Mark 9:14

Plain English Version

They came back down the hill, and they found Jesus’s other followers arguing with the Jewish law teachers. There were lots of people standing around.

Cross References

Mark 11:28

They asked Jesus straight, “Who told you to hunt all those people out of God’s ceremony house? What big boss said that you can do that?”

Mark 12:14

They said to Jesus, “Teacher, we know that you always want to do the right thing, and you always say true words. You talk to everyone the same way, people that are important and people that are not important. You always teach God’s words the right way. Well, we have a question about the Roman government bosses over our country. Is it right or wrong for us Jews to pay tax money to them?”

Mark 2:6

But some of the Jewish law teachers didn’t like Jesus saying that. Those law teachers were thinking,

Acts 19:8

For the next 3 months, Paul went to the meetings that the Jewish people had in their meeting house in Ephesus, and he talked strongly to the people there. He tried to get them to understand how God takes people into his family.