Join us as we continue working our way through Mark’s Gospel. Feel free to bring a dessert or drink to share. All CTF women and men are welcome, as well as interested teens. Here are the details for the study this evening:

This week we will read Mark 6:7-8:26. As you read on your own, consider these questions:

• In Mark 7:3-4 we get a long explanation of ritual washing. What might this tell us about Mark’s audience?

• How is it going for the disciples in this section?

• These chapters are framed by the question of Jesus’s identity (including 8:27-30), and the popular opinion that Jesus is a prophet. Why might people have thought Jesus was a prophet?

• In Mark 6:52 it says the disciples “did not understand about the loaves,” referring back to the feeding of the five thousand in the previous passage. What should they have understood about the loaves?