MARK—NOTE ON MARK 16:1 Once the SABBATH is over (at sundown on Saturday evening), the women can buy oils for embalming of the corpse after sunrise on Sunday morning (THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK). This occurred on the “third day” (see Mark 8:31; Mark 10:34). ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = [ Continue Reading ]
MARK—NOTE ON MARK 16:5 THEY SAW A YOUNG MAN. An angel. Luke 24:4 and John 20:12 give additional information and say there were two angels, but Mark and Matthew mention only one (see Matthew 28:2). ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElemen [ Continue Reading ]
MARK—NOTE ON MARK 16:7 GO, TELL HIS DISCIPLES. In NT times, the testimony of women as witnesses was not always believed, especially in a court of law. After the initial encounters with the risen Jesus in Jerusalem, GALILEE again served as a place of preparation (as Jesus had predicted in Mark 14:28)... [ Continue Reading ]
MARK—NOTE ON MARK 16:8 THEY SAID NOTHING TO ANYONE. Their silence would be only temporary (see Matthew 28:8). ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
MARK—NOTE ON MARK 16:9 “Longer Ending of Mark.” Some ancient manuscripts of Mark’s Gospel contain these verses and others do not. Early church fathers did not appear to know of these verses. Eusebius and Jerome state that this section is missing in most manuscripts available at their time. And some... [ Continue Reading ]