In Marks Gospel, which is the Gospel we are drawing today’s passage from, the writer says a few times that Jesus taught either the crowds or the disciples. Yet when you look at these passages where Jesus teaches the crowds Mark mentions that Jesus taught people and but rarely does he record what he taught them. It would appear that Mark is more likely to record how Jesus acted rather than what he said. It would appear that through these actions Mark most often shows Jesus’ teaching.
Today we look at two such actions; interestingly they both teach the same thing – well sort of. At our gathering I read them and asked questions so that we could all could participate (even vicariously) in the process of discovering what it is that Jesus is telling us (or that Mark is telling us that Jesus is showing us!) (more…)
The words of a very minor prophet 