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| | The Greek grammar for Mark 16:8b is flawed: "to no one nothing they spoke,"<ref>https://biblehub.com/text/mark/16-8.htm</ref> which reinforces the likelihood that this phrase was a later, non-authentic addition. In Greek the phrase is a nonsensical "οὐδενὶ οὐδὲν," both of which are variations on "nothing" so illogically it is the functional equivalent of "nothing nothing." Neither Mark nor any other biblical author uses that phrase anywhere else, and it is unlikely to have been written by anyone knowledgeable of Greek. It is impossible to translate coherently.<ref>https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/75642/does-the-phrase-%CE%BF%E1%BD%90%CE%B4%CE%B5%CE%BD%E1%BD%B6-%CE%BF%E1%BD%90%CE%B4%E1%BD%B2%CE%BD-%CE%B5%E1%BC%B6%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%BD-in-mark-168-mean-that-the-women-could-not</ref> | | The Greek grammar for Mark 16:8b is flawed: "to no one nothing they spoke,"<ref>https://biblehub.com/text/mark/16-8.htm</ref> which reinforces the likelihood that this phrase was a later, non-authentic addition. In Greek the phrase is a nonsensical "οὐδενὶ οὐδὲν," both of which are variations on "nothing" so illogically it is the functional equivalent of "nothing nothing." Neither Mark nor any other biblical author uses that phrase anywhere else, and it is unlikely to have been written by anyone knowledgeable of Greek. It is impossible to translate coherently.<ref>https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/75642/does-the-phrase-%CE%BF%E1%BD%90%CE%B4%CE%B5%CE%BD%E1%BD%B6-%CE%BF%E1%BD%90%CE%B4%E1%BD%B2%CE%BD-%CE%B5%E1%BC%B6%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%BD-in-mark-168-mean-that-the-women-could-not</ref> |
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| − | == Misuse of conjunction in added clause == | + | == Misuse of conjunction in the added clause == |
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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".<ref>https://biblehub.com/greek/2532.htm</ref> 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. | | 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".<ref>https://biblehub.com/greek/2532.htm</ref> 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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| − | ==Variations in Mark 16:8== | + | == uncharacteristic use of the concept of fear by Mark == |
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| | + | [[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, and for describing the fear by [[Herod]], [[Pharisee]]s and others in positions of power of Jesus and the people. |
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| | + | == Variations in Mark 16:8 == |
| | The verse for Mark 16:8 in [[Codex Sinaiticus]] is different from that in Biblehub and other sources based on early manuscripts. Codex Sinaiticus has the nonsensical double word ("οὐδενὶ οὐδὲν"), while Biblehub does not and instead ends with only οὐδενὶ, which is Strong's 3762 (meaning: no one, none, nothing), which Biblehub translates in brackets as "[a word to anyone]." | | The verse for Mark 16:8 in [[Codex Sinaiticus]] is different from that in Biblehub and other sources based on early manuscripts. Codex Sinaiticus has the nonsensical double word ("οὐδενὶ οὐδὲν"), while Biblehub does not and instead ends with only οὐδενὶ, which is Strong's 3762 (meaning: no one, none, nothing), which Biblehub translates in brackets as "[a word to anyone]." |
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