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Around the same time as Augustine and perhaps a little earlier (ca. AD 390), John Chrysostom contended that the differences between the Gospels are a great proof of their truth. For if they accurately agreed in all things, including time, place, and wording, no enemies would believe them but would rather suppose that they came together by some
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wife. At any rate, he calls them “outstanding among the apostles.” Despite attempts of some complementarians to make this mean merely “well known to the apostles,”76 the use of en followed by a plural object is far more naturally and commonly rendered “among.”
James R. Beck, Craig L. Blomberg (Editor), Craig S. Keener (Contributor), Linda L. Belleville (Contr... • Two Views on Women in Ministry

The longer ending (3), though current in a variety of witnesses, some of them ancient, must also be judged by internal evidence to be secondary. (a) The vocabulary and style of verses 9-20 are non-Markan. (e.g. απιστεω, βλαπτω, βεβαιοω, επακολουθεω, θεαομαι, μετα ταυτα, πορευομαι, συνεργεω, υστερον are found nowhere else in Mark; and θανασιμον and... See more
The Ending of Mark (Mark 16:9-20)

Much has been made of the famous story of Jesus in Bethany with Mary and Martha (Luke 10:38–42).
James R. Beck, Craig L. Blomberg (Editor), Craig S. Keener (Contributor), Linda L. Belleville (Contr... • Two Views on Women in Ministry

