‘Now after John was arrested, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God.’ Mark 1:14

Teaching a classics lesson on Friday, I made a mistake. I put a medieval way of Thinking about a word back iinto Roman times. Retrojection, it might be called, projectng an idea backwards. Putting a way of thinking into the wrong time.

There is a danger of us doing retrojection today. There is a danger of reading the Gospel and putting our ideas of things back into the times of Jesus.  Looking at …