Bible Studies

We hope you find our 'Word in Time' Bible studies support you in recognising God in Scripture, and the world around you.

Each week’s studies are written by volunteers across the Connexion (you can read the author’s biography after each study). They follow the lectionary of the Methodist Prayer Handbook. You may additionally be interested in our Prayer of the Day, also from the Methodist Prayer Handbook.

If you would like to write for A Word in Time, please email wit@methodistchurch.org.uk

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This week's theme: Apostolic Witness

"He was hungry. Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see whether perhaps he would find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the seasno for figs. He said to it, 'May no one ever eat fruit from you again.'" (vv. 12b-14)
Mark 11:12-25
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"By what authority are you doing these things? Who gave you this authority to do them?" (v. 28)
Mark 11:27-33
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"Jesus said to them, 'I will ask you one question; answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.'" (v. 29)
Mark 11:27-33
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"When they realised that he had told this parable against them, they wanted to arrest him, but they feared the crowd. So they left him and went away." (v. 12)
Mark 12:1-11
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“This was the Lord’s doing, and it is amazing in our eyes?” (v. 11)
Mark 12:1-11
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“Have you not read this scripture: ‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is amazing in our eyes’?” (vv. 10-11)
Mark 12:1-12
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"When the season came, he sent a servant to the tenants to collect from them his share of the produce of the vineyard. But they seized him, and beat him, and sent him away empty-handed." (vv. 2-3)
Mark 12:1-12
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“Jesus said to them, ‘Give to the emperor the things that are the emperor’s, and to God the things that are God’s.’ And they were utterly amazed at him.” (v. 17)
Mark 12:13-17
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"Give to the emperor the things that are the emperor's, and to God the things that are God's." (v. 17)
Mark 12:13-17
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“He is God not of the dead, but of the living.” (v. 27)
Mark 12:18-34
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"Then the scribe said to him, 'You are right, Teacher; you have truly said that "he is one, and besides him there is no other"; and "to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength", and "to love one's neighbour as oneself," – this is much more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices'." (v.32-33)
Mark 12:28-34
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"One of the scribes ... asked him, 'Which commandment is the first of all?' Jesus answered, 'The first is, "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one; you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength." The second is this, "You shall love your neighbour as yourself." There is no other commandment greater than these.'" (v.28-31)
Mark 12:28-34
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