter 7, we are again confronted with Christ's coming passion, as seen in the actions of the Scribes and Pharisees as a result of their hardness of heart, yet Jesus takes this opportunity to teach those who follow Him.  In teaching His followers, from where true impurity is rooted, Christ shows us that in Him, all is made clean, which is further exemplified in the example given of t...

The following narrative of Mark 6 continues the process of revealing to us who Jesus truly is and the broader call that is made of all of us who follow Him in the way we live our lives.  As we see in a common trend in this chapter, in our lives, we are presented with opportunities to serve God and His people every day. Yet, even those who can be seen as closest to Him, in the people of his ne...

Within this chapter, we witness a series of three healings, the demoniac, the woman with the flow of blood, and finally, Jairus’s daughter.  All three of these healings have a common element that we can examine, and that element is the fact that their infirmity causes them to stand outside of the broader social order.  For the demoniac, it is seen in his living among the mountains and to...

Within this chapter of the Gospel account, we move on from the conflict between Christ and the authorities of the day and are then presented with a series of teachings in the form of parables by Jesus.  The goal of these parables is to present to the hearer the reality that has now come through Christ in the new Messianic Age, for He is both the sewer and the seed that is planted and grows in...

Within this chapter, we see the expression of Christ's authority continue, his fame spread further, and the plot to destroy Him grow.  Yet it is towards the end of this chapter that we see Christ emphasize the true adversary who He is battling within the person of Satan, the strong man, who has been bound by the coming of Christ.  Thus since we are in the Messianic age, although the devi...

In this chapter, Jesus’ Authority and resistance to His authority take center stage in the seemingly human conflicts that will take place between Him and the leaders of the people.  However, it needs to be pointed out that the intellectual, moral, and authoritative conflict is not to be looked at exclusively as being between Christ and individuals or groups; rather, the true battles that we w...