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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: Mark 16:9-20 |
Bible Note: There is a very interesting thing about Mark's gospel. In its original form it stops at Mk 16:8. We know that for two reasons. First, the verses which follow (Mk 16:9-20) are not in any of the great early manuscripts; only later and inferior manuscripts contain them. Second, the style of the Greek is so different that they cannot have been written by the same person as wrote the rest of the gospel. But the gospel cannot have been meant to stop at Mk 16:8. What then happened? It may be that Mark died, perhaps even suffered martyrdom, before he could complete his gospel. More likely, it may be that at one time only one copy of the gospel remained, and that a copy in which the last part of the roll on which it was written had got torn off. There was a time when the church did not much use Mark, preferring Matthew and Luke. It may well be that Mark's gospel was so neglected that all copies except for a mutilated one were lost. If that is so we were within an ace of losing the gospel which in many ways is the most important of all. We can surmise many a thing, the one thing we can't forget is the very fact that each and every scripture here in effect has either allready been said, or was shortly there after fulfilled by the Apostles them selves. So in conclusion let it be said that these events are biblical,and stand in light of scripture, of whats already been said in one place or another, If we didn't have Mark 16:9-20 we would still arrive at the same conclusion.Love in CHRIST.RC.Scroll P.S.Irenaeus in 180 A.D. I don't quite remember him naming the verse or book I could be wrong, |