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Sunday, February 19, 2012

Why is Jesus Always Leaving?


Last week I was noticing how introverted Jesus seems to be in Mark’s gospel; at every opportunity he seems to be leaving the crowds in order to be alone.  

But then today I noticed something more… Mark’s Jesus is always leaving.

Mark 1: 29 – he leaves the synagogue
1:35 – he leaves the house
3:7 – he withdraws with his disciples to the lake
4:36 – he leaves the crowds behind
5:18 – he leaves the Gerasenes region
6:1 – he leaves another place
6:32 – he leaves with his disciples for a solitary place
6:46 – he leaves the crowds again
7:17 – he leaves the crowds yet again
7:24 – he leaves that place
7:31 – he leaves the region of Tyre
8:13 – he leaves the Pharisees in the region of Dalmanutha
9:30 – he leaves that place
10:1 – he leave another place
10:46 – he leaves Jericho
11:11 – he leaves the temple and Jerusalem
11:12 – he leaves Bethany
11:19 – he leaves Jerusalem again
13:1 – he leaves the temple again
14:35 – he leaves the disciples to go on a little further
16: 6 - 7 – the angels tell the women at the tomb that he’s already left.

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