On this special Ash Wednesday episode BibleWorm reads Mark 9:30-37, the story of the disciples arguing about who is greatest. We talk about the specter of death that hangs over this text and the way that death anxiety may push the disciples—and us—toward cultural constructions of our their own value. Yet Jesus redirects them, first by insisting that the last will be first and the first last, and then by instructing them to embrace those with no status in the social hierarchy at all. We also wrestle with Jesus’s insistence on explaining his suffering and death to the disciples when they just can’t seem to get it. Sometimes we just need to hear the words even if we don’t have the life experience to understand them yet. Someday we’ll need those words, and what a gift it is to have received them.
Episode 136 Acts 1:1-14 The Ascension of Jesus
Episode 135 Mark 16:1-8 The Markan Easter Story
Episode 134 Mark 15:16-41 Good Friday BONUS EPISODE
Episode 133 Mark 11:1-21 and 14:1-9 The Triumphal Entry and a Woman's Gift
Episode 132 Mark 13:1-37 The End of the World as We Know It
Episode 131 Mark 12:28-44 The Greatest Commandment and the Widow's Offering
Episode 130 Mark 12:1-17 The Parable of the Tenants and the Question of Taxes
Episode 129: Mark 10:32-52 Blind Bartimaeus
Episode 128 Mark 10:17-31 The Eye of the Needle
Episode 127: Mark 9:30-37 Who is the Greatest?
Episode 126: Mark 8:22-9:8 The Mount of Transfiguration
Episode 125 Mark 7:1-23 Controversy over Handwashing
Episode 124 Mark 6:1-29 Jesus Sends Out the Twelve
Episode 123 Mark 5:21-43 Jesus Heals Two Women
Episode 122 Mark 5:1-20 Jesus Heals a Man Possessed by Unclean Spirits
Episode 121 Mark 4:1-34 Parables of the Kingdom
Episode 120 Mark 2:1-22 Community and Conflict
Episode 119 Mark 1:21-45 The Beginning of Jesus's Ministry
Episode 118 Mark 1:1-20 Baptism and Call
Episode 117 Luke 2 Christmas Eve SPECIAL EPISODE
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