Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem and Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him. And he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because […]

Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand. And they watched Jesus, to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him. And he said to the man with the withered hand, “Come here.” And he said to them, “Is it lawful on […]

One Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and as they made their way, his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. And the Pharisees were saying to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did, when he […]

Friends, today is the 500th bLOG published since April 2019. On behalf of Godzilla, The Flying Scotsman, and many others, “Thank you for joining me on this adventure!” The Hitchhiker No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the […]

Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?” And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom […]

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? And as he reclined at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax […]

We begin our third week of daily reflections on Mark’s Gospel. I remind you that these are my reflections and are by no means exhaustive expositions. All Called by Jesus He went out again beside the sea, and all the crowd was coming to him, and he was teaching them. And as he passed by, […]