Jesus had just explained how to inherit eternal life to His disciples and those who were present in giving up everything and coming and following Him as His disciples who walk and live the way He exampled and making Jesus Savior, Lord, and Teacher of our lives. Jesus, on their way to Jerusalem closer and closer to the cross of His crucifixion, with Jesus leading the way, He declares His final prediction of His death, burial, and resurrection and this time He explains it in more details than before.

As Jesus’s actions were speaking louder than His words throughout the book of Mark, we are given a front row seat of how Jesus handled sufferings and that to our astonishment and even our fear as the disciples and those who were following Jesus expressed. Giving up everything to come and follow Jesus is not without sufferings as exampled in the previous text and described and insinuated by Jesus of leaving home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for Jesus and His gospel— along with persecutions to inherit eternal life by grace through faith in the finished work of Jesus is a call and awareness of sufferings no matter how you look at it or brave and courageous you may presume to be. Following Jesus is choosing a mission and life of sufferings but also a life of resurrection, purpose, and eternal riches now and into eternity. Therefore, we must learn the hope that goes beyond the scope of sufferings through the actions that speak louder than the words of our great Savior and Suffering Messiah who is the King of kings and Lord of Lords.

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