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Who Touched My Clothes? Storms Stilled and Three Lives Restored | Mark 2–5
Episode Overview
Today we read Mark chapters 2 through 5. It opens with four friends who cannot get through the crowd, so they dig through the roof and lower their paralyzed friend down. Jesus sees their faith—theirs, not only his—and says son, your sins are forgiven, which is not what anyone came for and is exactly what provokes the charge of blasphemy.
The conflicts stack up from there: eating with tax collectors, not fasting, picking grain on the Sabbath, healing a shriveled hand on the Sabbath while they watch to see if He will. Mark notes Jesus looking around at them in anger, deeply…
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