And, after the Wilderness, a changing of the guard. John is arrested. Jesus picks up the prophetic torch and begins his public ministry. The gospel of Mark startles us with its speed. You feel that Jesus is sent into the wilderness still wet from the waters of baptism. And that the time in the wilderness passes in the blink of an eye. Everything in Mark's gospel is in a bit of a hurry. Mark's favourite word seems to be "immediately"! Yet even in his hurried pace Mark tells us that God saw to it that Jesus took time first to get his act together. Jesus is sent into the Wilderness. And so often, we jump to thoughts of temptation, testing and suffering. But wait. Go back. Before he's driven out - and it's the same word in the Greek that's used later when