[notes from my message last week at unedited]

This might be a story you’ve heard or read yourself before but hopefully we can look at it with fresh eyes all over again.

In the book of Mark Jesus is travelling with his disciples teaching and up to this point he’s been primarily teaching in Jewish areas of the Roman Empire. But at this point he decides to cross over to the other side. Now the “other side” is necessarily not the “dark side”. It has nothing to do with Emperor Palpitine and lightning bolt finger tips, although it might as well have for a lot of the Jews. The other side Jesus is talking about is the other side of Lake Kinneret, or more commonly called the Sea of Galilee.
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