Today’s gospel is generally known as the longer ending of Mark. It is printed in many Bibles, Roman Catholic, and Protestant. But these verses are absent from the two oldest Greek manuscripts and many other important manuscripts. Clement of Alexandria, a priest and theologian who died circa the year 215, and Origin, another Alexandrian theologian who died circa the year 254, show no knowledge of Mark’s longer ending.[1] That said, this ending is part of the King James Bible of the Church of England and the Bible of the Roman Catholic Church.
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