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Feasting on the Gospels: Mark is unavailable, but you can change that!

Feasting on the Gospels is an all-new, seven-volume preaching series that focuses on the most prominent and preached-on New Testament books, the four Gospels. Featuring never- before-published essays from a diverse and respected group of scholars and pastors, Feasting on the Gospels covers every single passage in the Gospels, making it a valuable resource for developing sermons. In the Gospel of...

“Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?” (v. 18). The people of Galilee notice a key difference between the followers of Jesus and the followers of John and the Pharisees. The latter practice fasting, but the former do not. It is not surprising that John’s followers practice fasting, as John comes “proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins” (Mark 1:4). Starting with the Day of Atonement
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