![]() ![]() In Vaticanus’s Old Testament portion, three blank spaces occur, but each is clearly a side-effect of a factor in the manuscript’s production: (1) a format shift from three columns per page to two columns per page (2) the convergence of two sections which were written by different scribes and (3) the end of the Old Testament portion itself. Vaticanus’s copyist did not leave any other blank columns in the New Testament. In Vaticanus, Mark 16:8 ends in the second column of a three-column page. It has no closing-title for Mark-only a short poem, the Greek equivalent of, “As travelers rejoice on their homeland to look, thus also the scribe at the end of a book.” Also, the commentary material resembles that of Theophylact, who commented about vv. Manuscript 304 contains the text of Matthew and Mark interspersed with commentary material. Let’s take a look at these three manuscripts and their anomalous features at the end of Mark. The three Greek manuscripts that end the Gospel of Mark at verse 8 are two manuscripts from the fourth century, Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus, and the twelfth-century GA 304. ( A more complete list can be viewed here.) Over 1,000 Greek lectionaries-manuscripts in which the text is arranged in segments assigned to days of the ecclesiastical calendar-also include Mark 16:9–20. They include majuscule and minuscule manuscripts such as Codex Alexandrinus (5th c.), C, D (damaged, the text up to 16:15a survives), G, K, M, S, W, Y, Δ, Ρ, Σ, 33, 35, 157, 700, etc. This means that 99.8% of Greek manuscripts include vv. And all eight proceed to include 16:9 (a few of these eight manuscripts are fragments which, due to damage, do not have all twelve verses).Īt last count, 1,653 Greek manuscripts include Mark 16:9–20. Eight Greek manuscripts have the so-called Shorter Ending (given above in italics from the ESV footnote). Three Greek manuscripts end the text of Mark at 16:8. (Some of them are damaged, but show that they had the whole passage when they were pristine). At last count, 1,653 Greek manuscripts include Mark 16:9–20. Readers might wonder what to do when facing a contest between “Some of the earliest manuscripts,” and “other” manuscripts and “some manuscripts.” Let’s dispense with such vagueness and bring the evidence into focus. These manuscripts then continue with verses 9–20.” And after this, Jesus himself sent out by means of them, from east to west, the sacred and imperishable proclamation of eternal salvation. 8,” and “some manuscripts include after verse 8 the following: But they reported briefly to Peter and those with him all that they had been told. The ESV also features a footnote, stating, “Some manuscripts end the book with 16:8 others include verses 9–20 immediately after v. “Some of the earliest manuscripts do not include Mark 16:9–20.” That’s how the ESV introduces Mark 16:9–20 in its heading between Mark 16:8 and 16:9. The next article offers a case against 16:9–20. #Which of these manuscripts does not depict matthew series#This is the first of a series on Mark’s ending. ![]()
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