New Testament 1
Gospel of Mark 4:35-5:34  --  Lecture 17
Jesus: the Doer of Mighty Deeds
•	Jesus was a marvelous teacher as we saw in the previous lecture.  However this section of Mark shows Jesus as doing many great_____________________.
Three Basic Words for Miracles
•	Are used in the NT to denote Jesus’ miracles:
•	1) _____________________.= power which calls attention to agency by which they were performed.
•	2) _____________________.= wonder which focuses on the state of the mind produced in those who witnessed the miracle
•	3) _____________________.= sign points to the significance in the purpose of God.
All three words 
•	were used by _____________________.on the Day of Pentecost to describe Jesus’_____________________.:                 Acts 2:22
 A Fourth Word: _____________________.= Works
•	Is found in _____________________.Gospel only, and there always on the lips of Jesus. 
•	Yet, John’s most characteristic word for a miracle is “_____________________.”
Prominence of Miracles
•	The Gospels affirm that the _____________________.included are only a small proportion of those done by Jesus.  It is a fact that a high proportion of the Gospel material is devoted to_____________________..
Alan Richardson, The Miracles Stories of the Gospels, 
•	Says that of the _____________________.verses of Mark (not counting the controversial ending of Mark 16:9-20), no fewer than _____________________.verses deal indirectly or directly with miracles. This comes to about 31 percent of Mark is miracle related (p. 36).  The _____________________.are not a minor appendage to the gospel message, but are so closely intertwined with the fabric of teaching that to unravel them would be to leave the Gospel in tatters (59).
Karl Adam,
•	Is quoted as saying, “The whole story of Jesus, from the _____________________.in the East to the_____________________., is a blaze of miracle, Richardson, 105.
Significance of Miracles
•	Earlier writers emphasized the evidential value of the miracles of Jesus, and though there is a tendency today to deny or _____________________.this aspect of the miracles, it is a fact not to be overlooked (Jn 3:2, 5:36, Acts 2:22)  They were not mere feats of power designed to _____________________.those who did not want to believe. 
Significance of Miracles II
•	Jesus’ enemies urged Him to perform such works to prove His claims, but He refused their requests.  A. B. Bruce called the miracles “vehicles of_____________________., and not merely evidential adjuncts.”  They are a very part of the substance of revelation, not simply a _____________________.of its content. 
The Purpose of Miracles
•	They were benevolent, traceable to the stirring His divine _____________________.and compassion.  A. M. Hunter thinks of the Gospel miracles as “tokens of a new order of life inaugurated by the coming of Christ. They are the Kingdom of God in_____________________.—God’s sovereign grace and forgiveness operative in Christ (The Works and Words of Jesus, p. 54-56.)
Credibility of Miracles
•	Adolf Harnack thought of miracles as “an interruption of the order of_____________________.” and because he looked upon the natural world as “a closed system” of _____________________.and effect, flatly affirmed that “there can be no such things as miracles (What is Christianity?, p. 28)
•	M. Hunter
Rejects Harnack’s contention that nature is a closed system “_____________________.” to intrusions from the supernature and that the miracles are “semi-legendary frame to be_____________________..” They are on the contrary, “part of the picture itself.” (Work and Words, 55). 
Hunter Concludes:
“In the last resort, all turns on what we think about Jesus…If …Jesus was, and is, what Christians have always believed Him to be, the Son of God in a unique and lovely sense; if in Him the Spirit of the living God was uniquely_____________________.; if His will was completely synonymous with the Divine_____________________.; then there is nothing inherently absurd or incredible in the supposition that such a one must have had control over the great frame of Nature itself (Work and Words, 59).
Mark’s Selection of Jesus’ Mighty Works
Mark selected _____________________.examples of Jesus’ miracles. In them a kind of progression may be observed, the climax being reached in His restoring to _____________________.a dead girl.
•	The Stilling of the Storm: (4:35-41)
The Sea of Galilee was called and this miracles shows us the power Jesus had over nature.  The Sea of Galilee is _____________________.feet below sea level and is notorious for storms which often come suddenly and almost without_____________________..
2. The Gersane (Gaderene) Demoniac (5:1-20)
The place of this miracle is in the_____________________..  Here we see the power of Jesus over_____________________..
The Miracle
This is a record of the most _____________________.case of demon possession to be found in the gospels.  Luke 8:27 says the man wore no clothes.  Matthew reports that there were _____________________.demoniacs and says that they were so fierce that no one could travel the road that passed through the area.  Any problems of harmony here? Not if Mark only recorded the worse of the two men as demonstration of Jesus’ power over demons.
Garasene or Gadarene?
The Greek mss are somewhat confusing in their statements of the location of the miracle.  KJV uses Gadarenes and ASV uses _____________________.and others “Gergasenes”.  The one accepted by most Bibles today is “Gerasenes.  The “country of the Gerasenes” is accepted to mean the area dominated by Gerasa (modern _____________________.in Jordan), located about 15 miles southeast of the Sea of Galilee.
Others Understand
The location to be a reference to “_____________________.”, a small town of which the ruins are located on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee.  This location seems to fit the story’s circumstances (esp v. 13).   Others suggest that the territory of _____________________.included this small city and therefore there would be not probable in either event.
•	A description of the man’s plight (5:1-5)
b) The Meeting with Jesus (5:6-13)
c) The Aftermath (5:14-20)
3. The Healing of the Woman with a Flow of Blood (5:21-34)
This gives evidence of Jesus’ power of_____________________..
This is a sort of “miracle within a miracle” occurring as an incident in connection with the miracle of raising _____________________.daughter.  The account of the latter actually begins at 5:21 and the narrative of the healing of the woman is contained in 25-34.
•	The request of Jairus (21-24)
•	b) The healing of the woman (25-34)
4. The Raising of Jairus’ Daughter (5:35-43)
The event happens in _____________________.and shows Jesus’ power over death.
This is the only record Mark gives of a _____________________.by Jesus, and the miracle is the only instance of such a miracle recorded by all of the synoptic gospels.