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  This section of scripture is completely different from the rest of the text, as everything that we have read prior to this, the main character has been Jesus, He has been the focus of the entire narrative, now the narrative shift to another person, John the Baptist, now our Roman reader is going to see what we refer to as a literary flashback. Mark 6:14 King Herod heard of it, for Jesus’ name had become known. Some said, “John the Baptist has been raised from the dead. That is why these miraculous powers are at work in him.” Mark 6:15 But others said, “He is Elijah.” And others said, “He is a prophet, like one of the prophets of old.” This part of scripture starts out with Herod who was not an actual king, but for simplicity sake, Mark calls him a king, in fact what Herod was a Tetrarch, his father was a king, he ruled over the entirety of land in what was Judah and Samaria, but after he died, the Romans, who were the ones really in control, split the area up into three a...

Sermon - Sunday, May 17, 2026 - Gospel of Mark 6:1-13 Prophets and Apostles Our Roman reader has taken in a lot at this point. This Jesus has done many things that would be considered beyond the supernatural, He has healed people, cast out demons, calm the wind and the waved, and now brought back a young girl from the dead. Such remarkable acts cannot be keeping a secret, and would have spread rapidly even during a tine such as the 1 st century, while not nearly as fast as to today, information was still getting out especially in a small area that was Galilee, Judah and the surrounding countries. People travel through these areas often, and so that is would not take long for the word to get our about this Rabbi and his disciples who were going through the countryside of Israel. One such place being Jesus’ hometown, not the place he was born, that was Bethlehem but the place that he grew up in, and until recently is the place that he lived. Nazareth. Nazareth was a very small place with...