Pentecost 8

Lectionary Bible Readings

2 Samuel 7:1-14a
Psalm 89:20-37
Ephesians 2:11-22
Mark 6:30-34, 53-56

When Jesus and the disciples had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret and moored the boat. When they got out of the boat, people at once recognized him, and rushed about that whole region and began to bring the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was. And wherever he went, into villages or cities or farms, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged him that they might touch even the fringe of his cloak; and all who touched it were healed.

Some thoughts on today's gospel reading

Lord Jesus, I would not like to be thought of as a ‘user’ – someone who in a selfish way exploits family, friends, church or even God. If I feel I am being used,
I resent it. But in this scene you are being used to the point of exhaustion, and you react as you urged us to react, without a trace of resentment: ‘The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve’.

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