Re:Verse passage – Mark 6:7-13 (day three)
“They went out and preached that men should repent. And they were casting out many demons and were anointing with oil many sick people and healing them.”
The timeline can seem wrong in this passage. First comes Jesus, then comes the crucifixion, then comes the resurrection, then comes the Holy Spirit, and then comes the preaching in power. Right? That’s orderly and clean. Except that’s not what the Bible shows us here. The disciples begin seemingly ahead of everything else that was to come, so was this just a dress rehearsal? Repentance from what? To what? When Jesus taught in the synagogue from the book of Isaiah, he said to the people, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.” And so it is. Wait not for future things when Jesus is right here, right now. Go with him this moment.
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