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Tuesday, April 8, 2003

Mark 10:32-34 (NRSV)

Read Mark 10:32-34 on biblegateway.com

Verse 32They were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them; they were amazed, and those who followed were afraid. He took the twelve aside again and began to tell them what was to happen to him, Verse 33saying, "See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death; then they will hand him over to the Gentiles; Verse 34they will mock him, and spit upon him, and flog him, and kill him; and after three days he will rise again."

Devotion

“And they will hurl insults and spit at him and whip him and they will kill him—but on the third day he will rise.” Who are they? Is Jesus only talking about the crowd in Jerusalem? Or is he looking into the deepest parts of all our hearts and reminding us that far too often we worship ourselves rather than our Lord? During Lent, we remember that our sin contributed to the fervor that reached its apex with Christ’s death. But while we are weak, Jesus rises, and returns to show how small our sin is compared with the grace of God.

Prayer

In our fraility, when we fail to love our all your children as you taught us, let us have greater faith in the ressurection than in ourselves. Amen.

Josh McGuffie Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Berkeley, Calif.

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