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Feasting on the Gospels: Mark is unavailable, but you can change that!

Feasting on the Gospels is an all-new, seven-volume preaching series that focuses on the most prominent and preached-on New Testament books, the four Gospels. Featuring never- before-published essays from a diverse and respected group of scholars and pastors, Feasting on the Gospels covers every single passage in the Gospels, making it a valuable resource for developing sermons. In the Gospel of...

Lamar Williamson Jr. says it well: the image of Christ as bridegroom in this passage implies joy in the presence of Jesus, and celebration of the “already” dimension of the kingdom of God.2 If the disciples would not fast at an actual wedding banquet, why would they fast when the bridegroom Jesus was with them? After all, the kingdom of God has come near; Jesus demands a new way of life from his disciples, one that goes against the grain of the societal and religious norms of the day. Jesus then
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