Reading for January 21st

Read Mark 14.26.52
26-31 (Mt 26.30-35; Lk 22.29, 31-34) Predictions of failure and victory.
In verse 26 Seders end with the singing of the Hallel Psalms (Ps 115-118).
In verse 27 Zech 13.7.
In verse 28 (see 16.7) the Gospel likely ended without recording resurrection appearances
(see sidebar, "The Ending of Mark," p. 78).
In verses 30-31 Mark portrays the disciples' failures, not their redemption.
In verses 32-42 (Mt 26.36-46; Lk 22.40-46).
Grief in Gethsemane.
Jn 18.1 refers to a garden.
In verse 32 Jesus frequently prays (1.35; 9.29; 11.17).
In verse 33 the three sleeping disciples foreshadow the three women who fail at the tomb.
In verse 36 Abba is father in Aramaic (Rom 8.15; Gal 4.6).
In verse 38 tine of trial is, in Greek, "temptation."
The Gospel does not encourage or glorify martyrdom.
In verses 43-52 (Mt 26.47-56; Lk 22.47-53; Jn 18.2-11) The arrest.
In verse 44 the sign of intimacy and peace becomes the means of handing
Jesus over to the chief priests.
In verse 47 Mark does not identify the sword-wielder.
In verse 50 the last appearance of the disciples as a group highlights their failure.
In verses 51-52 the young man is also not identified; some traditions speculate that he is
Mark and the house of the last supper belonged to his mother (Acts 12.12); he may represent the newly baptized follower who strips off his old way of life and puts on another.
Another "young man" appears in the tomb. (16.5).
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