Tune in as Pastor Leighton teaches from the Gospel of Mark this morning:
“Our passage today is found right in the middle of this week in Jerusalem. Having been put in their place by the parable of the wicked tenants, the elites now send wave upon wave of their most intelligent representatives, their most adept thinkers to defeat Jesus in his understanding of the law. Mark chapter 3 tells us they just really wanna kill him, but I think it shows their pride and arrogance that they should want to intellectually humiliate him first. As in their day, and perhaps even now, the highest calling of Jewish wisdom was to be able to know the law and be able to defend it. So to all onlookers, it becomes no small thing that this formally uneducated man from the sticks of Galilee, would even engage the ruling’s lead lawyers, let alone best them at their zenith. But in the next three or four interactions that’s exactly how things play out. Jesus meets the Jewish leadership day after day, in unfair argument, and beats them on their own turf.”