Scripture index: Mark

Mk 1:1
- God the Father › Of Jesus
- Jesus is God › Jesus is Son of God
- Scripture › Apostles seemed aware they were writing Scripture
Mk 1:2
- Old Testament canon › Twelve Minor Prophets (one book)
Mk 1:4
- Baptism › Baptism refers to washing away of sin and spiritual renewal
- Baptism › Both stand in sacramental relation to forgiveness of sin
Mk 1:5
- Baptism › All New Testament accounts of
- Baptism › Passages cited for immersion
Mk 1:6
- John the Baptist › Was the Elijah to come
Mk 1:9–10
- Baptism › Passages cited for immersion
Mk 1:9–11
- Baptism › All New Testament accounts of
- Trinity › Triadic pattern explicit in NT
- Trinity › Distinction between persons
Mk 1:10–11
- Theophany › Possible appearances of God
Mk 1:11
- God is love › The Father loves the Son, the Son loves the Father, etc.
- God the Father › Of Jesus
- Jesus is God › Jesus is Son of God
Mk 1:12–13
- Amillennialism › Satan bound during church age
Mk 1:13
- Jesus is God › “God cannot be tempted with evil”
Mk 1:22
- Church government › Has all authority
Mk 1:27
- Church government › Has all authority
Mk 2:5–7
- Jesus is God › Sovereignty
- Jesus is God › Did not recant or explain away claims taken as blasphemy
Mk 2:8
- Jesus is God › Omniscience (all-knowing)
- Jesus is God › “You, you only, know the hearts of mankind”
Mk 2:10
- Church government › Has all authority
Mk 2:18–20
- Marriage › Metaphor for Christ and Church
Mk 2:19–20
- God the bridegroom › Jesus the bridegroom
- Jesus is God › Bridegroom/husband
Mk 2:21–22
- Parables › The wine and wineskins
Mk 2:23–28
- Sabbath › Jesus, Son of Man is Lord of Sabbath
Mk 3:1–6
- Sabbath › Jesus, Son of Man is Lord of Sabbath
Mk 3:11
- God the Father › Of Jesus
- Jesus is God › Jesus is Son of God
Mk 3:13–19
- Ordination › Without mention of laying on hands
Mk 3:14
- Church › Right preaching of the word
- Means of grace › Preaching/teaching of the Word
Mk 3:14–15
- Church government › Source of all the church’s authority
- Scripture › Apostles were agents of canon
Mk 3:27
- Amillennialism › Satan bound during church age
- Parables › The strong man
Mk 3:28–29
- Essential doctrines › Must not blaspheme Holy Spirit
- Holy Spirit is God › “Whoever curses God shall bear his sin”
- Unpardonable sin › Unardonable sin
Mk 3:29
- Hell › “Unquenchable fire”, “lake of fire”, “second death”, “outer darkness”, etc.
Mk 3:31–35
- Family › But Jesus held faith above family
Mk 4:2–9
- Parables › The sower
Mk 4:10–13
- Purpose of parables › Purpose of Jesus’ parables
Mk 4:21–25
- Parables › The lamp under a bushel
Mk 4:26–29
- Parables › The growing seed
Mk 4:30–32
- Parables › The mustard seed
Mk 4:33–34
- Purpose of parables › Purpose of Jesus’ parables
Mk 5:7
- God the Father › Of Jesus
- Jesus is God › Jesus is Son of God
Mk 5:22–23
- Laying on of hands › To heal
Mk 6:2
- Church government › Has all authority
Mk 6:5
- Laying on of hands › To heal
Mk 6:7
- Church government › Source of all the church’s authority
- Ordination › Without mention of laying on hands
Mk 6:8–10
- Paid ministry › Apostles and seventy instructed to carry no money and receive their living from the gospel
Mk 6:34
- Church government › Chief shepherd, teacher, overseer, cornerstone of the church
Mk 6:50
- Jesus is God › “I AM” statements
Mk 6:52
- Purpose of parables › Parables were often misunderstood
Mk 7:4
- Baptism › Places where baptizō and baptismos are not typically translated “baptism”
Mk 7:5–23
- Questions asked of Jesus › “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat.”
Mk 7:7
- Gospel › Warnings against false gospels/doctrines
- Vain thoughts › False doctrine makes worship vain, futile
Mk 7:9–13
- Family › Jesus affirmed family values, honored his earthly parents
Mk 7:10
- Old Testament canon › Exodus
- Old Testament canon › Deuteronomy
Mk 7:14–23
- Purpose of parables › Parables were often misunderstood
- Religious dietary rules › All things are clean
Mk 7:21–22
- Free will › Will is determined by heart nature
Mk 7:21–23
- Total depravity › Depravity of each man is total
Mk 7:24–30
- Jesus is God › Omnipresence (everywhere-present)
Mk 7:27–28
- God the Father › Of Israel
Mk 7:32
- Laying on of hands › To heal
Mk 8:11–13
- Questions asked of Jesus › “We wish to see a sign from you.”
Mk 8:14–21
- Purpose of parables › Parables were often misunderstood
Mk 8:23
- Laying on of hands › To heal
Mk 8:25
- Laying on of hands › To heal
Mk 8:38
- Essential doctrines › Unbelief and heresy are damnable
- God the Father › Of Jesus
Mk 9:7
- God is love › The Father loves the Son, the Son loves the Father, etc.
- God the Father › Of Jesus
- Jesus is God › Jesus is Son of God
- Scripture › New Testament canon
- Scripture › Apostles recognized each others’ writings as Scripture
Mk 9:11–13
- John the Baptist › Was the Elijah to come
Mk 9:30–32
- Purpose of parables › Literal things were also misunderstood
Mk 9:35
- Definite atonement › “All” or “every” (gr. pas) can be distributive (i.e., “every kind”)
Mk 9:37
- Eternal generation › Son sent by Father
Mk 9:43
- Hell › Gehenna (final eternal state, Hell)
- Hell › “Unquenchable fire”, “lake of fire”, “second death”, “outer darkness”, etc.
Mk 9:44
- Hell › “Unquenchable fire”, “lake of fire”, “second death”, “outer darkness”, etc.
Mk 9:45
- Hell › Gehenna (final eternal state, Hell)
Mk 9:47
- Hell › Gehenna (final eternal state, Hell)
Mk 9:47–48
- Hell › “Unquenchable fire”, “lake of fire”, “second death”, “outer darkness”, etc.
Mk 10:1
- Definite atonement › “All” or “every” (gr. pas) can be distributive (i.e., “every kind”)
Mk 10:2–12
- Family › Jesus affirmed family values, honored his earthly parents
- Marriage › Divorce prohibited
- Questions asked of Jesus › “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?”
Mk 10:4
- Old Testament canon › Deuteronomy
Mk 10:6
- Old Testament canon › Genesis
Mk 10:6–8
- Marriage › One man and one woman
Mk 10:7–8
- Old Testament canon › Genesis
Mk 10:13
- Laying on of hands › To bless
Mk 10:13–16
- Baptism › Infants and children of believers should also be baptized
Mk 10:14
- Baptism › Children included in visible church, new covenant community
- Subjects of baptism › Children are included in the church
Mk 10:16
- Laying on of hands › To bless
Mk 10:17–22
- Essential practices › Keeping the commandments (non-specific)
Mk 10:17–27
- Questions asked of Jesus › “What good deed must I do to have eternal life?”
Mk 10:18
- Essential practices › No one keeps the commandments
- Gospel › But no one “does the commandments”
- Jesus is God › Jesus affirmed Jewish monotheism
- Total depravity › Depravity of mankind (every man) is total
- Trinity › Father holds primacy in role
Mk 10:19
- Family › Jesus affirmed family values, honored his earthly parents
- Old Testament canon › Exodus
- Old Testament canon › Deuteronomy
Mk 10:21
- God is love › Jesus loved specific unbelievers
Mk 10:27
- Attributes of God › Omnipotence (all-powerful)
Mk 10:28–30
- Family › But Jesus held faith above family
Mk 10:38
- Baptism › Christ’s atonement is the real cutting off of sin signified by circumcision and baptism
Mk 10:38–39
- Baptism › Baptism signifies death and resurrection (implying immersion is a necessary symbol)
- Cup of God’s wrath › Jesus drank a cup
Mk 10:44
- Slavery › Christians are to serve one another
Mk 10:45
- Jesus is God › “No man can ransom another”
Mk 10:47–48
- Jesus, son of David › Jesus called son of David
Mk 11:9–10
- Old Testament canon › Psalms
Mk 11:17
- Old Testament canon › Jeremiah-Lamentations (one book)
Mk 11:18
- Church government › Has all authority
Mk 11:25
- God the Father › Of an otherwise unspecified audience (“your” or “our” Father)
Mk 11:27–33
- Questions asked of Jesus › “By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?”
Mk 11:28–33
- Church government › Has all authority
Mk 12:1–11
- God the Father › Parables
- Parables › The wicked tenants
Mk 12:10
- Scripture › NT authors assume OT is easy to understand
Mk 12:10–11
- Old Testament canon › Psalms
Mk 12:13–17
- Citizenship › Earthly citizenship
- Questions asked of Jesus › “Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”
Mk 12:18–27
- Marriage › Ends at death
- Questions asked of Jesus › “In the resurrection, therefore, of the seven, whose wife will she be?”
Mk 12:19
- Old Testament canon › Deuteronomy
Mk 12:25
- Sons of God in Genesis 6 › But seems to contradict Jesus’ teaching that angels cannot/do not marry
Mk 12:26
- Old Testament canon › Exodus
- Scripture › NT authors assume OT is easy to understand
- Theophany › Appearances of the angel of the Lord (pre-incarnate Jesus, Christophany)
Mk 12:28–34
- Attributes of God › Simplicity (“without parts”, indivisible, neither compound nor composite)
- Creator-creature distinction › Only one God
- Essential doctrines › God is one (monotheism)
- Jesus is God › Jesus affirmed Jewish monotheism
- Monotheism › “God is one”
- Questions asked of Jesus › “Which is the great commandment in the Law?”
- Trinity › “God is one”, there is only one God
Mk 12:29–30
- Old Testament canon › Deuteronomy
Mk 12:30
- Sin › Wrong attitude
Mk 12:31
- Old Testament canon › Leviticus
Mk 12:32
- Old Testament canon › Deuteronomy
Mk 12:32–33
- Second coming › “No man knows the day or the hour”
Mk 12:33
- Old Testament canon › Leviticus
- Old Testament canon › Deuteronomy
Mk 12:34–37
- Second coming › “No man knows the day or the hour”
Mk 12:35–37
- Jesus is God › Lord
- Jesus, son of David › Jesus called son of David
Mk 12:36
- Father is God › The Father is Yahweh
- Old Testament canon › Psalms
- Trinity › Plurality of persons implicit in OT
Mk 13:1–2
- Temple › No earthly temple under new covenant
Mk 13:6
- Jesus is God › “I AM” statements
Mk 13:13
- Essential practices › Enduring to the end
- Preservation of the saints › Election, salvation (or lack thereof) evidenced by perseverance
Mk 13:14
- Old Testament canon › Daniel
Mk 13:20
- Unconditional election › Believers elected
Mk 13:22
- Unconditional election › Believers elected
Mk 13:26
- Old Testament canon › Daniel
Mk 13:26–27
- Jesus is God › God’s elect are his elect
Mk 13:27
- Unconditional election › Believers elected
Mk 13:28–31
- Parables › The budding fig tree
Mk 13:31
- Jesus is God › Jesus is Yahweh
- Jesus is God › God’s word is his word
- Scripture › God preserves his word
Mk 13:32
- God the Father › Unspecified (simply “the” Father)
- Jesus is God › Son limited in knowledge?
Mk 13:34–37
- Parables › The faithful servant
Mk 14:17–21
- Jesus is God › Omniscience (all-knowing)
Mk 14:21
- Providence › Concurrence in calamity, evil
Mk 14:22–25
- Lord’s Supper › Institution of
Mk 14:24
- Covenant theology › New covenant
Mk 14:27
- Church government › Chief shepherd, teacher, overseer, cornerstone of the church
- Father is God › The Father is Yahweh
- Old Testament canon › Twelve Minor Prophets (one book)
Mk 14:27–31
- Jesus is God › Omniscience (all-knowing)
Mk 14:36
- Cup of God’s wrath › Jesus drank a cup
- God the Father › Of Jesus
Mk 14:61
- God the Father › Of Jesus
- Jesus is God › Jesus is Son of God
Mk 14:61–63
- Jesus is God › “I AM” statements
Mk 14:61–64
- Jesus is God › Did not recant or explain away claims taken as blasphemy
Mk 14:62
- Hypostatic union › Union is permanent
- Old Testament canon › Psalms
- Old Testament canon › Daniel
Mk 15:34
- Old Testament canon › Psalms
Mk 15:37
- Jesus is God › “You will never die”
Mk 15:38
- Temple › No earthly temple under new covenant
Mk 15:39
- God the Father › Of Jesus
- Jesus is God › Jesus is Son of God
Mk 16:1–2
- Sabbath › Jesus’ resurrection was on a Sunday
Mk 16:9
- Sabbath › Jesus’ resurrection was on a Sunday
Mk 16:15
- Definite atonement › “World” in some places carries idea of “all nations”
Mk 16:15–16
- Baptism › Baptism instituted and commanded
- Baptism › Baptism replaces circumcision as new covenant initiatory rite
- Essential doctrines › The gospel (non-specific)
Mk 16:16
- Baptism › Adults should be baptized only upon profession of faith
- Essential practices › Baptism
- Hell › “Unquenchable fire”, “lake of fire”, “second death”, “outer darkness”, etc.
- Subjects of baptism › Passages cited for believer’s baptism
Mk 16:18
- Laying on of hands › To heal

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