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MARK 12:28-34   

‘You are not far from the kingdom of God’ (v. 34)

The man who met Jesus in this text is identified as one of the ‘teachers of the law’ (v. 28). One translation calls him a ‘legal expert’ (CEB),but the Message translation is probably more helpful when identifying him a...

MARK 12:41-44   

‘She from her hopeless poverty has given everything she had, even what she needed to live on’ (v. 44, CEB).

Money and how we handle it is a recurring subject in the teaching of Jesus. He teaches that we should give both to God and to pay our taxes (Mark 12: 17), he wa...

LUKE 18:35-43

‘Those who led the way rebuked him and told him to be quiet, 

but he shouted all the more!’ (v. 39)

There was no way anyone was going to make the blind beggar shut up. It probably is not profitable for beggars to make a nuisance of themselves, but there was more at stake here ...

MARK 10: 35-45   

‘Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all’ (v. 43-44).

No sooner had Jesus begun his final journey to Jerusalem than there is trouble among the disciples. James and John...

Luke 19: 1-10

‘So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly’ (v. 6)

Our series begins up in a tree together with a small, unpopular man. Zacchaeus had climbed up the tree because he wanted to see Jesus and it must have gone beyond his wildest expectations when Jesus stopped and called him do...