Expository Thoughts on the Gospels

Volume 2: Mark

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J. C. Ryle

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Weight	0.512 kg
Dimensions	22.3 × 14.3 × 2.0 cm
ISBN	9781848711297
Binding	Cloth-bound, eBook (ePub & Kindle), Cloth-bound & eBook (ePub & Kindle)
Format	Book
Original Pub Date	1857
Banner Pub Date	Jul 1, 2012
Topic	No topic listed
Scripture	Mark
Set	Expository Thoughts on the Gospels (Clothbound)
Page Count	352

Book Description

First published in 1857, Mark was the second book to appear in J. C. Ryle’s series of Expository Thoughts on the Gospels.

The earliest of the Gospel narratives to be written, Mark, says Ryle, ‘is singularly full of precious facts about the Lord Jesus, narrated in a simple, terse, pithy, and condensed style’. Those last four adjectives could well be used to describe Ryle’s own comments on the Gospel!

In one of the occasional explanatory notes, he quotes the following remarks of Rudolf Stier:

St Mark has the special gift of terse brevity, and of graphic painting in wonderful combination. While on every occasion he compresses the discourses, works, and history into the simplest possible kernel, he on the other hand, unfolds the scenes more clearly than St Matthew does, who excels in the discourses. Not only do single incidents become in his hands complete pictures, but even when he is very brief, he often gives, with one pencil stroke, something new and peculiarly his own.

These Expository Thoughts on Mark do full justice to such an inspired text, and are full of encouragement, wisdom and straightforward practical application. May they continue to fulfil Ryle’s desire to lead the reader ‘to Christ and faith in him, to repentance and holiness, to the Bible and to prayer’.

Table of Contents Expand ↓

1:1-8	The gospel begun by John the Baptist’s ministry	1
1:9-20	Christ’s baptism, temptation, and calling of his first disciples	5
1:21-34	An unclean spirit cast out—Peter’s wife’s mother healed	9
1:35-39	Christ’s private prayers—purpose of Christ’s coming into the world	13
1:40-45	A leper cleansed	17
2:1-12	Privileges of Capernaum—one sick of the palsy healed	21
2:13-22	Calling of Levi—Christ the physician of souls—new wine and old bottles	24
2:23-28	The right view of the sabbath day expounded	29
3:1-12	The man with the withered hand healed on the sabbath day—Christ watched by his enemies and grieved	34
3:13-21	Ordination of the twelve apostles—Christ’s zeal misunderstood by his friends	38
3:22-30	Warning against divisions—fulness of gospel forgiveness—eternal damnation	42
3:31-55	Christ’s brother, and sister, and mother	47
4:1-20	Parable of the sower	49
4:21-25	Light not to be put under a bushel—importance of hearing, and of using what we hear	54
4:26-29	Parable of the seed cast into the ground	57
4:30-34	Parable of the grain of mustard seed	61
4:35-41	Storm on the Sea of Galilee miraculously calmed	65
5:1-17	A devil cast out in the country of the Gadarenes	69
5:18-20	The man that had been possessed with the devil sent home to his friends	74
5:21-34	The woman with an issue of blood healed	77
5:35-43	The ruler’s daughter raised to life	82
6:1-6	Christ in his own country—the sin of unbelief	84
6:7-13	The first sending forth of the apostles to preach	89
6:14-29	John the Baptist put to death by Herod	92
6:30-34	The apostles’ return from preaching—the importance of rest—Christ’s compassion	97
6:35-46	The multitude fed with five loaves and two fishes	100
6:47-56	Christ walking on the water	103
7:1-13	The religion of the Pharisees	106
7:14-23	The heart the true source of impurity	111
7:24-30	The Syrophoenician woman whose daughter had an unclean spirit	114
7:31-37	Healing of one who was deaf and dumb	117
8:1-13	The multitude fed with seven loaves—unbelief of the Pharisees	121
8:14-21	Warning against false doctrine—slowness to understand in disciples	124
8:22-26	The blind man at Bethsaida healed	127
8:27-33	Peter’s noble confession of faith—Peter’s ignorance of the necessity of Christ’s death	129
8:34-38	Necessity of self-denial—value of the soul— danger of being ashamed of Christ	133
9:1-13	Christ’s transfiguration	137
9:14-29	The boy with an unclean spirit healed	141
9:30-37	The crucifixion predicted—humility enforced	146
9:38-50	A tolerant spirit enjoined—the necessity of self-sacrifice—the reality of hell	149
10:1-12	The right view of marriage expounded	154
10:13-16	Young children brought to Christ—a plea for infant baptism	159
10:17-27	The young man who had great possessions— Christ’s love to sinners—the peril of being rich	163
10:28-34	Encouragement to forsake all for Christ’s sake— Christ’s foreknowledge of his own sufferings	166
10:35-45	Ignorance of the sons of Zebedee—lowliness and self-devotion enforced by Christ’s example	170
10:46-52	Blind Bartimæus healed	175
11:1-11	Christ’s public entry into Jerusalem, and voluntary poverty	178
11:12-21	Christ’s manhood—the fig-tree cursed—the temple cleansed	182
11:22-26	Importance of faith—necessity of a forgiving spirit	186
11:27-33	Spiritual blindness of the chief priests and scribes—mental dishonesty of prejudiced unbelievers	190
12:1-12	Parable of the wicked husbandmen	194
12:13-17	The tribute, and the respective claims of Cæsar and of God	198
12:18-27	The Sadducees, and the doctrine of the resurrection	201
12:28-34	The scribes, and the great commandment of all	206
12:35-44	Christ in the Psalms—warning against hypocrisy—the widow’s mite	209
13:1-8	Beginning of the prophecy on the Mount of Olives	213
13:9-13	What Christ’s people must expect between his first and second advents	218
13:14-23	The lawfulness of using means to provide for our safety—privileges of the elect	222
13:24-31	Second coming of Christ described—importance of observing signs of the times	225
13:32-37	Uncertainty of the time of Christ’s second advent — duty of watchfulness	229
14:1-9	Crafty designs of the chief priests overruled— anointing in the house at Bethany	233
14:10-16	Judas Iscariot undertakes to betray Christ for money—connection between time of passover and time of crucifixion	237
14:17-25	Institution of the Lord’s supper	241
14:26-31	Christ’s foreknowledge of his disciples’ weakness—self-ignorance of believers	246
14:32-42	Agony in the garden—infirmity of the apostles	249
14:43-52	Christ taken prisoner by his enemies	253
14:53-65	Christ condemned before the high priest	257
14:66-72	Peter denies Christ three times	261
15:1-15	Christ condemned before Pilate	264
15:16-32	Christ mocked and crucified	268
15:33-38	Christ’s death, and signs accompanying it	271
15:39-47	Christ’s burial	275
16:1-8	The power of love to Christ—the stone rolled away—mercy to backsliders	279
16:9-14	Proofs of the resurrection—kindness to great sinners—weakness of believers	282
16:15-18	The apostles’ commission—the terms of the gospel—the promise to faithful labourers	286
16:19-20	Christ’s ascension to the right hand of God—the word of faithful preachers confirmed by signs	289

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