Proper 3 Year B

Proper 3

Isaiah 43.18–25
2 Corinthians 1.18–22
Mark 2.1–12

Our capacity to respond wrongly to God is endless. All three of today’s readings focus primarily on the generosity of God, but they also all have as a backdrop the stubborn stupidity of our response. 

The miracle that Jesus performs in the reading from Mark’s Gospel is a much loved story. What Sunday-school child hasn’t drawn diagrams of the flat-roofed homes of Jesus’s day, to illustrate how the friends of the paralysed man would have been able to lower him down in front of Jesus? And they had to resort to such methods because so many people had come to see and hear Jesus that they couldn’t get through any other way... 

Taken from Lectionary Reflections – Year B by Jane Williams