10 Resurrection
Channel: Richard Jordan
Date: 2021-03-30

This is arguably the most important matter of interpretation in Mark's Gospel, perhaps in the NT as a whole. Certainly there can be no more significant issue about textual criticism: Did Mark intend is work to finish at 16:8 or is there a missing ending?
The question really only arises because we find it hard to accept the ending - to many it just doesn't seem to be how the Good News of Jesus Christ could possibly end.
I show how Mark's ending at 16:8 is entirely consistent with the whole of the rest of his work and properly concludes it. This is the most wonderful Good News, and especially for those who in desperate need of hearing that, in spite of failure they are loved and commissioned to be ambassadors of the Gospel.