Daily Bread Pastor Mike Anderson

Click Here to Read or Listen to Mark 14   Enduring Word Commentary Jesus Anointed at Bethany 14 Now the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread were only two days away, and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were scheming to arrest Jesus secretly and kill him. 2 “But not during the festival,” they said, “or the people may riot.”  3 While he was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head. 4 Some of those present were saying indignantly to one another, “Why this waste of perfume? 5 It could have been sold for more than a year’s wages[a] and the money given to the poor.” And they rebuked her harshly. You will notice that many of the most important events in Jesus' life happen around the time of Jewish festivals. Today's reading is at the time of the Festival or Feast of the Unleavened Bread. The Feast of Unl...

Click Here to Read or Listen to Mark 13   Click Here to Read or Listen to Enduring Word Commentary The Destruction of the Temple and Signs of the End Times 13 As Jesus was leaving the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Look, Teacher! What massive stones! What magnificent buildings!”  2 “Do you see all these great buildings?” replied Jesus. “Not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”  3 As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John and Andrew asked him privately, 4 “Tell us, when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that they are all about to be fulfilled?” As one of his disciples was admiring the wonderful temple, Jesus let him know that what he saw in the would not be standing in the near future. Every stone of every building would be demolished. This came true in A.D. 70. Peter, James, and John checked in with Jesus to see if he would let them know a sign of when this was to ha...

Click Here To Listen to or Read Mark 12 Click Here to Read or Listen to Enduring Word Commentary The Parable of the Tenants 12 Jesus then began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the winepress and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place. 2 At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. 3 But they seized him, beat him and sent him away empty-handed. 4 Then he sent another servant to them; they struck this man on the head and treated him shamefully. 5 He sent still another, and that one they killed. He sent many others; some of them they beat, others they killed. Jesus begin to teach in parables again. Parables were short stories, which communicated principles of the Kingdom of God, through earthly analogies. They were analogies of things people would have been familiar with, in this case a vineyard. While we have to be ...

Mark 11 - NIV Enduring Word Commentary Jesus Comes to Jerusalem as King 11 As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and just as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. 3 If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it and will send it back here shortly.’” Today we begin to see the events leading to the cross. Jesus sent two disciples, we don't know which ones, to get a young colt that had never been ridden before. If anyone asked why they were taking the colt, they were to say, " the Lord needs it and will return it asap" . If I were a disciple, I might have been a little skeptical of Jesus' request. It is not every day you walk up and take someone's colt and give the reason for taking it,"Lord needs it!". With this, Jesus established that H...

Mark 10 - NIV Mark 10 - Enduring Word Commentary Divorce 10 Jesus then left that place and went into the region of Judea and across the Jordan. Again crowds of people came to him, and as was his custom, he taught them.  2 Some Pharisees came and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”  3 “What did Moses command you?” he replied.  4 They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.” 5 “It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law,” Jesus replied. 6 “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’[a] 7 ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,[b] 8 and the two will become one flesh.’[c] So they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”  10 When they were in the house again, the disciples asked Jesus about this. 11 He answered, “Anyone who divorces his wife and marries an...

Click Here to Read or Listen to Mark 9 Click Here to Read or Listen to Enduring Word Commentary 9 And he said to them, “Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see that the kingdom of God has come with power.” This may be a reference to what is coming next in this chapter, the Transfiguration, where 3 disciples saw Jesus' glory.  The Transfiguration 2 After six days Jesus took Peter, James and John with him and led them up a high mountain, where they were all alone. There he was transfigured before them. 3 His clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone in the world could bleach them. 4 And there appeared before them Elijah and Moses, who were talking with Jesus. Jesus gave Peter, James, and John a glimpse of his future glory. Some people wonder if people from the Old Testament will be in heaven, and this passage seems to indicates that they will. Elijah and Moses were two significant figures in the Old Testament. Elijah represented the p...