# Mark 06 📖: Jesus Feeds Five Thousand [[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[-Mark Overview]] | [[Mark 05]] | [[Mark 07]] > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] > [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights]] > [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] > [[#✝️ Christ in This Chapter]] > [[#🔎 Key Observations / 🛟 Life Application]] > [[#💬 Discussion Questions]] > [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🔗 Related Passages]] > [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] > [[#📂 Internal Notes]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) #### Rejection at Nazareth **Principle**: Sometimes those who are closet to you will be the last to see what God is doing in and through you. [[#Verse 01.]] Now Jesus left that place and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him.  [[#Verse 02.]] When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue. Many who heard him were astonished, saying, “Where did he get these ideas? And what is this wisdom that has been given to him? What are these miracles that are done through his hands?  [[#Verse 03.]] Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And aren’t his sisters here with us?” And so they took offense at him.  [[#Verse 04.]] Then Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown, and among his relatives, and in his own house.” [[#Verse 05.]] He was not able to do a miracle there, except to lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them.  [[#Verse 06.]] And he was amazed because of their unbelief. Then he went around among the villages and taught. #### Sending Out the Twelve Apostles [[Matthew 10]], [[Luke 10]] **Principle**: Be a contributor, no consumer. [[#Verse 07.]] Jesus called the twelve and began to send them out two by two. He gave them authority over the unclean spirits.  [[#Verse 08.]] He instructed them to take nothing for the journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in their belts—  [[#Verse 09.]] and to put on sandals but not to wear two tunics.  [[#Verse 10.]] He said to them, “Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave the area.  [[#Verse 11.]] If a place will not welcome you or listen to you, as you go out from there, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”  [[#Verse 12.]] So they went out and preached that all should repent.  [[#Verse 13.]] They cast out many demons and anointed many sick people with olive oil and healed them. #### The Death of John the Baptist **Principle**: Bad people do bad things, but God still prevails. [[#Verse 14.]] Now King Herod heard this, for Jesus’ name had become known. Some were saying, “John the baptizer has been raised from the dead, and because of this, miraculous powers are at work in him.”  [[#Verse 15.]] Others said, “He is Elijah.” Others said, “He is a prophet, like one of the prophets from the past.”  [[#Verse 16.]] But when Herod heard this, he said, “John, whom I beheaded, has been raised!”  [[#Verse 17.]] For Herod himself had sent men, arrested John, and bound him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because Herod had married her.  [[#Verse 18.]] For John had repeatedly told Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”  [[#Verse 19.]] So Herodias nursed a grudge against him and wanted to kill him. But she could not  [[#Verse 20.]] because Herod stood in awe of John and protected him, since he knew that John was a righteous and holy man. When Herod heard him, he was thoroughly baffled, and yet he liked to listen to John. [[#Verse 21.]] But a suitable day came, when Herod gave a banquet on his birthday for his court officials, military commanders, and leaders of Galilee.  [[#Verse 22.]] When his daughter Herodias came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his dinner guests. The king said to the girl, “Ask me for whatever you want and I will give it to you.”  [[#Verse 23.]] He swore to her, “Whatever you ask I will give you, up to half my kingdom.”  [[#Verse 24.]] So she went out and said to her mother, “What should I ask for?” Her mother said, “The head of John the baptizer.”  [[#Verse 25.]] Immediately she hurried back to the king and made her request: “I want the head of John the Baptist on a platter immediately.”  [[#Verse 26.]] Although it grieved the king deeply, he did not want to reject her request because of his oath and his guests.  [[#Verse 27.]] So the king sent an executioner at once to bring John’s head, and he went and beheaded John in prison.  [[#Verse 28.]] He brought his head on a platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother.  [[#Verse 29.]] When John’s disciples heard this, they came and took his body and placed it in a tomb. #### The Feeding of the Five Thousand [[Matthew 14]], [[Luke 09]], [[John 06]] **Principle**: Jesus uses small and willing obedience to do great things. [[#Verse 30.]] Then the apostles gathered around Jesus and told him everything they had done and taught. [[#Verse 31.]] He said to them, “Come with me privately to an isolated place and rest a while” (for many were coming and going, and there was no time to eat).  [[#Verse 32.]] So they went away by themselves in a boat to some remote place.  [[#Verse 33.]] But many saw them leaving and recognized them, and they hurried on foot from all the towns and arrived there ahead of them.  [[#Verse 34.]] As Jesus came ashore he saw the large crowd and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he taught them many things. [[#Verse 35.]] When it was already late, his disciples came to him and said, “This is an isolated place and it is already very late. [[#Verse 36.]] Send them away so that they can go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy something for themselves to eat.”  [[#Verse 37.]] But he answered them, “You give them something to eat.” And they said, “Should we go and buy bread for 200 silver coins and give it to them to eat?”  [[#Verse 38.]] He said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.” When they found out, they said, “Five—and two fish.”  [[#Verse 39.]] Then he directed them all to sit down in groups on the green grass.  [[#Verse 40.]] So they reclined in groups of hundreds and fifties.  [[#Verse 41.]] He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. He gave them to his disciples to serve the people, and he divided the two fish among them all.  [[#Verse 42.]] They all ate and were satisfied,  [[#Verse 43.]] and they picked up the broken pieces and fish that were left over, twelve baskets full.  [[#Verse 44.]] Now there were 5,000 men who ate the bread. #### Walking on Water [[Matthew 14]], [[John 06]] **Principle**: Nothing can stop Jesus from getting to us. [[#Verse 45.]] Immediately Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he dispersed the crowd.  [[#Verse 46.]] After saying goodbye to them, he went to the mountain to pray.  [[#Verse 47.]] When evening came, the boat was in the middle of the sea and he was alone on the land.  [[#Verse 48.]] He saw them straining at the oars, because the wind was against them. As the night was ending, he came to them walking on the sea, for he wanted to pass by them.  [[#Verse 49.]] When they saw him walking on the water they thought he was a ghost. They cried out, [[#Verse 50.]] for they all saw him and were terrified. But immediately he spoke to them: “Have courage! It is I. Do not be afraid.”  [[#Verse 51.]] Then he went up with them into the boat, and the wind ceased. They were completely astonished,  [[#Verse 52.]] because they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened. #### Healing the Sick **Principle**: Where Jesus is, healing follows. [[#Verse 53.]] After they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret and anchored there.  [[#Verse 54.]] As they got out of the boat, people immediately recognized Jesus.  [[#Verse 55.]] They ran through that whole region and began to bring the sick on mats to wherever he was rumored to be.  [[#Verse 56.]] And wherever he would go—into villages, towns, or countryside—they would place the sick in the marketplaces, and would ask him if they could just touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed. ## 📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ###### Verse 19. ###### Verse 20. ###### Verse 21. ###### Verse 22. ###### Verse 23. ###### Verse 24. ###### Verse 25. ###### Verse 26. ###### Verse 27. ###### Verse 28. ###### Verse 29. ###### Verse 30. - One of the only miracles that show up in all the Gospels. ###### Verse 31. ###### Verse 32. ###### Verse 33. ###### Verse 34. ###### Verse 35. ###### Verse 36. ###### Verse 37. ###### Verse 38. ###### Verse 39. ###### Verse 40. ###### Verse 41. ###### Verse 42. ###### Verse 43. ###### Verse 44. ###### Verse 45. ###### Verse 46. ###### Verse 47. ###### Verse 48. ###### Verse 49. ###### Verse 50. ###### Verse 51. ###### Verse 52. ###### Verse 53. ###### Verse 54. ###### Verse 55. ###### Verse 56. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights 1. Mark 6:3 calls Jesus "the carpenter." The Greek word *tekton* can describe a craftsman who builds with wood or stone. 2. Mark 6:3 names four brothers of Jesus: James, Joses, Judas, and Simon. James later led the church in Jerusalem, and Judas is traditionally linked with the letter of Jude. 3. Jesus sent the Twelve out two by two (6:7), fitting the Law's standard of two witnesses (Deuteronomy 19:15). 4. Shaking the dust off one's feet (6:11) was a sign of protest. Some Jews did this when leaving Gentile territory. 5. The Herod in this chapter is Herod Antipas, son of Herod the Great. He ruled Galilee and Perea as a tetrarch, not as an official king. 6. The Jewish historian Josephus also records that Herod Antipas imprisoned and executed John the Baptist, at the fortress of Machaerus east of the Dead Sea. 7. Herodias had been the wife of Herod's half-brother Philip (6:17). Marrying a brother's wife while he was alive was forbidden by Leviticus 18:16. 8. Two hundred denarii (6:37) was roughly eight months' wages for a day laborer. 9. The feeding of the five thousand is the only miracle, apart from the resurrection, recorded in all four Gospels. 10. The "fourth watch of the night" (6:48) was roughly 3 to 6 in the morning, following the Roman system of four night watches. ## 🧠 Chapter Summary > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## ✝️ Christ in This Chapter Christ is the compassionate Shepherd who feeds His sheep (6:34) and the Lord who walks on the sea and says, "It is I" (6:50). He is the Bread of Life who satisfies every hungry heart (John 6:35). ## 🔎 Key Observations / 🛟 Life Application > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## 💬 Discussion Questions 1. Jesus was rejected in His hometown, and their unbelief limited what they saw (6:5-6). How can familiarity with Jesus keep us from seeing Him clearly? 2. Jesus invited His tired disciples to come away and rest (6:31). What does healthy rest look like in a busy season of serving? 3. Jesus told the disciples, "You give them something to eat" (6:37). What need around you is Jesus asking you to bring to Him? ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - 📖 verse 4: A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and among his relatives. - 📖 verse 34: Jesus has compassion on the crowd because they are like sheep without a shepherd. - 📖 verse 50: Jesus calls to His frightened disciples to have courage and not be afraid, because it is He. ## 🔗 Related Passages - 🔗 [[John 01#Verse 11.|John 1:11]] - He came to His own, and they did not receive Him. - 🔗 [[Luke 09#Verse 01.|Luke 9:1-6]] - The Twelve are sent out. - 🔗 [[James 05#Verse 14.|James 5:14]] - Anointing the sick with oil. - 🔗 [[Leviticus 18#Verse 16.|Leviticus 18:16]] - The law against marrying a brother's wife. - 🔗 [[Ezekiel 34#Verse 05.|Ezekiel 34:5]] - Sheep scattered without a shepherd. - 🔗 [[2 Kings 04#Verse 42.|2 Kings 4:42-44]] - Elisha feeds a crowd with food left over. - 🔗 [[Job 09#Verse 08.|Job 9:8]] - God treads on the waves of the sea. ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection 📝 SOAP: [[Mark 06- SOAP|Trust the Lord]] ## 📂 Internal Notes