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Mark 8:1-21
Key Verse 8:18 “Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? And don’t you remember?”
- Where did this event take place? (1; cf. 7:31) How is this incident similar/different from the one described in 6:30-44?
- Contrast Jesus’ compassion for the crowd with the disciples’? (2-4) What shows that they needed to grow in faith?
- How did Jesus feed the crowd with the disciples? (5-9) What does this teach about how God works?
- Why did the Pharisees ask Jesus for a sign from heaven? (11) Why did Jesus refuse to give a sign? (12) Why can miraculous signs never cure unbelief?
- What did Jesus mean by “Watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees and that of Herod”? (15) How is unbelief like yeast? How did the disciples misunderstand Jesus? (16)
- How did Jesus rebuke his disciples’ unbelief? (17-18) What does Jesus teach them by reminding them of two previous miracles? (19-21)