“When the ten heard this,
they began to be angry with James and John” presumably because the ten were
sorry they hadn't been as
bold as the two. All twelve imagined the cup was power and the baptism the
laurel wreath of victory but Jesus is destined to be enthroned on a cross and
the places on the right and left of that throne were reserved for criminals.
Jesus stills the sons of thunder with the promise that they will drink the cup
of suffering and be baptized with death without getting anything in return
except the promise that being first for the follower of Jesus is like being
last in the ways of the world. In so many ways that lesson has been lost on the
church where rich church rulers are vested fully in the ways of the world provided
by people in the pews who like the widow with a mite can hardly afford to tithe. Thank God
that the “ransom for many” serves and saves in ways that go beyond the limited
understanding of the two and the ten and the church so that Jesus is proclaimed
despite our propensity to translate the Gospel into ways that make us great.
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