Gospel

Commentary on Mark 10:46-52

Bartimaeus is the paragon of faith in Mark’s Gospel, which makes it more than mildly [...]

Commentary on Mark 10:35-45

This passage plays a key role in the Gospel according to Mark’s understanding of why [...]

Commentary on Mark 10:17-31 

Nearly irresistible is the urge to soften this passage’s demands. That urge has been around [...]

Commentary on Mark 10:2-16

Mark’s original readers probably found Jesus’ uncompromising statements about divorce and remarriage as challenging and [...]

Commentary on Mark 9:38-50

Coming from the villages of Caesarea Philippi where Jesus first announced his suffering, rejection, death, [...]

Commentary on Mark 9:30-37

This is the third week of our “What if?” approach to texts from Mark. We’ve [...]

Commentary on Mark 8:27-38

Last week, we began a three week exploration of the question: “What if?“ A big [...]

Commentary on Mark 7:24-37

In the next three weeks, we’ll look at three texts from Mark in which a [...]

Commentary on Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

Three things right off the bat: First, no jokes about [...]

Commentary on John 6:56-69

For the fifth Sunday in a row we find ourselves in John 6, but as [...]