Sabbath and the radical as normal
Proper 4B | Mark 2:23-3:6
We are jumping back into Ordinary Time now. Which means we’re returning to the story we started in Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany, before we got distracted with the Transfiguration, Lent, and Easter. So it’s kind of like the old network TV days when we had to remember what happened last season, which was four months ago.
So we’re about where we were when we left off. Jesus was baptized by John the Baptizer, then he called some disciples and then really got started. This was all in chapter one of Mark.
Now, there’s some interesting stuff we’ve skipped over at the end of chapter one and the first part of chapter two. Jesus goes on a preaching tour, cleanses a leper, and heals a paralytic. He then goes and hangs out with tax collectors, calling one of them named Levi to be a disciple.
What this does is draw some negative…
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