When? [Proper 28B - Mark 13:1-8]
The Rt. Rev. Jeremiah Williamson Mark 13:1-8 When? St. Stephen’s, Schuylerville Sometimes you just don’t know what to say to Jesus. Have you ever had that experience? Well, so did at least one of Jesus’ disciples. And so he just blurted out, “Look, Teacher, what large stones and what large buildings!” And probably the stones were large. And certainly the Second Temple appeared quite large, especially to a citizen of the 1 st century, in the days before skyscrapers and NYC and the UAE. But Jesus meets that awkward outburst with something much more serious. And then, it seems, no one talks again until they get to the Mount of Olives. But in the silence, the disciples’ minds were racing. They were wondering. Because once again, they could not make sense of Jesus. Neither could they make sense of a world that can’t seem to help but fall apart. The disciples: they are just like us. Jesus didn’t answer their question…at least not in the w