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add another source, re: the unlikely ending of a book with a conjunction as at the end of Mark 16:8
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→Appears copied from later-written Gospels
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It is known that the Gospel of Mark was written before the Gospel of Luke and the Gospel of John, but sentences in Mark 16:9-20 appear to be copied from them, such as the statement demons and Mary Magdalene o which Mark is unlikely to
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moving this section about Mark's Greek to the Gospel of Mark entry
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Appreciation of the original ending to the Gospel of Mark can help overcome addiction, and motivate to achieve. This real ending, stripped of the liberal denial, is a phenomenal collision of disbelief and faith, with faith prevailing. It
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mThe '''Mark ending''' — the final chapter 16 to the Gospel of Mark — is the most spectacular in all of history and literature, in its original form. But it was been polluted by liberal vandalism with liberal denial, similar to soot obscuri
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caused most English translations to mistranslate the authentic first part of the verse as "fled" -- an act of fear -- when the proper translation is "ran back." See Mistranslation of Mark 16:8.
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→Mark's Greek: "syntactical inconsistency or incoherence within a sentence" (Merriam-Webster) but the one at the end of Mark 16:8 is not Mark's
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→Uncharacteristic use of the concept of fear by Mark: afraid to ask a question of Jesus, who was the master, which is a common type of fear that everyone has often; nothing like supposedly being afraid to tell friends about something joyful as in Mark
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→Uncharacteristic use of the concept of fear by Mark
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→Unlikely ending as to Greek syntax - the last word of 16:8 cannot be the real ending: As one commentator observed about the implausibility of "γάρ" as an ending
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→Uncharacteristic use of the concept of fear by Mark: highlight with bolding
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→Uncharacteristic use of the concept of fear by Mark: Verses by Mark using "fear"
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Mark's Greek
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→Other analysis: A discussion on stack exchange tries to make sense of the nonsensical, added ending of the falsely added phrase saying that women told no one (even more absurdly, no man).
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→Uncharacteristic use of the concept of fear by Mark: building a table of 12 references
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→uncharacteristic use of the concept of fear by Mark
Mark uses variations on the Greek word for fear -- ἐφοβοῦντο -- about a dozen time through his Gospel, but none of his other uses are about any women being afraid of Jesus. Rather, the Gospel of Mark is notably for its boldness, an
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→Misuse of conjunction in added clause: Yet that is how it is used in this doubtful phrase at the end of Mark 16:8, adversative to the command preceding it that the women "tell Peter and the disciples of Jesus" that Jesus will visit them.
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καί (pronounced kahee)is the most common conjunction in the New Testament, but it is never used in an adversative manner: it never means "however" or "but". Yet that is how it is used in this doubtful phrase at the end of Mark 16:8, adversative t
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→Flawed, never-used-elsewhere Greek grammar: so illogically it is the functional equivalent of "nothing nothing."
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→Unlikely ending as to Greek syntax - the last word of 16:8 cannot be the real ending: Scholars have scoured all of Greek writings for any example of this, and the only instance they found was a volume that was part of a larger collection of works.
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→Greek syntax of the last word of 16:8 disproves its authenticity: Unlikely ending as to Greek syntax - the last word of 16:8 cannot be the real ending
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→Implausible ending: rename "Unlikely ending as to meaning"
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→Greek syntax of the last word of 16:8 disproves its authenticity: Having "γάρ" as the last word of a book is as unlikely as having "since" or "because" as the last word of a book.
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→Variations in Mark 16:8: "γάρ" is a conjunction meaning "for" or "since", with the reason to follow. It is exceedingly unlikely that the word "γάρ" would be the last word in a book.
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