Week 33 - The Gospel of Mark

In this episode, David and Sophie continue their slow walk through Mark’s Passion narrative, beginning with Jesus’ sobering words: “You will all fall away, for it is written, I will strike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered.” Together, they explore the tension between the disciples’ bold declarations of loyalty and the quiet unraveling that follows in Gethsemane. They reflect on what it means that Jesus predicts not only betrayal but abandonment, and how deeply human the disciples’ sleep and fear feel in the face of his anguish.David and Sophie also examine the raw emotional language Mark uses to describe Jesus’ distress in the garden, asking what it reveals about his humanity and his loneliness. As the episode moves toward Judas’ arrival, they wrestle with the haunting symbolism of the kiss, why betrayal would come wrapped in intimacy, and how Jesus walks into it without resistance. The conversation lingers in the space between devotion and failure, asking what it costs to remain present when love becomes dangerous.