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The so-called long ending of Mark contains a lot of things. In fact, the Lutheran Confessions

cited in eight different places, about 16 different times, not directly quoting every time,

but making allusions to it, and then in other places directly quoting it.

Now, it's the scholarly consensus that this is

not from Mark's pen and that it doesn't belong as a proper part of Mark's gospel. It has Jesus appearing

to Mary Magdalene, Jesus appearing to two other disciples, and Mark's version of the Great Commission.

Why is it often rejected by scholars? Well, the two earliest

manuscripts that we have for the New Testament, Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus. Codex is just a

fancy word for book. Do not include the longer ending. What could a more scientific approach to textual criticism, the study of variants like that,

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