Focused Passage

Mark 8:11-13

Seeing Jesus Clearly: Bread, Blindness, Confession, Cross, and Discipleship

Mark 8 moves from Jesus' compassionate provision for a hungry multitude, to Pharisaic sign-demanding unbelief, to disciple dullness about bread, to a staged healing of blindness, to Peter's confession, to Jesus' first passion prediction, and finally to the call for cross-bearing discipleship.

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11Then the Pharisees came and began to argue with Jesus, testing Him by demanding from Him a sign from heaven.

12Jesus sighed deeply in His spirit and said, “Why does this generation demand a sign? Truly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation.”

13And He left them, got back into the boat, and crossed to the other side.

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Verse 11

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ThenΚαὶG2532ConjunctiontheοἱG3588Article - Nominative Masculine PluralPhariseesΦαρισαῖοιG5330Noun - Nominative Masculine PluralcameἐξῆλθονG1831Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person PluralandκαὶG2532ConjunctionbeganἤρξαντοG756Verb - Aorist Indicative Middle - 3rd Person Pluralto argue withσυζητεῖνG4802Verb - Present Infinitive Active[Jesus]αὐτῷG846Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person SingulartestingπειράζοντεςG3985Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine PluralHimαὐτόνG846Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Singular[by] demandingζητοῦντεςG2212Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Pluralfromπαρ’G3844PrepositionHimαὐτοῦG846Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singulara signσημεῖονG4592Noun - Accusative Neuter SingularfromἀπὸG575Preposition-τοῦG3588Article - Genitive Masculine SingularheavenοὐρανοῦG3772Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Verse 12

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-ΚαὶG2532Conjunction[Jesus] sighed deeplyἀναστενάξαςG389Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine SingularinτῷG3588Article - Dative Neuter SingularHisαὐτοῦG846Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person SingularspiritπνεύματιG4151Noun - Dative Neuter Singular[and] saidλέγειG3004Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person SingularWhyΤίG5101Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Accusative Neuter Singular{does} thisαὕτηG3778Demonstrative Pronoun - Nominative Feminine Singular-G3588Article - Nominative Feminine SingulargenerationγενεὰG1074Noun - Nominative Feminine SingulardemandζητεῖG2212Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singulara signσημεῖονG4592Noun - Accusative Neuter SingularTrulyἀμὴνG281Hebrew WordI tellλέγωG3004Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person SingularyouὑμῖνG4771Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 2nd Person PluralnoεἰG1487ConjunctionsignσημεῖονG4592Noun - Nominative Neuter Singularwill be givenδοθήσεταιG1325Verb - Future Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Singularto thisταύτῃG3778Demonstrative Pronoun - Dative Feminine Singular-τῇG3588Article - Dative Feminine SingulargenerationγενεᾷG1074Noun - Dative Feminine Singular
Verse 13

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AndκαὶG2532ConjunctionHe leftἀφεὶςG863Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine SingularthemαὐτοὺςG846Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Pluralgot back into the boatἐμβὰςG1684Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular. . .πάλινG3825Adverb[and] crossedἀπῆλθενG565Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person SingulartoεἰςG1519PrepositiontheτὸG3588Article - Accusative Neuter Singularother sideπέρανG4008Adverb

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