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Time after Pentecost · Year B

Proper 21

September 26, 2027

The Damned, Luca Signorelli
The Damned, Luca Signorelli, 1499–1502Chapel of San Brizio, Orvieto Cathedral
At Orvieto, and the most physically inventive hell in Italian painting: the demons are painted in greens and greys like bruised flesh, and each one is carrying somebody.If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off: the reading uses the most violent language in the gospels, and Signorelli matched it.Luca SignorelliAn Umbrian painter obsessed with the nude figure in violent motion, whose Orvieto frescoes Michelangelo studied closely.Chapel of San Brizio, Orvieto CathedralA chapel in the cathedral of Orvieto, frescoed by Fra Angelico and then, fifty years later, finished by Signorelli.Chapel of San Brizio, Orvieto Cathedral
LSB Three-Year Lectionary
GospelMark 9:38-50Mk 9:38-50
EpistleJas. 5:(1-12) 13-20Jas 5:(1-12) 13-20
Old TestamentNum. 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29Nm 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29
PsalterPs. 104:27-35Ps 104:27-35

Overview & Insights

"Whoever is not against us is for us." (Mark 9:40)

Jesus tells the disciples not to stop an outsider casting out demons in his name, then warns with vivid images against causing little ones to stumble and against whatever leads oneself into sin, urging his followers to be at peace with one another.

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Commentary

Commentary on Mark 9:38-50Commentary on Mk 9:38-50 Working Preacher

The Lutheran seminary commentary on the outsider exorcist and the warnings against stumbling.

Mark 9Mk 9 Enduring Word · David Guzik

David Guzik's verse by verse evangelical notes on the whole chapter.

Mark 9 CommentaryMk 9 Commentary Precept Austin

A deep study page gathering many conservative commentators on Mark 9.

Commentaries on Mark 9:38Commentaries on Mk 9:38 BibleHub

Parallel classic commentaries keyed to the one casting out demons in Jesus' name.

Background & Word Study

Gospel of Mark OverviewGospel of Mk Overview BibleProject

Animated overview of the message and structure of Mark's Gospel.

Mark 9 InterlinearMk 9 Interlinear BibleHub

Greek and English interlinear for word level study of Mark 9.

The Church Fathers

Catena on Mark 9Catena on Mk 9 Catena

Patristic comments gathered verse by verse on Mark 9.

Worship & Prayers

Proper 21B Collect and Readings The Lectionary Page

Anglican collect and the full set of appointed readings for the day.

Podcast

Sermon Brainwave Podcast Working Preacher

Weekly lectionary podcast where scholars discuss the appointed texts.

Art & Music

Art in the Christian Tradition Vanderbilt

A curated image index for visual reflection on the day's readings.

Study Hub

The Text This Week: Proper 21B Textweek

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