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 ...