This article was originally written for Christ Hold Fast. In between Jesus’s illustration of his kingdom being one of “fire and salt” and the inquiry of the Pharisees, there is a gap, a vacuity in Mark’s Gospel record. (Mk 10:1) This Mark does frequently throughout his Gospel, jumping ahead chronologically in order to continue his narrative thematically — namely, the theme of those in close proximity to Jesus completely misconstruing his message regarding the coming kingdom of God. St. Mark carries that motif into chapter ten, turning the conversation back to the matter of one’s “entrance into the kingdom.”