Jim's claim about the longer ending of Mark: the final verses of Mark 16 were added in the 13th century by a Jewish council to harmonize it with other Gospels

Fourth major claim Mike refutes — the textual history of Mark's ending

Refutation: early manuscripts from well before the 13th century already contain the longer ending of Mark; the addition was likely scribal, not conciliar — probably constructed from Luke, Acts, and Matthew to give public readings a more complete feel

Mike explains the actual textual history of Mark's longer ending

Recommendation: Mike has a three-video playlist on translations and complex textual issues related to the Bible, covering topics like the longer ending of Mark and textual variants

Answer to 'The Real Effects' about where to find more on Mark and Scripture authority

Mark 16:9-20 (the longer ending) is likely not original to the gospel

Responding to a question from Max Bolser about Mark 16:17-18 and signs following believers

Why Keep the L.E. of Mark in the Bible?: If the longer ending of Mark isn't original, nor written by Mark, how is keeping it in the Bible not diluting the Word of God and cheapening the meaning of "Scripture"?

Q&A question: Why Keep the L.E. of Mark in the Bible?

About the LE of Mark: You've said that we should leave in the longer ending of Mark's Gospel because removing it could upset some Christians. If this is so, then should we be including things like the Comma Johanneum because removing that has upset some Christians? Where do you believe we should draw the line, and why?

Q&A question: About the LE of Mark

<Untitled Chapter 1>

How Would I Interpret the Longer Ending of Mark

Response of Unbelief

The Disciples Refused To Believe the Report of Jesus Being Risen

Single Mode Hallucination

Multimodal Hallucinations

The Call of Jesus To Bring the Gospel to Everyone

Thief on the Cross

Is Cornelius in Acts 10

Romans Chapter Four

The Great Commission

Verse 17

Jesus Is Casting Out Demons

Luke 10 19

Do the Signs Follow every Believer

How Do You Know You'Re a Christian How Do You Show You'Re a Christian to Others

Psalm 110

1..Mike admits his bias

2..Why this research was so hard

3..Mike’s basic conclusions on the passage

4..Here begins the external evidence analysis

5..Codex Sinaiticus

6..Codex Vaticanus

7..How important are those 2 manuscripts really?

8..Codex 304; a Byzantine MS that ends at vs. 8

9..Other Greek manuscripts that weigh in on this

10..Syriac translations

11..Armenian translations

12..Georgian translations

13..Sahidic translations

14..Latin translations

15..Lectionary systems

16..What church fathers have to say

17..Irenaeus (c. 180)

18..Tatian (c. 170)

19..Eusebius (mid 300s)

20..Jerome (early 400s)

21..Victor of Antioch (5th or 6th century)

22..Clement of Alexandria

23..Origen

24..1st Clement (c. 95)

25..My thoughts on Lunn and Snapp

26..Conclusion on the church fathers

27..What is the “internal evidence”?