Mark’s source, where the next story is the multiplication of the loaves (2007, 286), but this is unnecessary. This collection of miracle stories (4:35–5:43) has some vital lessons. Here we see Jesus exercising power “over chaotic nature, destructive demons, debilitating illness and death itself” (Donahue and Harrington 2002, 179). The clearest lesson is connected to the theme of purity. Jesus encounters three distinct sources of impurity but is never made impure. Rather, the impure