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Mark For Everyone
MARK 16.9–20
Two Extra Endings...
...These are the two ‘extra’ endings of Mark. They are not found in the best manuscripts, but are added in to several others in a bewildering variety of ways. The shorter, first one (in double square brackets) doesn’t have a verse number. The longer second one is known as Mark 16.9–20. They represent at least two different ways – the second one may perhaps include more than one way – in which pious copyists, finding Mark short of a final column or page, decided to add what they thought a suitable conclusion.
The shorter ending is quite unlike Mark’s style. It is grandiose and formal. It is a general statement of Christian faith in what happened after Easter, but it doesn’t link in to the rest of Mark in any visible way, as we might have expected...
Taken from Mark for Everyone by Tom Wright