"All of this background is very interesting and helpful, but my original question remains: Where is the Good News?
Perhaps there is none, and this is precisely Mark's point. Just in case we are getting too excited and thinking this business of being a disciple of Jesus is going to be a piece of cake, is going to be a story of ever increasing fame, miracles, and wonders, Mark gives a story of a good man being executed because of weakness, capriciousness, and vengence."
Year B, Season of Pentecost
Proper 10, Ordinary Time 15
Sunday Between July 10 and July 16 Inclusive
6th Sunday After Pentecost 2009
Read the passage: The Message or The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV).
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Of all the sections of the Bible that the creators of the Lectionary choose to leave out, it is a puzzle to me then why they included this. Where is the Good News? How does our hearing of it edify us? Deepen our being the church?
As usual, Malina and Rohrbaugh (see link in left-hand sidebar) provide helpful historical background.
