But there’s one problem. Once again, this passage was not originally in the Gospel of Mark. It was added by a later scribe. In some ways this textual problem is more disputed than the passage about the woman taken in adultery, because without these final verses Mark has a very different, and hard to understand, ending. That doesn’t mean that scholars are inclined to accept the verses, as we’ll see momentarily. The reasons for taking them to be an addition are solid, almost indisputable. But scholars debate what the genuine ending of Mark actually was, given the circumstance that this ending
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