The story we read in the gospel of Mark today comes at a point when Jesus has crossed the Sea of Galilee for the third time. He starts on the Jewish side, teaching in parables by the sea, then crosses to Gerasene and heals a demoniac, then crosses back to the Jewish side and heals Jairus’s daughter and the woman with a hemorrhage, then crosses again to the non-Jewish side, which is where we find Jesus in today’s story. He seems to play no favoritism, except against the Pharisees. Rich and poor, gentile and Jew, women and men, old and young, none are turned away. May we all learn from that example.
Namaste! Amen!
The Readings
Genesis 1:1-19
Psalm 104
Mark 6:53-56
53 When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret and moored the boat. 54When they got out of the boat, people at once recognized him, 55and rushed about that whole region and began to bring the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was. 56And wherever he went, into villages or cities or farms, they laid the sick in the market-places, and begged him that they might touch even the fringe of his cloak; and all who touched it were healed.
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