YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
(Mark 6:14-29 c.f. Mark 8:27-28)
John the baptiser,
Elijah, or a prophet;
who is this Jesus?
The speculation
foreshadows the same question
posed in chapter eight.
Truth can bear danger
in the hearing – and telling:
so it was for John.
This dark narrative
warns of the risks which attend
living truth and right.
So too, chapter eight;
Jesus tells how he will die –
another warning.
Jeff Shrowder, 2021
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