Eyes and ears for Jesus
Mark 8:14-21
Published June 1st, 2012
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-John presents us with a situation in which Jesus took opportunity, as He did many times to use it to teach His disciples about a spiritual matter. This one was a very important one. He cautioned them, “Watch out, beware.” Jesus used the leaven as an illustration or a shadow of the hypocrisy of the Pharisees and Herod. The disciples did not understand that the Master was speaking in spiritual terms. They were set up on earth as their default language and life. -God gave us eyes and ears in our bodies to see and hear material things, but as John Piper says the primary reason why He gave us these members of our bodies was to be a shadow of a greater reality. God gave us eyes and ears in our hearts to see and hear the spiritual things, to perceive Him, to understand His language (v. 17) and to remember His great deeds (v. 18-19). -Having your heart hardened means not to see, to hear, nor to remember what God had conquered for us in Jesus. So a good exercise for keeping us from hardened hearts is to try to look hard and hear with attention—I should say—meditation, and to make an effort to remember what our great Savior has done for the glory of His grace to us through Jesus. -Father, give us eyes to see and ears to hear, to perceive, to understand and to remember what a great Savior we have in Jesus.
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Mark 8:14-21
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Now they had forgotten to bring bread,
Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Y se habían olvidado de tomar panes;
and they had only one loaf with them in the boat.
y no tenían consigo en la barca sino sólo un pan.
And he cautioned them, saying, "Watch out;
Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Y El les encargaba diciendo: ¡Tened cuidado!
beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod."
Guardaos de la levadura de los fariseos y de la levadura de Herodes.
And they began discussing with one another the fact that they had no bread.
Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Y ellos discutían entre sí que no tenían panes.
And Jesus, aware of this, said to them, "Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread?
Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Dándose cuenta Jesús, les dijo*: ¿Por qué discutís que no tenéis pan?
Do you not yet perceive or understand?
¿Aún no comprendéis ni entendéis?
Are your hearts hardened?
¿Tenéis el corazón endurecido?
Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear? And do you not remember?
Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Teniendo ojos, ¿no veis? Y teniendo oidos, ¿no ois?
When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?"
Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ¿No recordáis cuando partí los cinco panes entre los cinco mil? ¿Cuántas cestas llenas de pedazos recogisteis?
They said to him, "Twelve."
Y ellos le dijeron*: Doce.
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"And the seven for the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?"
Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Y cuando partí los siete panes entre los cuatro mil, ¿cuántas canastas llenas de los pedazos recogisteis?
And they said to him, "Seven."
Y ellos le dijeron*: Siete.
And he said to them, "Do you not yet understand?"
Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Y les dijo: ¿Aún no entendéis?
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