Mark 16:9-16...Inspired?

This week we will read the Scriptures from Mark 16. If you look in between verses 8 and 9 you will see a marking indicating that some of the earliest manuscripts omit verses 9-16. What is going on with that. Well the truth of the matter is that probably Mark ended with verse 8. "The women fled and told no one because they were trembling and fearful." What a crazy way to end a Gospel. But this is how Mark ended, this is how God desired that it would end.

So what is going on with 9-16, well probably what happened, is that a faithful scribe saw that this was an ending that would leave many confused...and he used the Gospels Matthew and Luke, and possibly John to fill in the rest of the story!

Is this a problem for the Christian church? Not in the slightest, as this is what any one of us would have done, and it is faithful to the work, miracle and reality of Jesus the Christ. We just have to be honest that this more than likely was not in the original manuscript that God penned through Mark. Why it ended this way...well, God only knows...what does it mean for us...it means that when we read the Scriptures we read faithfully with the lenses of inspiration of God. We also read and think critically, always reminding ourselves to be faithful to the word and work of our Lord. The scribe who filled in the rest was faithful, and used only the Scriptures that were inspired to fill in the end of Mark.

Was it penned by God...Yes...just not originally in Mark.
God Bless your reading this week!