We have hundreds of manuscripts of the Gospel of Mark, and no two are exactly the same.

From spelling errors to deliberate, theologically driven changes, each scribe put their own mark on the Gospel.

Today, Dr Bart Ehrman joins me to discuss the hows and the whys of these rewrites.

Welcome to Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman. The only show where a six-time New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned Bible

scholar uncovers the many fascinating, little-known facts about the New Testament, the historical

Jesus and the rise of Christianity.

I'm your host, Megan Lewis.

Let's begin.

Welcome back everybody to misquoting Jesus, where today we are talking about what changes scribes made to the Gospel of Mark.

We've also got listeners questions at the end where I'll be asking whether the writers of the Gospels

were influenced by Greek literature,

so be sure to stick around for that.

Before all of that, though, Bart, how are you today?

Yeah, I'm doing quite well.

I've got just a few weeks left in my teaching career.

And as I've been writing letters of recommendation and meeting with students, which I enjoy doing,

but, and as I, you know, I have committee meetings and things, I'm thinking, oh, boy,

if I, yeah, this is going to be great.

So I'm looking forward to that, and I'm going to very much miss the undergraduate classroom.

So yeah, how are you doing these days?

Also good. Not teaching undergraduates. I had a presentation for a group of high schoolers a couple of weeks ago, which was really fun.

I love talking to them. I do the same thing for this school every year, and they always have

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