Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature. After hearing in detail Jesus’ post-resurrection appearances from the other three evangelists in the course of the week, today we turn to Mark for a summary of the appearances. Unlike Matthew, Luke and John, Mark doesn’t go into the details. However, unlike the others and characteristic of Mark, the evangelist reports that the appearances all ended in the disciples’ refusal to believe. For Mark, the refusal seems to be intentional, or rather, Mark furthers the theme that has been running throughout his writing: the disciples’ hardness of heart. This is an important point that Mark makes because ordinarily, one would have expected the disciples to begin “getting it” following this greatest of all signs that Jesus performed. This forces Jesus to make himself present when the eleven were all together at table and, as he had always done, he reprimands them. Jesus then goes ahead to “commission” the eleven: he entrusts them with spreading the good news to the ends of the earth. We can only presume that the disciples finally “got it,” because the good news consisted in reporting with conviction all that they had seen Jesus do: performing signs.