Posts Tagged ‘Mark 16:9-15 and 20’

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Acts 4:13-21
Mark 16:9-15, 20

For the past few days, we’ve been making our way piece by piece through a single story from the book of Acts – the story of Peter and John healing a lame man in the temple courtyard. Each installation of the story has been paired with gospel accounts of post-resurrection visits from Jesus.

Oftentimes during a worship service such as this, we listen first to a passage from the Hebrew scriptures and then to a gospel account about the life of Jesus. First the old, and then the new, a journey echoing the familiar pattern of linear time.

But not so this week. The order of the readings is reversed from linear time. The events we heard first in the retelling of the book of Acts occurred *after* Jesus was crucified, died, and rose again that Easter morning. It’s as if we’re glimpsing a flashback into Peter and John’s earlier life as we take in the post-resurrection visit from Jesus recounted from Mark’s gospel.

Imagine how the scene from Acts might look if it unfolded on a movie screen:

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