Tag: gospel-of-st-mark

  • Preaching Paths 24 March 2024 Palm Sunday Yr B

    Sally A. Brown, Professor Emerita, Princeton Theological Seminary According to Mark 11:1-11, Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem a few days before Passover is undertaken with forethought. Mark devotes half of today’s lection to the matter of borrowing a “colt” for Jesus to ride. There is no need to invoke supernatural forces to account for the local…

  • First Sunday in Lent, 18th February 2024

    Mark 1:9-151:9 In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. 1:10 And just as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens torn apart and the Spirit descending like a dove on him. 1:11 And a voice came from heaven, “You are…

  • Preaching Paths 18 February 2024

    Sally A. Brown, Professor Emerita, Princeton Theological Seminary Most of the verses comprising today’s lection, Mark 1:9-15, are familiar. We’ve encountered vv.9-11, Jesus’ baptism and divine commission, on the Sunday of Baptism of Our Lord. John the Baptist’s arrest and the inauguration of Jesus’ preaching ministry were read on Epiphany 3B.  Today’s new material, vv…

  • Transfiguration Sunday, 11th February 2024 (Last Sunday before Lent)

    Mark 9:2-99:2 Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, 9:3 and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no one on earth could bleach them. 9:4 And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses,…

  • Preaching Paths 11 February 2024 Transfiguration Sunday

    Sally A. Brown, Professor Emerita, Princeton Theological Seminary Mark’s gospel presents the ministry of Jesus as the pivotal event in a two-tiered struggle for the triumph of the reign of God, fought on both an earthly plane and a heavenly one. Mark presents Jesus confronting Satanic temptation and evil spirits long before he contends with…