Mark Chapter 4

1. What platform did Jesus use to preach from?



2. What teaching method did he begin to use?



3. What types of soil does Jesus use to illustrate the hearts of men?



4. What question did the disciples ask Jesus in verse 10?  What was His answer?



5. Do you understand the parable of the Sower?  If so, explain it in your own words.



6. What purpose does a lamp serve?  Who is the lamp?



7. What did Jesus tell them to be careful with?



8. Jesus explained that the kingdom of God was like what two things?



9. Who received the explanations of the parables?



10. Where were Jesus and His disciples when the storm came?  What was Jesus doing?



11. What emotional response to this problem did Jesus rebuke?  What did His disciples lack?





Mark chapter 5

1. Who met Jesus immediately after He left the boat?



2. Describe the severity of this man’s condition.



3. What did this man do and say when he approached Jesus?  Why did the man do this?



4. What question did Jesus ask?  What did the demon ask?



5. What happened to the demons?  What happened then?



6. What was asked of Jesus when the word spread of what He had done?



7. What did the man who had been demon possessed request?  What did Jesus tell him to do?



8. Who did Jesus encounter when they crossed back to the other side?  What was this man’s problem?



9. Whom did they encounter on the way to solving this problem?  Describe the extent of her problem?  What did she do to receive healing?  Did Jesus know?



10. What final statement does Jesus make to this woman?



11. What word came concerning Jairus’s daughter?  What suggestion did they make?  What did Jesus say when he overheard the conversation?



12. Who did Jesus take with Him?  What did he tell the mourners concerning the girl?  How did they react?



13. What did he say to the girl?  What instruction did He give the witnesses?



Mark chapter 6

1. What place did Jesus return to?  On what day?  Where did He go?  What did He do?  What was the crowd’s reaction?



2. What statement concerning a prophet did Jesus make?



3. What astonished Jesus?



4. What does Jesus do with the 12?  What were they to take (or not take) with them?  Where would they stay?  What were they to do if a city rejected the message?  Why?



5. Who had heard about the things surrounding Jesus?  What kinds of things had he heard?  Why would that be alarming to Herod?



6. What were the events surrounding the death of John the baptizer?



7. Why did Jesus feel compassion for the multitude?



8. What problem arose at this scene?  What was His disciples answer to the problem?  How did Jesus resolve the problem?



9. What familiar miracle occurs in verse 48?  What portion of this account does Mark not mention?  Why were they so astonished and in fear of Jesus?

Mark chapter 7

1. Who had come from Jerusalem?  What accusation did they bring against Jesus and His disciples?  What had they based this accusation on?  What did Jesus call them?  What example of this problem did he use?



2. What did Jesus say would defile a man?



3. Why did Jesus get frustrated with His disciples?



4. What region did Jesus then travel to?  What had he hoped concerning His whereabouts?  Did it work?



5. Who came to Jesus and wanted her daughter healed?  What does this conversation about giving crumbs to children and dogs mean?



6. What did Jesus do in Decapolis?



Mark chapter 8

1. What does Jesus do again in the beginning of this chapter?



2. What did the Pharisees want from Jesus?  What irony do you find in their request?



3. What warning does Jesus give His disciples while in the boat?  Why did they think He said that?  Why did He say it?



4. Whom did He heal in Bethsaida?  What charge did He give?



5. What question does Jesus ask His disciples?  What responses did He get?  What did Peter say?



6. What did Jesus then tell them about His future?  How did Peter react?



7. What challenge does Jesus set before all who would be His disciples?  What would that include?



Mark chapter 9

1. What great prophecy does Jesus make at the beginning of this chapter?  What implications does that statement have?



2. What 3 disciples encounter an interesting moment with Jesus?  Describe what happened?  What does it mean?



3. What was going on when Jesus returned to the other disciples?  What did He ask?



4. What response came from the crowd?  How did Jesus react?  What did he then ask to be done?  What happened?  What question did Jesus ask of the man who spoke up from the crowd?  What catalyst did Jesus teach was necessary?



5. What did the boy look like when the demon came out?  What question did His disciples ask Jesus?



6. What did Jesus teach the immediate disciples when they gained some privacy?



7. What discussion had occurred among His disciples on the way to Capernaum?  What example did Jesus use to rebuke them?



8. What principle does Jesus teach in verse 38-39?



9. What should we do in order to avoid sin?


Mark chapter 10

1. What discussion introduces this chapter?  How did the topic come up?  What basic principle is taught?



2. What happened involving the little children?  What principle does Jesus teach from this scene?



3. What question does a rich man ask Jesus?  What response does Jesus give?  What was the man’s reaction?



4. How hard is it to get into heaven for those who trust in riches?  What question is asked?  What is Jesus’ response?



5. What happens for those who sacrifice their lives in service to Christ?



6. What does Jesus again tell them concerning His future?  What details does He give?



7. What do James and John ask Jesus?  How did they begin their request?  What lesson does Jesus teach?



8. What importance would you attribute to the detail given concerning the blind man healed in Jericho?



9. What made the blind man whole?


Mark chapter 11

1. What kind of entrance does Jesus have as he reenters Jerusalem?




2. What did Jesus find on His way out of Bethany?  What did He do?



3. What did Jesus find at the temple?  How did He react?



4. What did His disciples see in verse 20?  What lesson is taught?



5. What condition is placed in order to receive forgiveness?



6. What question was brought to Jesus as this chapter closes?  How did He respond?


Mark chapter 12

1. What parable introduces this chapter?  What is the implication of the parable?



2. What did the Jews want to do after hearing this teaching?  Why didn’t they do it?



3. What question did the Pharisees try to trap Jesus with?  What was His response?



4. Who brought the next question?  Who were they?  What was their question?  What was the answer?



5. Who is the next group (representative) to bring a question?  What was their question?  What was the answer?



6. What question does Jesus ask?  Who understood Jesus?



7. What warning does Jesus give?



8. What real life example does Jesus use at the conclusion of the chapter?  What lesson is learned?



Mark chapter 13

1. What prediction does Jesus make?



2. What questions are asked of Jesus privately?  What warning does Jesus give before he answers?



3. What kinds of problems would they encounter before the destruction of Jerusalem?  What Old Testament prophet is referenced?  What should people do if they see the destruction coming?



4. Does Jesus speak of any future event?  If so what is it?



5. What parable is used by Jesus?  What warning does He use to conclude this section?




Mark chapter 14

1. What is being plotted?  Who is plotting it?



2. What happens at the house of Simon the leper?  How did some react within themselves?  What did Jesus say?



3. Who takes the initial betrayal steps?



4. What feast are Jesus and His disciples honoring?  What information saddens His disciples?  How did they react?



5. What is instituted during this feast?



6. What is told concerning Peter?  How did He react?



7. Describe what Jesus does in the Garden?  Who was with Him?  How did they handle themselves?



8. How did His captors know who He was?  What did one of His disciples do in response to the threat?



9. What did His disciples do when they took Jesus away?



10. What unusual event does Mark record for us?



11. Where did they take Jesus?  What did some rise up and do against Jesus?  Did Jesus respond?  What did the high priest finally ask?  What did Jesus say?



12. What did some begin to do to Jesus after the high priests reaction?



13. What predicted event occurs at the end of the chapter?




Mark chapter 15

1. Whom do the Jews bring Jesus to?  Describe the questions that are asked and the response of Jesus?



2. What did Pilate try to do to get out of this circumstance?  Did it work?



3. What did the soldiers do to Jesus?



4. Who was compelled to help Jesus with His cross?  What do we know about this man from these verses?



5. Describe the events that occurred at the 6th hour?  What did Jesus say?  What events were occurring simultaneously?



6. Who asked Pilate for the body of Jesus?  What reaction did Pilate initially have?  What did they do to prepare to bury Jesus?  Where was he buried?



Mark chapter 16

1. Who came to the tomb?  When and why?  What did they find?



2. Who was the first to see Jesus after His resurrection?  What did she do then?



3. What did Jesus rebuke when he sat at table with his 11 remaining apostles?



4. What commission is given?  What would it include?



5. Would there be any proof to validate their message?



6.  What then happened to Jesus?  What did His disciples go and do?