"Keep Watch" Malcolm Duncan moves into chapter 13 of Mark’s gospel, which is perhaps the most challenging chapter in this gospel to understand. After leaving the temple for the last time, Jesus predicts the temple’s destruction and then climbs the Mount of Olives, which overlooks the temple, sits down, and tells his four closest disciples what will happen in the future—not that they will become frantic, but instead be committed and active…….and stay awake!