Introduction And they came again to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to him, and they said to him, “By what authority are you doing these things, or who gave you this authority to do them?” Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one question;…

Introduction Our text this morning deals with the disciples’ inability to cast out a demon As the father of the boy with the demon says, they don’t have the power to do it Now remember, they’ve been commissioned and given authority over demons: And he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so…

Introduction 30 vv — plenty to keep us busy for weeks But John Mark not writing series of disconnected stories—overall narrative, going somewhere Rather than dwelling on details, zoom out a little to see the big picture We’ve come to a turning point in Mark’s gospel Act 1 : Galilee (1–8) Calling 12,…