Mark 6:1-6-Tale of Two Cities

March 02, 2020

Dr. Allen Marsh

In this passage, Jesus teaches in his hometown of Nazareth and is rejected. His rejection stands in stark contrast with what we saw in Mark 5. The people in Capernaum accepted Him. In two cycles of stories, Mark demonstrates that we must all respond to Jesus. In chapters 5 and 6, Mark invites us to look at different kinds of hearts. There are the receiving hearts, like we saw in chapter 5. There are the hardened hearts of Jesus’ followers, who could not seem to grasp the meaning of what they saw. And there are the distant hearts of Jesus’ enemies, who refused to even look.