We come now to what St. Augustine considered to be the most challenging interpretive question in all of Scripture—What is the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit?

Just as God gathered the twelve tribes around Sinai and later around the tabernacle, so Jesus gathers twelve men around Himself

The great irony and hypocrisy of the Pharisees is that they go to church to dig up dirt on God. They charge God with breaking the sabbath.

The forgiveness of sins is a greater miracle than healing the paralytic.

Mark is playing with this idea of what it means to seek someone. You could seek them like Saul seeks for David (to kill him), or you could seek them like Jesus seeks for God (because He loves Him)