Section C

A GOLDEN RULE IS THE WAY OF THE CHILD

                                                                                                                        Mark 9:2-10:32

 

 

            1.         Be childlike       9.2-9:32           .Mountain - Transfiguration                   child

            2.         Be childlike       9:33-50            Capernaum                                           child

            3          Be childlike       10:1-32            Judea                                                   child

Many will be first last and the last first (v10:32)

 

SECTION C:

A GOLDEN RULE IS THE WAY OF THE CHILD

(This "Way" breaks with major analysis patterns)

 

Mark 9:2-32

The Way of the Child . .

 

9:2. And after days six takes Jesus Peter and James and John, and leads up them into mountain a high privately alone. And he was transfigured before them, and the garments of him became gleaming white exceedingly, such as fuller on the earth cannot so to whiten. 4 And appeared to them Elias with Moses and they were conversing with Jesus. 5 And answering Peter says to Jesus: Rabbi, good it is us here to be, and let us make three tents, for the one and for Moses one and for Elias one. 6 For he knew not what he answered; for exceedingly afraid they became. 7 and there came a cloud overshadowing them, and there came a voice out of the cloud; This is the Son of me the beloved here ye him. and suddenly looking around no longer no (any) one they saw except Jesus only with themselves. 9 And coming down them out of the mountain he ordered them that to no one the things which they saw they should relate except when the Son of man out of the dead should rise. 10 And the word they held to themselves debating what is the "out of the dead to rise" 11 And they questioned him saying: why say the scribes that Elias it behoves to come first? 12 And he said to them: Elias indeed coming first

 

 

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restores all things; and how has it been written on concerning the Son of man, that many things he should suffer and beset at naught? 13 But I tell you that indeed Elias has come, and they did to him what they wished, as it has been written on him. 14 And coming to the disciples they saw crowd a much great around them and scribes debating with them. 15 And immediately all the crowd seeing him were greatly astonished, and running up to greeted him. 16 and he questioned them: What are ye debating with them? 17 And answered him one of the crowd: Teacher I brought the son of me to thee, having spirit a dumb; 18 And wherever him it seizes, it tears him, and he foams and grinds the (his)teeth and he wastes away; and I told the disciples of thee that it they might expel, and they were not able. 19 And he answering them says: oh generation unbelieving, until when with you shall I be? how long shall I endure you? bring him to me. 20 And they brought him to him. And seeing him the spirit immediately violently threw him, and falling on the earth he wallowed foaming. 21 And he questioned the father of him: What time is it while this has happened to him? And he said: From childhood; and 22 often both into fire him it three and into waters that it may destroy him: but if anything thou canst, help us having compassion us. 23 And Jesus said to him: The "if thou canst," all things possible to the one believing. 24 Immediately crying out the father of the child said: I believe: help thou of me the unbelief. 25 And seeing Jesus that is (was) running together a crowd, rebuked the spirit unclean saying to it: Dumb and deaf spirit, I command thee, come forth out of him and no more mayest thou enter into him. 26 And crying out much convulsing (him) it came out: and he was as dead so as many said to say that he died. 27 But Jesus taking hold of the hand of him raised him, and he stood up. 28 And entering him into a house the disciples of him privately questioned him: Why we were not able to expel it? 29 And he told them: This kind by nothing can to come out except by prayer. 30 And thence going forth they passed through Galilee, and he wished not that anyone should know: for he was teaching the disciples of him, and told them, The son of man is betrayed into the hands of men and they will kill him, and being killed after three days he will rise up 32 they But did not know the word, and feared him to question. (Note: Literal translation of Revised Standard Version Note 2: This does not appear to follow the "hook" pattern of most texts)