Jesus In The Book Of Mark

The book of Mark is one of the four Gospels that tells the life story of Jesus Christ. The first six chapters of the book focus a great deal on Jesus and his life as he is traveling around and teaching. It is important to look at all of the actions taken by Jesus and deeply look into his teachings, because by doing these things we can understand more about him as a whole. By examining these first six chapters we can look into who Jesus was, and what kind of man he was here on the Earth. Jesus, as described in Mark, is the authoritative Son of God (Mark 1:11). He is The Lord (Mark 1:3). Along with these titles comes the characteristics that Jesus possesses because he is indeed the Son of God. He has authority on the Earth to forgive sins (Mark 2:10). From these passages we can assume that Jesus was given this authority by God himself, another validation that he is indeed the Son of God. He not only has the authority to
There are countless examples throughout Mark where Jesus is teaching the public about God and how they should be living their lives. In chapter four there are multiple accounts of Jesus teaching, all in the form of parables. Some of these parables include one about soil, lamps, growing seeds, and mustard seeds (Mark 4:4-20; 21-25 26-29; 30-32). Jesus uses all of these common day things in parables to relate to men the messages of Christianity. Through his teachings Jesus becomes the messenger of God (Mark 1:14). Another major identity of Jesus as shown in Mark is that he is a miracle worker. He performs countless miracles throughout the course of these first chapters in Mark. The major miracles that really stand out are when he calms the seas, when he feeds the five thousand, and when he walks on water (Mark 4:39; 6:41-44; 48). Through description of all of these miracles it once again provides more evidence of identifying Jesus as the Son of