Mark 8

I don't quite understand when Jesus is talking about the yeast of the Pharisees and Herod. I know that Jesus ends it by saying, "Do you still not understand?"
Unfortunately, I don't quite get it.

Mark 7

The first part of this chapter that sticks out is when Jesus talks about clean and unclean foods. I know that there are plenty of religions now that don't eat certain foods and it is weird to me. I'm glad that Jesus said that all foods were good to eat. We would be missing out on a lot of good things.
The second thing that stood out to me was the part at the end after Jesus had healed the deaf and mute. He told them not to tell anyone. Why? Did I miss something earlier about this? It seems like good marketing to get the word out about what Jesus can do and for people to be able to build their faith believing that Jesus is the Christ that he has said that he is.

Mark 6

I like the part where Jesus says that only in the place where Jesus grew up and was that people really respected him for who and what he did. They were amazed, but giving him a hard time because it was expected that he wouldn't have as much knowledge of the spiritual sides that he had. After doing some reading I now understand why the people were so puzzled with Jesus' knowledge of the Bible and able to teach in the temple. It was the father's duty to teach his son a trade and it was expected that Jesus would have been a carpenter. Any child that did not follow in his father's footsteps was looked at as a failure of the father's responsibilites.
I think about what it is like to have someone famous grow up around you. Someone that you have known for awhile and have gotten used to them in a different sence. People in Jesus' home town had gotten used to Jesus and knew what he was like. Others were shocked at what they saw. I think that is neat.