The messianic secret’s presence can naturally befuddle us as readers. It feels completely contradictory to the evangelical nature of modern Christianity. The evangelical world depicts a Jesus that says, “Go! Tell everyone about me! To the ends of the Earth! Ask that guy in the grocery store aisle if he knows me! Tell that woman in the Starbucks line about what I’ve done for you!” How do we reconcile that with the presence of the messianic secret theme throughout the Gospel of Mark?

We are divided. Separated for the good of each other. I’ve been to and touched and experienced different parts of the world than you lately, so we cannot be together. Social distance, inserting physical barriers of the unseen divisions we naturally catalog in our subconscious.