these fourth-century witnesses, Sinaiticus and Vaticanus, peculiar in their scale and contents but that their texts too were untypical. As far as the endings of Mark are concerned, the examples set by Sinaiticus () and Vaticanus (B), and possibly the other forty-eight copies also prepared for Constantine,4 were not followed. I do not wish to impugn B or even with generic unreliability or to suggest they were maverick copies. B in particular seems to have an ancient pedigree5 yet we cannot ignore its or 's distinctiveness here at the end of Mark.
He seems to be in love with his own writing.
