Who wrote Mark 16:9–20?
Who wrote Mark 16:9–20?
I have spent the last 20 years trying to understand the authority and authorship of the end of the Book of Mark. People who claim the ending is, "But they reported briefly to Peter and those with him all that they had been told. And after this, Jesus himself (appeared to them and) sent out by means of them, from east to west, the sacred and imperishable proclamation of eternal salvation.
Two manuscripts don't have it, Sinaiticus and Vaticanus, which are both from the fourth century. All manuscripts prior include the passage. There are 23 out of