Notes on the Greek New Testament
My notes on the Greek New Testament can be accessed by means
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Thought for the Week
"The ending of Mark's Gospel fits the rest of the Gospel. It ends on a knife edge:
will the disciples finnaly realise who Jesus is and live up to the high calling
to which he has attempted to point them throughout his life? Or will they, as so
often before, fail him, running away at the key moment when they are most needed?
The answer seems to be yes to both questions: yes they do fail him again but the
fact that we are now reading the Gospel, written probably about 40 years after these
events, tells us that ultimately they did not fail and did live up to Jesus' expectations
of them. We so often want to make a clear-cut decision on whether the disciples
were good or bad, successes or failures. The answer seems to be that they were a
mix of both good and bad, successful and failing, and this should surely be very
comforting to all of us who struggle along the way of discipleship today."
Paula Gooder, This Risen Existence, Norwich, Canterbury Press, 2009, p.27.