Commentary on Mark 9:30-37
Last week’s Gospel lection, Mark 8:27-38, jabbed three sharp barbs: Jesus’ prediction of his suffering, [...]

Last week’s Gospel lection, Mark 8:27-38, jabbed three sharp barbs: Jesus’ prediction of his suffering, [...]

Brother, afar from your Savior today, Risking your soul for the things that decay, Oh, [...]

Mark has juxtaposed stories in 7:24-30 and 7:31-37 as mirror images of each other. Both [...]

At least one part of this passage is straightforward, although [...]

Structurally, complaints or quarrels supply a punctuation mark between subsections of this text (for example, [...]

In this section of the Bread Discourse, the dispute “chews” on Jesus’ flesh. Was this [...]

The reading begins with one of the most well-known “I [...]

Our narrator hints that even though the crowd “finds” Jesus, they don’t comprehend who he [...]

Our narrator places the Bread Discourse in the middle of the Book of Signs (John [...]

The disciples return from the mission (Mark 6:30-31) Mark reported [...]