Proper 7 Year B

Proper 7

1 Samuel 17.[1a, 4-11, 19-23] 32-49
2 Corinthians 6.1-13
Mark 4.35-41


Right from the start in Mark, Jesus is up against it. Tempted by Satan in the wilderness; shrieked at by benighted souls in the synagogue; criticized by the self-appointed religious experts. Now the sea itself, with all its dark and evil mythological overtones, rises up against him. And he is . . . asleep. There is as much mystery here as when the Word, through whom all things were created, lay asleep in his mother’s arms...

Taken from Twelve Months of Sundays Year B by N T Wright