The Missing Ending to the Gospel of Mark

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The Gospel of Mark is believed to have been written several decades before Matthew, Luke & John.

The original manuscript that we have ends abruptly where Chapter 16, verse 8 is. We have found two alternative ending (one referred to as the long ending and one referred to the short ending), but whether there are more to the ending than we currently have, we do not know for sure. The other Gospels mention Jesus doing things after rising from the Dead that might have been in Mark’s Gospel, but that were lost.

Jimmy Akin talked about this last month on Catholic Answers Live in more detail after a woman called in asking about a fiction book she was reading about the missing pages. She thought it might be a silly question, but it turned out to be a very good question. Jimmy is of the belief that there are not other lost pages and that the Gospel of Mark was a literary style of taking notes.

Check your Bible and see if it goes to verse 8 or on to verse 20. And if it has the long, short, or both alternative endings.

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Verses 17-20 of Mark’s Gospel are not an optional afterthought, they are part of the Gospel and are included in the Lectionary. These verses speak of the signs and wonders that would be associated with ordinary believers(not only apostles). Check it out!

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Right, but what I am saying is in the original manuscript it stopped before these verses. In others that they found, the short and the long version that included these verses were included. There are some who believe there are other missing portions that have been lost. But, yes, we should accept the ones that have been found, even if there are more to the Gospel that is missing or that is non-existent.

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I highly recommend this book:
Why Four Gospels? by David Alan Black (amazon.com)

Even though the author is a Baptist, his thesis and research is solid and matches well with the more traditional Catholic understanding that Matthew’s gospel was first, not Mark’s.

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Does he give reasons that support this claim? I’m genuinely interested.

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Even though he is not Catholic, from what I can remember he relies on early fathers/tradition. Basically, the earlier you get back in history, the more credible the sources.

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Basic outline:

  1. Matthew was originally in Hebrew, not Greek. He was charged by the other Apostles to write down the life of Jesus. This gospel was intended for the Jewish audience.
  2. Luke, a companion of Paul, wrote for a Gentile audience, which makes sense because of Paul being the “Apostle to the Gentiles”.
  3. Mark’s gospel was really a collection of Peter’s sermons / addresses to the Romans while being held for trial in Rome. Mark was Peter’s traveling companion and secretary of sorts.
  4. John’s was last and intended to fill in the theological gaps (such as the real presence in Ch 6)
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Matthew wrote his Gospel only fifteen years after Jesus’s public ministry, whilst the others wrote theirs even later.

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Peace to all,

TO me missing in Mark is what will be gone for only when He was gone for a Short While, to me, OMNILogically.

The Trinity of Powers Becomes again One Trinity in being through both Natures fro all One God.

Mankind is created by the Father from the failed spirit through the created souls of all for the mortal flesh, the Body to become transformed immortal from the New Eve for Jesus through the New Adam becoming The Christ in all mankind through the flesh from the Holy Spirit through the souls for all mankind becoming again One Holy Spirit Family One God in being.

I am also thinking the missing sections detailing what actually happened was either purposfully left out or even not logiclly understood or even lost during the retranslations or transmission of manuscripts, to me, logically. Both natures had to be resurrected ans the spirits in the souls had to rest somewhere and with Heaven noe open the Chasms are not needed especially not needed is the Chasm of Death, now destroyed forever through flesh.

To me, What is missing in Mark’s Gospel is what flesh does through the Chasms of the Bosom of Abraham and through Death for resurrection in Two Natures, with both natures, Incorruptibly Holy Spirit Powered and Immortal flesh in the Christ Jesus descends through death empties the Chasm of the Bosom of Abraham for those awaiting, the saints and martyrs and all the angels and Old Covenant saved and with Dismas and Longinus

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and with all, Jesus busts down the gates of Hell with flesh and binds the strong man Satan in his own home like the Parable of The Thief in the Night and we know in this story, Jesus is not the bad guy. Jesus with flesh and all from the Bosom of Abraham Jesus destroys death forever with all from the Bosom of Abraham and tears down the walls of Hell with flesh and with all Jesus ascends resurrected through both natures, spirit and life becoming again for all through the Gates of the New Heaven and Earth, Heaven for all. The Redeemer resurrects God and Temple rebirth and salvation for all in the New Heaven and Earth and The Heavens gates are now reopened for flesh from the life blood and water and spirit rebirth for all from the Cross, when He said “Ecce Mater tua,” the Church in His Passion, through the Immaculate Flesh and Mother of God in the flesh through the Immaculate Conception and God of Mercy through the New Eve, Mary all mankind becomes Baptized transformed into immortally through the flesh becoming life blood and Holy Spirit adopted brothers and sisters through the Christ becoming through the incorruptibly Holy Spirit in the New Adam for the Christ in all glorified and incorruptibly transfigured from Sacrifice through Penance forgiven re-imaged all together becoming again in One Holy Spirit Family One God in being, to me.

“My Lord and My God” said Thomas and is to me logical proof Jesus is God because those in the upper room did not take the Lord’s name in vein, to me.

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Peace always,
Stephen

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Most scholars disagree with you. It goes Mark (around AD 70), then Matthew and Luke (around AD 85-90), and finally John (around AD 90-110). I am open to another hypotheses, but it really doesn’t matter to me all that much when they were written.