![]() in which the verses are wanting while those that contain the subsequent verses were made from a more perfect text, written by St. (1) We may suppose that the writer of the Gospel wrote two copies of it, leaving one unfinished, ending at Mark 16:8 that this passed into the hands of persons by whom it was copied as complete, and so became the archetype of the MSS. Two explanations of these facts are possible. Luke’s account of the journey to Emmaus ( Luke 24:13-35), of the appearance to the ten disciples in John 20:19-25 and Luke 24:36-43, of the mission of the eleven reported in Matthew 28:16-20, of the Ascension as given by Luke 24:50-53. John’s record of our Lord’s appearance to Mary Magdalene ( Matthew 20:11-18), of St. Matthew, now becomes a very condensed epitome of St. When we turn to the internal evidence we find that the narrative, which up to this point had followed closely in the footsteps of St. 170), and are found in the Alexandrian and Cambridge MSS., and in twelve other uncials which are nearly (some say, quite) as old as the two which omit them. On the other hand, they are referred to by Irenæus (about A.D. ” and no reference is made to them in the tables of parallel passages which were constructed for reference by Eusebius and Ammonius. The absence was noticed by Jerome, who says that “nearly all the Greek texts omit them.” Eusebius states the same fact as true of “the correct MSS. Luke, as though the writer had suspended his work and waited for materials. In some of these ( e.g., in the Vatican MS.) there is a blank space left between Mark 16:8 and the beginning of St. ![]() ![]() They are not found in two of the oldest MSS.-the Sinaitic and the Vatican-are marked as doubtful in many others, and are wanting in some versions. The history of the verses that follow is in every way remarkable. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9-20) Now when Jesus was risen early.-See Notes on Matthew 28:16-20.
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