How I Would Interpret The Longer Ending of Mark: The Mark Series pt 68 (16:9-20)

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Mike Winger

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🗓️ 16 August 2021

⏱️ 101 minutes

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This passage is probably most well known because of its abuse by snake handling preachers in the United States. I will address that issue but it's far from the only important thing to talk about in these verses! Though the snake comments in the passage get a lot of attention from normal people, scholars are mostly interested in the question of whether the passage belongs in the Gospel of Mark at all. But, today I'm not answering the question of whether the last 12 verses of Mark are authentic or not. I'm just answering the question of how I would interpret the passage as it stands. Next week I'll deal with the complex issues related to whether the passage belongs in Mark in the first place. This is part 68 of the Mark Series, going verse-by-verse through the Gospel of Mark. Today we are in Mark 16:9-20. See the WHOLE Gospel of Mark playlist here:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ3iRMLYFlHuGenHwUdeiQ5M-uj5XW4sF I have live videos Mondays and Fridays at 1 p.m. Pacific Time. Monday is a Bible study and Friday is a Q&A. Feel free to use my videos in your own gatherings as an aid to studying Scripture. My website: https://BibleThinker.org

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0:00.0	All right, we have a lot to cover today. You may know this passage in the Gospel of Mark
0:09.7	the last 12 verses which is Mark 16 verses 9 through 20. You may know this section as involving
0:16.0	the snake handling passage. We're going to talk about that today and I'll demonstrate like how
0:20.7	I would interpret the passage that talks about believers being protected from snake and poison.
0:25.7	It's also known as a passage people use to say that every believer needs to be baptized in order
0:30.8	to be saved. I'm going to refute that or attempt to refute that today. Hopefully you'll be
0:35.6	something good to think about. And also it's a passage used by some to say that things like
0:40.2	speaking and tongues are required to follow every believer. You're not a believer if you haven't
0:44.9	spoken tongues. So this is needless to say a controversial or difficult passage for normal
0:49.6	Christians but among scholars it's known for a whole different reason. This passage in the
0:54.3	Gospel of Mark verses 9 through 20 is called the longer ending and most scholars have concluded that
1:00.8	it doesn't actually belong in the Gospel of Mark in the first place. Now I know that hearing that
1:05.9	can kind of freak out a little bit. I'm going to talk about all that next week. That's not what I'm
1:09.3	covering this week. This is what they call the longer ending and that's what I'm going to call it
1:13.0	in the context of today's study. I'm not trying today to weigh in on whether it belongs in Mark
1:17.9	month saving that for next week. I have a lot more hours of work I want to put into that particular
1:21.3	message of research so I can get clarity for myself to bring hopefully clarity to you. We're
1:26.5	going to talk about manuscript evidence and church fathers and their quotes internal evidence
1:30.3	like vocabulary and style and doesn't match the rest of Mark. All that kind of stuff next week.
1:36.1	Today I'm just asking this question. How would I interpret the longer ending of Mark? Because a lot
1:40.8	of commentaries they hit this passage verses 9 through 20 and they literally don't offer an
1:45.7	interpretation like the commentary just ends because they think yeah it's probably not authentic. I'm
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