This being Year B of the Sunday lectionary cycle, we will mostly be reading through St Mark’s Gospel; but only mostly, because it is the shortest of the four Gospels, and so we will make a brief sojourn into St John’s Gospel in  July and August. The detour into John is certainly not random: we interrupt our reading of Mark midway through Chapter 6 (this year, we  read Mark 6:30-34 on July 21) and take it up  again six weeks later at the beginning of Chapter 7 (on September 1). What is omitted is St  Mark’s account of the Feeding of the Five Thousand, and this is what we read from John, followed by the long discourse that follows. This miracle is the only one – unless you count the  Resurrection – which appears in all four Gospels, so clearly it is in some way the miracle of Jesus, the very paradigm of what a miracle is.