This document summarizes a section of the Gospel of Mark. It includes: 1) Three predictions by Jesus that he will suffer, be killed, and rise again. When Jesus tells his disciples this, Peter rebukes him but Jesus rebukes Peter back. 2) A story of Jesus healing a blind man and later healing blind Bartimaeus. 3) Jesus asking his disciples who people say he is and who they say he is. Peter answers that he is the Messiah. 4) The transfiguration story from Mark 9 where Jesus appears glorified with Moses and Elijah and is proclaimed as God's son.

1. Mark 8:31-38
Lent 2

2. “Jesus Christ”

3. The Central Section
Mark 8:22-10:52
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 Framed by healings of blind men
 Three Passion predictions
 Caesarea Philippi
 The Transfiguration

4. Jesus Cures a Blind Man
at Bethsaida
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22 They came to Bethsaida. Some
people brought a blind man to him and
begged him to touch him. 23He took the
blind man by the hand and led him out
of the village; and when he had put
saliva on his eyes and laid his hands on
him, he asked him, „Can you see
anything?‟ 24And the man looked up
and said, „I can see people, but they
look like trees, walking.‟ 25Then Jesus
laid his hands on his eyes again; and he
looked intently and his sight was
restored, and he saw everything clearly.
26Then he sent him away to his
home, saying, „Do not even go into the
village.‟

5. The Healing of Blind
Bartimaeus
10:46 They came to Jericho. As he and his disciples and a large crowd were
leaving Jericho, Bartimaeus son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by
the roadside. 47When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to
shout out and say, „Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!‟ 48Many sternly
ordered him to be quiet, but he cried out even more loudly, „Son of David,
have mercy on me!‟ 49Jesus stood still and said, „Call him here.‟ And they
called the blind man, saying to him, „Take heart; get up, he is calling you.‟
50So throwing off his cloak, he sprang up and came to Jesus. 51Then Jesus
said to him, „What do you want me to do for you?‟ The blind man said to
him, „My teacher, let me see again.‟ 52Jesus said to him, „Go; your faith has
made you well.‟ Immediately he regained his sight and followed him on the
way.

6. Three Passion Predictions
 8:31-32 Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo
great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the
scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. 32He said all this
quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But
turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, „Get
behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but
on human things.‟
 9:30-32 They went on from there and passed through Galilee. He did not
want anyone to know it; 31for he was teaching his disciples, saying to
them, „The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will
kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise again.‟ 32But they
did not understand what he was saying and were afraid to ask him.
 10:32-34 They were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was
walking ahead of them; they were amazed, and those who followed were
afraid. He took the twelve aside again and began to tell them what was to
happen to him, 33saying, „See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son
of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they
will condemn him to death; then they will hand him over to the Gentiles;
34they will mock him, and spit upon him, and flog him, and kill him; and
after three days he will rise again.‟

7. Caesarea Philippi
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9. “Who Do You Say That I Am?”
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27 Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea
Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, „Who do
people say that I am?‟ And they answered him, „John the
Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of the
prophets.‟ He asked them, „But who do you say that I am?‟
Peter answered him, „You are the Messiah.‟ And he sternly
ordered them not to tell anyone about him.

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12. The Christ
 First time since 1:1
 “The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son
of God.”
 Mystery and disclosure

13. The Transfiguration

14. Mark 9:2-8
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15. Who Do You Say That I Am?
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 Transition to Lent
 Capturing Jesus
 Can prepare this Sunday for what is to come in Mark