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What Do You Do With The End Of Mark’s Gospel? - The Gospel Coalition | Canada

What Do You Do With The End Of Mark’s Gospel?

I don’t own a commentary written in the last 100 years that argues in favour of the longer ending of Mark’s Gospel. Not one. “It is virtually certain that 16:9–20 is a later addition and not the original ending of the Gospel of Mark.” (James R. Edwards, The Gospel According to Mark, Pillar New Testament Commentary. Accordance electronic ed. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002), 497.) “The earliest Greek, versional and patristic evidence supports the conclusion that Mark ended his Gospel at Ch. 16:8.” (William Lane, The Gospel of Mark, The New International Commentary on the New Testament. (Grand Rapids: William B. … Continue reading What Do You Do With The End Of Mark’s Gospel?