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The Cross from a Distance: Atonement in Mark’s Gospel is unavailable, but you can change that!

“They brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha.… And they crucified him.… Some women were watching from a distance” (Mark 15:22, 24, 40). At the climax of Mark’s Gospel, Jesus of Nazareth is put to death on a Roman cross. The text tells us, in that lonely hour, that a group of women were watching the crucifixion “from a distance.” In a sense, they are given a stance toward the cross that we can...

great sabbath rest at the end of time (Shead 2002), entered through the resurrection from the dead. The one who will be the great Son of Man is already in their midst, and they accuse him of breaking the sabbath day, which, in the end, points towards him and his coming kingdom. The fourth and final story (3:1–6) brings this cycle of conflict to a head. In this scene, we watch the Lord of the sabbath acting consistently with the sabbath. On the day that was made
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