Call and Consequences -A Womanist Reading of Mark

Hearing Jesu ‘Call to Discipleship the Margins of Society
“The son of man must suffer” Jesus tells his disciples in the Gospel of Mark, and interpreters agree that this warning is centrally important to the Gospel. But why must Jesus suffer, and why must his disciples face suffering if any would follow him? Is this a matter of “divine necessity,” or the consequence of historical opposition to Jesus’ cause?