Course Outline

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and the Course

Unit 1: Introduction to the Gospel of Mark

• Who Wrote Mark and When? Part 1

• Who Wrote Mark and When? Part 2

• Living Voices

• Mark and Qumran Cave 7

• Manuscripts of Mark

• Historical Context of Mark

• Mark’s Incipit

Unit 2: Jesus’ Public Ministry Begins

• Mark’s Thesis Statement (1:1–3)

• John the Baptist

• The Kingdom of God in Mark 1:15

• Jesus in Capernaum

Unit 3: Jesus’ Power as Exorcist and Healer

• Names and Pigs

• Jesus Succeeds Where Others Fail

• Exorcism Methods

• Jesus versus Solomon

• Wanted: Holy Spirit Power

• Enduring Legacy of Jesus’ Power

Unit 4: Son of Man, Apostles of God

• Healing and Forgiving the Paralytic

• Son of Man

• Apostles Sent by God

• Sowing the Word

• Structure of Mark

Unit 5: Messianic Revelations

• Peter’s Confession of Christ

• Jesus’ Passion Prophecy

• Take Up Your Cross

• Heavenly Confirmation

Unit 6: Kingdom Ethics and Relationships

• Divorce

• Children

• The Rich Man

• Wealth and the Kingdom of God

• Service in the Kingdom

• Suffering as Atonement in Jewish Tradition

• Healing of Bartimaeus

Unit 7: Jesus in Jerusalem

• Triumphal Entry: Part 1

• Triumphal Entry: Part 2

• The Fig Tree

• House of Prayer or Robbers’ Den?

• Jeremiah’s Warning

• Jesus’ Calculated Risk

Unit 8: Escalating Antagonism

• Narrative Structure

• By What Authority?

• Wicked Vineyard Tenants: Part 1

• Wicked Vineyard Tenants: Part 2

• Trying to Trap Jesus

• David and the Identity of the Messiah

• Greed on Display

• Jesus’ End Times Prophecies

Unit 9: Road to the Cross

• Devotion and Betrayal

• The Last Supper

• Words of Institution

• Gethsemane

• Jesus’ Arrest

• Jesus’ Trial

• Peter’s Denial

Unit 10: Death, Burial, and Resurrection

• Jesus before Pilate

• King of the Jews

• The Death of Jesus

• Jesus’ Burial

• The Resurrection of Jesus

• The Last Twelve Verses of Mark

• Was Jesus Really Resurrected?
  
  

Conclusion

• Bringing the Gospel to Life