Jesus: The Suffering Servant (Part 3)

Unlocked: Daily Devotions for Teens · May 5, 2021 · 4m

Who is Jesus? This is the question Mark wants his audience to wrestle with. Throughout his account of Jesus’ life, Mark shows different people, including Jesus’ disciples, as they wrestle with the same question: Who is Jesus? Mark illustrates how people didn’t really know who Jesus was. They figured out He was the Messiah, the Son of God who came to rescue them, but they thought that meant He would rescue them from the oppression of their Roman rulers. They expected Him to lead them in a political uprising, taking back their land in glorious victory. They failed to realize that, in the…