March 25, Passion Sunday B (Mark 14:1-15:47; Psalm 31:9-16)
In the hours before the Passion, the Jesus who was hidden becomes revealed.
Read the author's column on the Liturgy of the Palms.
For there is nothing that is hidden except that it might be made manifest, nor that has become concealed except that it might come out into plain sight,” Jesus says in David Bentley Hart’s new translation of the New Testament. Parables have a hidden meaning now but will later be made plain. Disciples are few, and their message of messianic hope and salvation reaches only those close at hand; later it will be seen and heard everywhere. And by the same token, failures and crimes that are covered up now will, in time, be revealed.
If we didn’t hear Jesus say this, we could still know it from a thousand movie and book plots where a careful plan goes awry. And we could know it from every scandal that starts with a few pinholes of daylight and every public cover-up that slowly then quickly unravels. Things come out. They want to come out.
