Mark’s story in the NT is full of role reversals. Those who think they see and hear are blind and deaf and those who are blind and deaf see and hear. A life of following Jesus is not about possessing people and things but about dispossession; being willing to let go, take risks, be courageous, and not to fear. To be great you have to be least and the first will be last and the last first. Those who want to save their lives will have to lose them for the sake of Jesus and the gospel. And in perhaps one of the most striking reversals of all it is the demons and unclean spirits who know who Jesus is, while the disciples don’t > go figure.
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That reminds me of what I noted about John's gospel: it is the literalists who miss the point. TAke, e.g., Nicodemus.
Thanks. Good point.
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