As we reach the end of the lectionary year, we are going back to the beginning, to where we started in the Gospel of Mark! This reading overlaps with some of the earlier ones in the year, but also patches in the verses that we previously missed out.
As usual with Mark, his account is very compressed—so we need to attend carefully to every word. And when we do, we find riches of theological thinking as well as Old Testament allusion. And all the ideas here are hints at what is to come as the gospel unfolds—things we have been discovering all through the year.
Come and join Ian and James as they explore these questions!
Full written commentary behind the discussion can be found in the following article.
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Just listened – thank you. A question: are you suggesting that Peter and Andrew are of gentile background? The Cornelius incident immediately comes to mind – how does that fit with Peter being of gentile origin himself?
No, I don’t think so. Peter is clearly a Jew. But he comes from a Greek cultural context, and the two sets of pairs point to something that unfolds in the gospel as it progresses.
Thanks.