Mark 6:14-29 page 1

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You’ve probably heard the famous story about the preacher giving a children’s address.

“What’s brown, furry and climbs trees?” he asks the children.

A little girl nervously raises her hand. “Please, I know the answer should be Jesus but it sounds like a squirrel to me.”

How easy it is to get the wrong end of the stick.

So who is our passage about? Is it about Herod? John the Baptist? Salome? Herodias?

I’m going to suggest that in the words of the little girl, ‘the answer should be Jesus’. The whole of Mark’s Gospel has Jesus as his subject. The very first verse of the Gospel says it is the beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Even in this story, where the apparent focus is upon the scandalous murder of his cousin John, Jesus is the theme.

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