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Take Up Your Cross: A Hometown's Rejection and Bread for Five Thousand | Mark 6–8
Episode Overview
Today we read Mark chapters 6 through 8. Jesus returns to Nazareth and the reaction is telling: isn't this the carpenter? Aren't his sisters here with us? Familiarity turns out to be its own kind of blindness, and Mark says He could not do any miracles there except heal a few sick people, and He was amazed at their lack of faith.
He sends the twelve out two by two with nothing but a staff. Meanwhile Mark tells the story of John the Baptist's execution—a rash oath at a birthday party, a head on a platter—which functions as a warning about what happens to prophets who confront…
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