Day 42: October 23, 2025 – Deuteronomy 5 and Mark 3-7

We begin our reading today with the 10 Commandments in Deuteronomy, providing us with a recap of what we saw live in Leviticus. Again, this is a bit of a recap by Moses to the people of Israel basically explaining to them, and to himself, why they and he cannot enter the promised land. We then transition to the bulk of the life of Jesus in Mark, which is short enough to give us a lot of material in these 5 chapters. Consistently in Mark Jesus tells the people to not tell others about his powers or his miracles.

There is a constant theme in this Scripture of Jesus being surrounded by mobs of people who press in on him and so he looks for places to go and to get away from them. I often think of ministry and how there are seasons and times in ministry when there are crowds who want to be a part of the ministry that is taking place, and then, inexplicably, those crowds disappear. Jesus sees that in his hometown of Nazareth where he was amazed that the lack of faith of the people. That is something that you can feel and that you can tell is whether a people is following what you are saying and doing their “homework” or not.