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Almost all English Bible translations place the last twelve verses of Mark’s Gospel in brackets, suggesting the passage may not be authentic. How do we assess the evidence for where Mark ends?
Published April 10, 2021, 12:00 AM
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The original version of the Gospel of Mark ends in verse 8 of chapter 16, with the women still cowering in fear and overcome with bewilderment. Thus, they are unable to obey the command of the angel to convey to the apostles that Jesus will meet with them in Galilee. The Gospel reading today is called the Longer Ending, composed and added later. Here, the editor summarizes the stories of the appearance of Jesus to Mary Magdalene and to two disciples on their way to the country, akin to Luke’s story of the two disciples on their way to Emmaus. The ending is some sort of chiaroscuro, where there is interplay of light and shadows. The resurrection did not totally dispel the unbelief and hardness of heart on the part of the followers of Jesus. Still, this does not prevent them from being empowered by Jesus and from being sent to the whole world to preach the Gospel. In the evangelization of peoples, both human frailty and divine po