RCL reading for Sunday, July 19, 2009:
Excerpt from the New Revised Standard Version via Oremus (http://bible.oremus.org)
Mark 6:30-34, 53-56
30 The apostles gathered around Jesus, and told him all that they had done and taught.
31 He said to them, ‘Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.’ For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat.
32 And they went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves.
33 Now many saw them going and recognized them, and they hurried there on foot from all the towns and arrived ahead of them.
34 As he went ashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things.
53 When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret and moored the boat.
54 When they got out of the boat, people at once recognized him,
55 and rushed about that whole region and began to bring the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was.
56 And wherever he went, into villages or cities or farms, they laid the sick in the market-places, and begged him that they might touch even the fringe of his cloak; and all who touched it were healed.
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The first half of our composite reading for today is the run up to the feeding of the 5 thousand. Jesus sees the people on the bank and likens them to sheep without a shepherd. Like a good shepherd he feeds them physically, spiritually and miraculously. But that's not in the reading for today. Instead the scene cuts to the mobs at Genesaret who overwhelm Jesus and the disciples with their unmet health needs. This reading couldn't be more timely.
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