Mark 3:13-29; 6:6b-13

The text before us begins with Jesus’ calling of the twelve disciples and ends with Jesus’ instruction to the twelve to go out to the villages. Mark presents the calling and the instruction as two separate events. The gospel of Matthew records the calling and instruction as a single event (see Matt. 10:1-15). Matthew and Mark write from two different perspectives. Matthew writes both of that which he directly experienced and that…