1. Gospel of Mark: Jesus the Suffering Servant
CHAPTER FOUR
Gospel of Mark: Jesus the Suffering Servant

2. Bell-ringer February 20th, 2015
Read “Faith Perspective” pp on your own.
Write about how a new perception of a person changed how you felt about that person.
I will give you about 5 minutes to work on this.
We will discuss this afterwards.

3. Homework
*Although I still suggest to work on the guided reading little by little this weekend.*

4. Learning Targets
1. Consider how the perspective of faith helps us to know Jesus in a new way.
2. Recognize several key details of Mark’s gospel including date and purpose.
3. Examine an outline of Mark’s gospel and read its contents. (if there is time)

5. Background - The identity of the author of Mark’s gospel is unknown
- Tradition holds the author was John Mark
- Today, most scholars believe it is based on a number of oral and written collections of Jesus’ sayings and deeds
- Written sometime between A.D. 65 & 70

6. Background - Audience:
• Gentile Christians suffering persecution for their beliefs or
• Christians in Syria or Palestine
- Writings included:
• Jesus’ Baptism
• Preaching/ performing miracles in Galilee
• Journey to Jerusalem
• Preaching/Rejection/Crucifixion

7. Background Sources for Writing 1.) Oral Traditions
2.) Written collections of parables
3.) Miracle stories
4.) Outline of Jesus’ passion story

8. Profile of Mark
Read the following bible passages on the side of p.119 and come up with a summary of Mark’s life/identity. Please write this down in your notebook and work with your assigned partner. (this will be a short answer on the test).
You have 5-7 mins to work.
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9. Stoplight Exit Ticket
On the post-it note I provided please answer one of the following questions:
What is one new thing I learned today? Place on your post-it note on the greenlight.
If you have a question about today’s topic write it down. Place on yellow light.
Explain why your learning stopped today (if it applies). Place on red light.

10. Bell-ringer February 23rd, 2015
Read Mark 6:1-6 and answer the following questions in your notebook:
How is Jesus treated in his hometown--Nazareth?
What was Jesus’ response to the people?
How are you treated in your home and/or school?

11. Learning Targets
Understand the Meaning of authority related to Jesus’ teaching.
Examine the pattern of Jesus’ miracle stories in Mark’s Gospel.

12. Background Message to Readers:
- Jesus walked the path of suffering to glory and eternal life
- So must his followers undergo suffering before they gain their eternal reward
-Asked his readers two questions about Jesus:
• Who is this person?
• Will you follow Jesus?
-Hidden answers are the messianic secret

13. Gospel Reveals Jesus Prologue
- “The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ [the son of God]” Mark 1:1
• No doubt about Jesus’ identity
- Declares what Catholics believe:
•God’s kingdom is related to Jesus himself
• Kingdom is about God’s salvation, peace and justice, and closeness to human beings Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and He lives.

14. Gospel Reveals Jesus Part One: Jesus the Authoritative Teacher
- Meanings of Authority
• Right to Command
• Someone with official power
• Source of reliable information
• Ability to gain respect of others and influence what they do
• Knowledge, skill, or experience worthy of respect

15. Gospel Reveals Jesus
- Jesus is a creative, original, and influential teacher
Four parables about the Kingdom of God:
-Seed growing by itself (4:26-29)
-Growing seed (4:1-20)
-Lamp (4:21-25)
-Mustard Seed (4:30-32)

16. Faith plays a major role in Jesus’ miracles
Healer and Miracle Worker
Faith plays a major role in Jesus’ miracles

17. Find the Structure of Miracle Story (5-7 minutes)
With your partner please read Mark 2:1-12 and chart out the structure of this miracle story (include 5 points) similar to the guided example I used.
Write down the structure with the verses that correspond to the 5 points of a miracle story structure in your own notebook. 

18. Homework
Read pp of the textbook and Mark 10:17-31 and continue working on the guided reading packet for next class.

19. Reflecting on God’s word in your life!
Read Mark 4:1-20 (Parable of the Sower) on your own and journal/reflect on the following questions:
1. Who are people that have planted the Word of God in you?
2. Who are the “birds” who have snatched away God’s word from you?
3. Who are “thorns” to your faith life?
4. What do you hope to accomplish as “good soil”?

20. Bell-ringer February 24th, 2015
Working with partners of your own choosing please complete the “Scripture Search” worksheet I will provide after prayer. No bell-ringer in your notebook today. We will pray first before this exercise. Select you partner after prayer.

21. Learning Targets Understand the specifics of the Messianic Secret.
Look at the 2nd half of Mark as it focuses on discipleship.

22. Healer and Miracle Worker
Patterns of Jesus’ miracles:
Re-read Mark 2:1-12
1.) Introduction presents setting and situation
Jesus is sitting in a room so crowded that friends of a paralyzed man lower him through the roof
2.) Jesus is witness to the display of faith by the people
Jesus forgives the mans sins

23. Patterns of Jesus’ miracles cont.:
3.) Jesus responds to the problem
Jesus cures the man
4.) The result of the miracle follows
Man got up, picked up stretcher, and walked from room
5.) Reaction to the Miracle

24. Bible Activity- Challenges of Discipleship
On your own please read “The Challenges of Discipleship” on p.131 and answer the following questions below on the slip of paper provided.
Write a postscript for the rich young man. What do you think happened to him?
What are you attached to that might be keeping you from giving yourself totally to God?
Write a letter to Jesus telling him what you have to leave behind in your life to be a true disciple of his.

25. Homework
Read pp in the textbook and continue working on the guided reading.
Also investigate recent developments in Catholic-Jewish relations. I want a paragraph summary and source used. (Worth 10 points)
Due Friday!

26. No bell-ringer as we will be praying from Mark 14:32-42.
Bell-ringer February 25th, 2015
No bell-ringer as we will be praying from Mark 14:32-42.

27. Learning Targets Define the Paschal Mystery.
Put the Paschal Mystery in a historical context.

28. The Messianic Secret
• Why Jesus might have directed even his own disciples to keep quiet about his identity
-Jesus’ contemporaries almost universally expected the Messiah to be a military ruler
-He wanted people to approach him with true faith in him as one who serves, not as a military leader
•The secret of Marks’ Gospel is revealed “Jesus is the Suffering Servant prophesied by Isaiah centuries before

29. Way of Discipleship Part Two of Mark’s Gospel
- Jesus revealed himself as the “suffering servant”
- Obedience to the Father leads to ultimate victory
- Readers are challenged to accept Jesus as Messiah, but one who suffers crucifixion before rising to glory

30. Jesus’ followers must be prepared to suffer as Jesus Himself suffered
Way of Discipleship
MAIN MESSAGE:
Jesus’ followers must be prepared to suffer as Jesus Himself suffered

31. Paschal Mystery - Commemorated in today’s church during Holy Week
Initiated into mystery
In Baptism
Represents Paschal Mystery
Eucharist

32. Paschal Mystery
- The passion narratives were probably the oldest stories about Jesus circulating in the early church
- First 13 chapters of Mark’s gospel serve as an introduction to the Passion narratives
- The four gospels agree on the basic essentials, but each evangelist has their own way of telling the story

33. Paschal Mystery
- Mark shows how everyone abandoned Jesus at the very end:
• Judas betrays him
• Three disciples fall asleep during Jesus’ agony
• Jewish/Roman authorities judge him
• Soldiers and crowd mock him

34. Learning Targets Review the definition of the Paschal Mystery.
Understand the theological importance of the Paschal Mystery.

35. Write your answer down in your notebook.
Bell-ringer February 26th, 2015
How would you respond if you had found out you only had one week to live?
Write your answer down in your notebook.

36. Paschal Mystery
- Some of the religious authorities thought Jesus was a false prophet who claimed to be God
- Jewish authorities turned Jesus over to Pilate for execution as a political criminal
- Who was responsible for Jesus’ death?
- Tragedy of history has been the misguided and unjust assigning of the blame on the Jews
- Jesus freely chose to be crucified to prove beyond a doubt his immense love for us

37. Passion Narrative - Conspiracy against Jesus
- Woman anoints Jesus at Bethany
- Judas’ betrayal
- Preparations for the Passover Supper
- Last Supper and the Walk to the Mount at Olives
- Gethsemane
- Before the Sanhedrin
- Jesus and Pilate
- The Crucifixion
- Resurrection

38. Vocabulary
Allegory