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Mark For Everyone
MARK 16.1–8
The Resurrection...
...Mark’s ending is missing. I am convinced of it. Two of our best manuscripts, both from the fourth century, end where this text breaks off. The alternative endings in several other manuscripts, which I shall deal with in an extra section after this one, seem clearly to be later writings, added by copyists who, agreeing with me that Mark couldn’t have meant to stop there, were determined to fill in the gap.
Of course, there are many who think that Mark did after all intend to close the book with the women in fear and silence, but I disagree. I have become quite sure that there was more. I think a very, very early copy of Mark was mutilated. As with many other scrolls and books in the ancient world (and some- times even in the modern), the last page, or the last column of the scroll, was torn off, presumably by accident...
Taken from Mark for Everyone by Tom Wright
MARK 16.1–8
The Resurrection...
...Mark’s ending is missing. I am convinced of it. Two of our best manuscripts, both from the fourth century, end where this text breaks off. The alternative endings in several other manuscripts, which I shall deal with in an extra section after this one, seem clearly to be later writings, added by copyists who, agreeing with me that Mark couldn’t have meant to stop there, were determined to fill in the gap.
Of course, there are many who think that Mark did after all intend to close the book with the women in fear and silence, but I disagree. I have become quite sure that there was more. I think a very, very early copy of Mark was mutilated. As with many other scrolls and books in the ancient world (and some- times even in the modern), the last page, or the last column of the scroll, was torn off, presumably by accident...
Taken from Mark for Everyone by Tom Wright
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