Where's Waldo?

In this series of children's books by Martin Handford, Waldo is a cartoon-like young man wearing a bright red and white striped shirt and a matching cap. On each set of facing pages, Waldo appears in different colorful situations, and each time, children are asked to find him. Sometimes there are other characters wearing caps, or other objects that might be striped red and white designed to fool young readers, but that's all part of the fun of finding Waldo.

In this part of Mark's gospel, if we were to ask ‘where's the good disciple?’ we would still be looking. The rich young man may have kept all of the commandments, but ultimately his wealth held him back from following Jesus. James and John were more concerned about their own future than about Jesus' coming arrest and e…