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NASB | Mark 16:9 ¶ [Now after He had risen early on the first day of the week, He first appeared to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had cast out seven demons. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Mark 16:9 ¶ [Now Jesus, having risen [from death] early on the first day of the week, appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had cast out seven demons. |
Subject: short and long version of Mark 16:8 |
Bible Note: Greetings EdB! Here is some information about the endings of Mark. ************************************* There are four versions of the ending of Mark. 1) The first does not have the last twelve verses of the commonly receved text of Mark. To quote Bruce Metzger: They "...are absent from the two odest Greek manuscrpts, from the Old Latin codex Bobienss, the Sinaitic Syriac manuscript, about one hundred Armenian manuscripts, and the two oldest Georgia manuscripts. Clement of Alexandria and Origen show no knoledge of the existence of these verses, furthermore Eusebious and Jerome attest that the passage was abent from almost all Greek copies of Mark known to them. The orginal form of the Eusebian sections (drawn up by Ammoninu) makes no provision for numbeing sections fo the text after 16:8. Not a few manuscripts which contain the passage have scribal notes stating that older Greek copies lack it, and in other witnesses the passage is marked with asterisks or obeli, the conventional signs used by copyists to indiate a spurious addition to a document." Source (A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament, by Bruce Metzger, pp. 122-123). 2) The second ending is found in several mid to late versions. It says, "But they reported briefly to Peter and those with him all that they had been told And after this Jesus himself sent out by meas of them, from east to west, the sacred and imperishble proclamation of eternal salvation." This addition is then followed by vv. 9-20 in most of the manuscripts containing this ending. 3) The third is the traditional ending (vv. 9-20). It is found in the vast number of witnesses: including, A, C, D, k, X, W, ect... The only problem is that these manuscripts are not as old as those supporting the first manuscript and they contain a different style of writting than the rest of Mark. 4) There was also a longer version which circulated in the fourth century accoding to Jermore. It is only found in one Greek manuscript. Mark 16:9-20 is not found in the following manuscripts: 1) Aleph (dating from the 4th century - one of the oldest complete manuscripts containing all of the new Testment books). 2) Beta (dating from the 4th century) 3) The Old Latin codex Bobiensis (itk) dating from the 4th to 5th century. 4) The Sinaitic Syriac manuscript (about the 4th century). 5) 100 Aremenian manuscripts. 6) The two oldest Georgian manuscripts. 7) Clement of Alexandria shows no knowledge of the longer ending (4th Century). 8) Origen shows no knowledge of the longer ending (3rd century). Granted, these last two are arguments from silence, but they had opportunity to quote the longer ending if it were original. 9) Eusebius states that the longer ending was absent from almost all Greek copies of Mark known to him (4th century). 10) Jerome states that the longer ending was absent from almost all Greek copies of Mark known to him (5th century). 11) Many manuscripts list it with notations that mark it as a spurious reading. 12) Many others include the passage, but note that it was absent from older Greek copies. This is the external textual evidence for the exclusion of Mark 16:9-20. Source(Bruce Metzger's, "A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament") ************************************ There is some textual evidence for the long ending dating from the fourth century, but it is limited. Further, the patristic evidence indicates that the longer ending was known in the fourth century, but not common. As time passed, it became more common - perhaps for the reason you mentiond, that it didn't seem likely that Mark would end on such an abrupt note. However, the best evidence seems to indicate that he did. Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |