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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...

they still do not see, or hear, or understand; that is, they still have no faith (8:14–21). Since faith has been discussed using the metaphor of sight, the cure of the blind man at the end of the section holds out some hope (8:22–26). If Jesus can open the eyes of the physically blind, perhaps he will be able to open the eyes of the disciples, so that they can truly see the one they are following. Despite their obtuseness, however, the disciples do not present an entirely bleak picture. Some of their
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