1 - 8 The Resurrection of Jesus - The Empty Tomb
After the Sabbath passes Mary Magdalene and Mary the Mother of James come to anoint Jesus' body with spices. When they arrive, the stone at the tomb is rolled back and a young man in a white robe says "Do not be amazed; you seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen, he is not here; see the place where they laid him. But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him, as he told you."
9 - 18 Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene - to Two Disciples - to the Eleven
19 - 20 Jesus Ascends to Heaven and the Apostles Go Forth
"And they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that attended it. Amen."
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IMPORTANT NOTE
My notes indicate that vs 9-20 may not have been written by Mark; that they are absent from some of the earliest original manuscrips, that what's here has contridicting vocabulary, style, and theological content as the rest of Mark, and that Mark either ended with vs 8 or his original ending is lost.
Here, as the women ENTERED THE TOMB, they saw a man sitting on the right side who explained that Jesus isn't there and to tell the disciples to go to Galilee where they will see him.
9-20 After Jesus rose, he first appeared to Mary Magdalene "out of whom he had driven 7 demons". Jesus then appeared "in another form" to 2 disciples "walking in the country". He then appeared to all 11 at a meal, rebuked them their lack of faith both in him and those who had seen him.
16 "Whoever believes and is baptised will be saved, but those who do not believe will be condemned."
Jesus also says that believers will be able to: drive out demons, speak in tongues, pick up snakes, survive drinking poison, and heal the sick by touching them.
I do agree with the notes that this last section seems different from the rest. Those "signs of believers" are strange. Notes indicate that "drinking poison without harm" isn't recorded anywhere in the NT. This last section is missing the details of authority; it seems abridged, hurried, or like a "tag". The fact that it contains a quote by Christ seems out of place to me also. The quote doesn't seem appropriate.
Research on this last section would be interesting.
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