Bible Study recap, Mark 1: 29-39

*Setting aside the fact that Simon's mother-in-law was healed and she immediately proceeded to serve her guests we noticed the movement of Christ throughout the area (from one household to one city to the whole area of Galilee) is a shift in making God accessible. Previously, the divine was cordoned off, sequestered in the Temple, limited to human contact one time a year by the High Priest. The symbolism of God's own son, the incarnated divine, moving among the "common people" is a liberating and dramatic change in understanding the relationship between God and humanity.

*When tending to the needs of people, the spiritual often cannot be addressed until the physical and mental/emotional needs are satisifed. Is that why Jesus focussed on healing and casting out demons in the first chapter of his ministry?

*The fact that the disciples use the word "hunted for" Jesus, instead of "searched" or "looked for", seems rather violent. And when they found him, he did not return to those seeking him, but instead moved onward to other places. Perhaps the urgency of what he had yet to do spurred him on; but it is difficult for us to know the shape of the next few years, did he?