This week BibleWorm reads the traditional Palm Sunday text in Mark 11:1-11 as well as the story of a woman anointing Jesus as told in Mark 14:3-9. We focus on the cries of the crowd as Jesus rides into Jerusalem, as they shout “Hosanna! Save us!” Their cry is urgent and hopeful but also quite vague about what, exactly, they need to be saved from. Sometimes, we think, this is the best prayer we can offer, not knowing how we can be saved but trusting that Jesus knows and can do as he promised. When we turn our attention to the anointing at Bethany, we find an unnamed woman doing the best she can to honor Jesus with extravagant love, using a year’s worth of wages to buy oil for his anointing. While others try to shame her for her wastefulness, Jesus lifts her up, making her gift even more profound than even she could ever have known. But that’s just the way Jesus is. He takes what we have—both our cries and our love—and transforms them in profound ways that we could never anticipate.
Episode 538 Unity in the Cross (Acts 18:1-14 & 1 Corinthians 1:10-18)
Episode 537 The Church in Thessalonica (Acts 17:1-9 and 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10)
Episode 536 The Disciples' First Miracle (Acts 3:1-10)
Episode 535 Waiting for the Spirit (Acts 1:1-14)
Episode 534 Easter without Jesus (Mark 16:1-8)
Episode 533 SPECIAL EPISODE Good Friday (Mark 15:16-41) REPLAY
Episode 532 SPECIAL EPISODE The Last Supper (Mark 14:12-42)
Episode 530 The Markan Apocalypse (Mark 13:1-8, 24-38)
Episode 529 Loving God and Neighbor (Mark 12:28-44)
Episode 528 The Parable of the Tenants (Mark 12:1-17)
Episode 527 The Healing of Bartimaeus (Mark 10:32-52)
Episode 526 The Eye of the Needle (Mark 10:17-31)
Episode 525 The Last Will Be First (Mark 9:30-37) ASH WEDNESDAY SPECIAL EPISODE
Episode 524 Who Do You Say That I Am? (Mark 8:27-9:8)
Episode 523 Sending the Disciples (Mark 6:1-30)
Episode 522 Healing Interrupted (Mark 5:21-43)
Episode 521 Making the Demons Tremble (Mark 5:1-20)
Episode 520 The Parables of Jesus (Mark 4:1-34)
Episode 519 Their Faith Has Made You Well (Mark 2:1-22)
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