Sermons on the Gospel Readings
Today's Gospel Reading is from Mark, but I want to begin in the Old Testament. It will bring us, in good time, to the Mark reading.
If you study the Bible for very long, you soon learn that it is not one homogenous book but a collection of many books by many different authors who wrote, in some cases, as much as 1,000 years apart. You may also know that during the long period covered by the Bible, there were many written documents available. So who decided which of them became Holy Scripture and which did not?