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Episode 69: Daniel Kirk - Five Things You Need to Know About the Gospel of Mark

The Bible For Normal People

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The Power of the Strong Man

The way to God is not this upward escalation toward heavenly power but it's this downward slope toward the child who's kind of at the bottom of the patriarchal pecking order here in this context. The only people in gospel of mark who get to be crucified next to Jesus are the two people who are crucified right hand and left hand  at your left in gloryYes, I think they were gonna ask for James and John as a Christmas present and then they went and ruined it by asking themselves all that so grumpy Mcgrumpy pants says hey how can you have these people at the table? You don't get the severity of what they've done if you don't read the

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