Is the ending of the Gospel of Mark (16:9-20) original?
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Is the ending of the Gospel of Mark (16:9-20) original?
Bruce Metzger, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (Stuttgart, 1971), pages 122-126.
16:9-20 The Ending(s) of Mark. Four endings of the Gospel according to Mark are current in the manuscripts. (1) The last twelve verses of the commonly received text of Mark are absent from the two oldest Greek manuscripts (א and B), from the Old Latin... See more
16:9-20 The Ending(s) of Mark. Four endings of the Gospel according to Mark are current in the manuscripts. (1) The last twelve verses of the commonly received text of Mark are absent from the two oldest Greek manuscripts (א and B), from the Old Latin... See more
The Ending of Mark (Mark 16:9-20)
The Jesus of Mark is therefore the silent, puzzling, even absent Jesus. But this is also true to our own experience of Jesus. In our lives we are sometimes frustrated by the absence of Jesus, at least as we sometimes experience it.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
I am merely attempting to explain why and how I continue to find traditional Christian doctrines and confessions “true,” why I’m willing to confess the creeds, even though I am a critical scholar who knows much of the Bible is not “true” when taken as history or science. This is not an apology but an attempt at explanation and illustration.