Passion Week

Seeing the Risen King

Read Mark 16:2-8 Shock! That’s an appropriate word to describe three women’s reaction when they arrive at a tomb that was both securely...

Three Women's Devotion

Read Mark 16:1 The Gospel writers have provided us readers with lots of details about the events of Passion week. We have followed...

In My Place, Condemned He Stood

Read Mark 15:1-47 One of the most important verses in Mark’s Gospel records Jesus saying, “For even the Son of Man came not to be served...

Jesus's Last Meal

Read Mark 14:12-72 If you knew you were going to die tomorrow, what would you want your last meal to be like? Who would you want with you...

The Rich Young Woman

Read Mark 14:1-11 If you owned a $30,000 bottle of perfume, what would you do with it? One woman who owned such an item chose to break it...

Jesus's Busiest Day

Read Mark 11:20-13:37 According to Mark’s account, Tuesday of Passion week was Jesus’s busiest day. The day begins and ends with him...

A Condemned Temple

Read Mark 11:12-19 Jesus’s disciples knew that the religious leaders of Jerusalem didn’t approve of Jesus, and they probably knew that...

Welcoming King Jesus to Jerusalem

Read Mark 11:1-11 As if it weren’t strange enough for Jesus to instruct his disciples to borrow a donkey for him to ride, we then find...