Study Preparation and Discussion Questions - Mark 7.1-23
God's Law and Human Tradition / Clean and Unclean
Recommended Preparation
1) Mark 7.1-23
2) Mark For Everyone, pages 85-94
3) Jesus The King, Chapter 7 (The Stain)
4) Simply Jesus, pages 99 - 104
5) Tim Keller sermon, Jesus and the Bible
6) Tim Keller sermon, Becoming Clean
Discussion Questions
1) Suddenly Mark's healing and miracle stories have stopped and we have a debate focusing on a controversy about the interpretation and practice of Judaism by Jesus and his followers. What is the problem according to the Pharisees (vv. 1-5)?
2) What is the problem according to Jesus and how does he illustrate it (vv. 6-13)?
3) Are there ways that we today give verbal assent to something in scripture but don't always live by it?
4) In Mark 7.14-23, what is radically different about Jesus' teaching on what is clean and unclean? How would it likely have been received?
5) How does Jesus say both that sometimes people don't take Scripture seriously enough and that sometimes they take it too far? What things in the Bible today are we in danger of not taking seriously enough and that things are we in danger of taking too far?
1) Mark 7.1-23
2) Mark For Everyone, pages 85-94
3) Jesus The King, Chapter 7 (The Stain)
4) Simply Jesus, pages 99 - 104
5) Tim Keller sermon, Jesus and the Bible
6) Tim Keller sermon, Becoming Clean
Discussion Questions
1) Suddenly Mark's healing and miracle stories have stopped and we have a debate focusing on a controversy about the interpretation and practice of Judaism by Jesus and his followers. What is the problem according to the Pharisees (vv. 1-5)?
2) What is the problem according to Jesus and how does he illustrate it (vv. 6-13)?
3) Are there ways that we today give verbal assent to something in scripture but don't always live by it?
4) In Mark 7.14-23, what is radically different about Jesus' teaching on what is clean and unclean? How would it likely have been received?
5) How does Jesus say both that sometimes people don't take Scripture seriously enough and that sometimes they take it too far? What things in the Bible today are we in danger of not taking seriously enough and that things are we in danger of taking too far?