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DAY FIVE:  Multitudes Ministered To

Please carefully read Mark 6:53-56 and answer the following questions.

1.  When they made it back to shore (John 6:21 says they immediately reached shore when Jesus entered the boat), what happened (v. 53, 54)?

2.  What did the people do when they saw it was Jesus (v. 55)?

3.  When these people saw it was Jesus, they ran around the region; literally, they went around in circles.  Kenneth Wuest well said of this, “What a pathetic picture. The people kept running from place to place, carrying their sick on pallets from place to place, wherever Jesus was reported to be or wherever it might be possible to find Him. This incident brings us near the close of our Lord’s Galilean ministry, and to the time when His popularity was phenomenal.”[xiii]   Even though this was a pathetic scene, what extraordinary things took place at that time (v. 56)?

NOTE: The marketplaces (Mark 6:56) were the largest open areas of a town or village, where larger crowds could gather. In contrast to Greek cities, market areas in Galilean towns weren’t always in the center of town.[xiv]  The Agora, or marketplace, was one of two platforms along with the synagogue that Paul would later use to minister in the various cities he traveled to in the book of Acts. 

4.  Something which was not addressed here by Mark but was by John was that another problem arose prior to Jesus leaving Galilee, which was that most of the people followed Him not because of gratitude but out of what they could get out of Him!  What are some of the sad things the following passages from John’s Gospel records about this?

John 2:23-25

John 6:26-36, 60-66

Scripture Memory:  Can you write out this week’s passage by memory here below?  Give it a try, and keep reviewing the passage several times throughout the day.

Mark 6:34: