Mark 15:1-20 – Unfounded accusations fueled by envy and the drive for power are hurled at the Lord Jesus. The rejection is complete as the crowd shouts, “Crucify Him! Crucify Him!”
Mark 14:53-72– As expected, those who were plotting to kill Jesus subjected the Lord to a rigged trial–one where the sentence was predetermined. No one except Jesus (and least of all Peter) expected those closest to Him to desert Him in His time of need.
Mark 14:27-52 Mark’s account of the events leading up to the death, burial and resurrection of our Lord focuses on Jesus’ “humanness”. In this passage, we can identify with the emotions Christ felt as he faced the abandonment of those closest to him. Betrayed. Arrested. Deserted. Denied.
Mark 14:1-21 Today we celebrate the Lord’s Supper to commemorate the Lord’s death until He returns. In this account in Mark’s Gospel of the last Passover feast shared by Jesus and His disciples, we learn that the plot to kill Jesus was well underway. The Lord used the occasion of this familiar ritual to begin…