#12 - The Book of Mark - Who Is Jesus?
Mark 1:28 And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee. There is that word "immediately" again. The Gospel has arrived. It has been anointed and tested. "Straightway" he had called His disciples have been called and "straightway" they left their nets and followed. He "straightway" on the Sabbath entered the synagogue and taught with authority and further amazed the people by healing a man in the synagogue of an unclean spirit. It is not surprising that his fame spread abroad throughout Galilee. But I wonder what they believed about Jesus. Did they think Him just another magic man? Was He just a highly intelligent theologian? Who was He? I would imagine many different people had many different ideas about who this man call Jesus was? We have the Bible. God speaks with authority there. We have seen God work in our lives and in the lives of others. We ...