Mark's account - up on a mount!

Text->PW: I'm enjoying some of Mark's account.

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Well, "I'm enjoying some of Mark's account*",
he says to me, with twinkle in his eyes.
I wonder what he likes? Is it the MOUNT
that Jesus went up to before those guys

were called by him to make the newest twelve;
beginning of the "offspring" of the brand
new Isra'el whose sons would good, and well,

vol-um-in-ous-ly fill, and rule, as planned

by God's own Word, at first back down the track,

but not as kings of this world do today,

as he would MOUNT his cross upon his back,

ascending any lonely MOUNT to pray.

Might be the MOUNT where he took his close three

to be alone with him, but then they met

with two who'd met the Most High already,

and subsequently led folk further yet.

Might be the MOUNT that he had ridden on

into Jeru-salem before he's dead.

The kind of transport then "unhidden from"

a tradesman's pregnant woman - so it's said.

Might be the MOUNT of Olives where he prayed

in garden - NOT to have what he desired

(like garden on a mountain in the shade

of tree where other "son of God" had sired

a “way of life” that led to sin and death);

instead he'd MOUNT a cross - for life and peace,

by loving not his life on Earth, each breath

he gave to save us from a “life” deceased.

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*  Mark's account of the Gospel (euangelion) about Jesus, the Christ, the Son of God.

But we are tempted when we are drawn away and trapped by our own unbridled desires. Then our unbridled desires conceive and give birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.  James 1:14‭-‬15 GNTD

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