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Continuing the same thoughts as I was running through in Chapter 1.

1. I Always love Mark 2:4-5 Guys make a hole in the roof to get to Jesus and it is pretty much ignored, its actually encouraged.

2. Mark 2:6-11 I love the that no one notices a hole in the roof instead, People are so cynical of this guy (who is healing people) that they take an oppertunity to get offended. He is undignified because he lets this type of stuff go on and then the clincher he forgives sins. I love Jesus no one is saying anything people are just thinking "who is this guy to . . ." and Jesus speaks into the moment with out missing a beat. "which is easier" and verse 11 he goes with Mat in hand. The simple answer that only Jesus knew was that Sin is harder to forgive because that Sin must come at a high price. A spine on the other hand God built the first one with his breath so that in a sense is a very easy thing to fix.

3. Mark 2:13 Jesus leaves one crowd to get away... all of a sudden a crowd appears. He started teaching. From Mark what he is teaching on is ambiguous.

4. Jesus sees a theif this truth has become almost a dry fact. It shouldn't be, Jesus is hanging out with the people that are sleeping around, drinkers, thief's, and his close buddies. This could have been a party and verse 16 the question gets asked "Why is he hanging out with them?" The question for me is do I fear the Sin so much that I could point to a crowd and say I cant be friends because of this. The people Jesus was around were hurting his status amongst the in crowd.

5. Mark 2:17 and Jesus says to that spirit essentially a big who cares what you think. Why do you need God you have you good deeds (which aren't all that good). Jesus would rather hang out with people when they didnt have it together. Oh and this takes up more space than much of the demon possesd stuff. This is more important than most of what has happened in Chapter 1 to Mark.

6. Mark 2:18 So these same puffed up guys (again probably still in Jesus home town) say hey those good followers of John the baptist are fasting, what is up with the gluttons you hang out with. Again Jesus just declares who he is rather than get in a family argument. He isnt here to debate how to fast, he is here to reach the lost. (Mark 2:19-20)

7. Then Jesus Gets confusing (Mark 2:21-22) in the middle of talk about fasting he starts talking about cloth and wineskin's. According to Mark even if these weren't happening during the same conversation they somehow continue along the same thought. Some how there is a newness and the dry rituals of the past just wont fit this movement.

7 Mark 2:23, Jesus tears apart one of the most dry portions of Jewish cutlure in the very next scene again note its in the same thought as the new wineskin's. It is a bridge statement between two events. Fasting to fast and the sabbath for the sake of the Sabbath.

8. Mark 2:24 Jesus would not conform to the rules of the day. Incorrectly the Pharisses accuse Jesus of doing what is unlawful on the sabbath. God never defined work that way the ritualistic jews did. Jesus comes back with a history lesson (Mark 2:25)

9. Mark 2:26-27 Jesus doesn't pick and choose he gets at the heart of the matter. If you follow him it is going to be harder than the rules because why you do what you do is of Grave importance.

10. Mark 2:28 He declares himself God after ripping the rules apart.