Mark in a Month Reading Schedule

A schedule for reading the Gospel of Mark in just over a month

Daily Readings in the Gospel of Mark

A 1:1–6:29 Jesus begins his ministry
1 ☐ 1:1–20 John the Baptist & the first followers
2 ☐ 1:21–39 Healing and casting out demons
3 ☐ 1:40–2:12 Two amazing healings
4 ☐ 2:13–22 Conflict with Pharisees
5 ☐ 2:23–3:6 Healings on the Sabbath
6 ☐ 3:7–19 12 disciples chosen so they could be sent out
7 ☐ 3:20–35 Hostility from religious leaders & family
8 ☐ 4:1–20 Parable of the sower
9 ☐ 4:21–34 Three more parables
10 ☐ 4:35–5:20 Displays of power
11 ☐ 5:21–43 Power to heal and raise the dead
12 ☐ 6:1–29 Disciples sent, & John the Baptist dies
B 6:30–8:21 Jesus goes beyond Moses, but they don’t understand
13 ☐ 6:30–56 Jesus feeds 5000 & walks on water
14 ☐ 7:1–23 Jesus’s commandments supersede Moses
15 ☐ 7:24–37 Goes to the Gentiles and does miracles
16 ☐ 8:1–21 Jesus feeds 4000, but the disciples are blind
C 8:22–10:52 Physical & spiritual blindness & sight
17 ☐ 8:22–9:1 Blindness and Sight
18 ☐ 9:2–29 Transfiguration & demon-possessed boy
19 ☐ 9:30–50 Radical Kingdom teaching
20 ☐ 10:1–31 The cost of the Kingdom
21 ☐ 10:32–52 Blindness and Sight
D 11:1–13:37 Jesus visits the Temple, predicting that he’ll replace it
22 ☐ 11:1–26 Jesus comes to the temple and finds no fruit
23 ☐ 11:27–12:12 Parable of the fruitless vineyard. Jesus is the true cornerstone
24 ☐ 12:13–27 Two attempts to trap Jesus with words
25 ☐ 12:28–44 Jesus responds, pointing out some good fruit
26 ☐ 13 Destruction is coming to the Temple, so stay alert!
E 14:1–16:8 Truly this man is the Son of God
27 ☐ 14:1–9 A woman comes to anoint Jesus
28 ☐ 14:10–31 Last supper, and betrayal
29 ☐ 14:32–52 Prayer and betrayal in Gethsemane
30 ☐ 14:53–72 Jesus is tried and Peter denies him
31 ☐ 15:1–20 Jesus is tried by Pilate
32 ☐ 15:21–41 Jesus is crucified and a centurion believes
33 ☐ 15:42–16:8 Women come to anoint Jesus, but he has been raised from the dead    
34 ☐ 16:9–20 Epilogue