Our Christians wear that scholars believe the end of Mark is not original.

It's not even a true story. We'll discuss it on today's episode.

J. Warner Wallace is a cold-case homicide detective who's been investigating cold-case murders

in Los Angeles County for over a decade. His work has been featured on Fox News,

Date Line, and Core TV. Now, we join him as he applies his investigative skills

to making a case for Christianity.

Welcome to this edition of the cold-case Christian broadcast. I'm Jimmy Wallace.

And I'm J. Warner Wallace. We're talking about today something that I think a lot of Christians

don't even know, although it is kind of marked out and delineated in the Scriptures.

And that is the ending to the gospel of Mark. I think it raises questions for a number of reasons

we'll talk about today. But one of them is I just don't think that,

look, in our My Bible, I'm reading the ESV or the NASB. It's clearly marked out.

There's usually a gap in this text, and it'll say that this is not in the earliest manuscripts.

And it comes in right after the initial description of the resurrection.

The expanded details of what happens next are not in the gospel's earliest manuscripts.

So the question that becomes, is this an added story? Is this demonstrate, for example,

that the resurrection is a late fiction that's added to the story?

So that's really the question under consideration. As a matter of fact,

this passage, this late edition they'll say to the gospel of Mark,

is one of the things that Bart Irman cites of all the manuscript variations

that he thinks is most egregious, right? This resurrection account that's missing from the gospel of Mark.

So I know that you have done some work on this, Jimmy,

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