Breaking the Word

GOSPEL  READING  MARK 3:22-30

Jesus was going about doing good. He was doing so much of good that it was noticed much and it disturbed the leaders and the settled people of the society. They begin to interpret his actions differently hoping to distract the crowd that followed him and also to move the people away from him. Because the people were flocking to him in such manner that they thought that he would take the crowd away from the traditional set up of the society.

Jesus gives counter arguments to them saying that even their own arguments were not right. Even evil will not work against evil was his argument. Evil would want to perpetuate itself and it would want to continue but the works of Jesus are against evil and to bring about good in the society. Their opinion and their arguments are wrong.

GOSPEL  READING  MARK 1:14-20

Jesus calls the disciples to be his followers. He calls them from their own situations. He does not pick them up from or choose them from a qualified crowd or the elite of the society. He calls his disciples from a working class community. He calls them from the periphery of the society. They at the sea shore which was the end of the world. After the shore there was only water and there was nothing after that.

He chose them to be his disciples and followers. They had to follow him. At the moment of his calling he did not give them any principles and rules to follow him. He just wanted them to come after him. They had to follow the person Jesus. Their work was to make disciples for Jesus because he said to them “I will make you fishers of men”.