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Earlier in Mark it talks about an unnamed youth in Gethsemane who leaves his clothes behind. I think in Mark 16, this youth is the same one. I am inclined to think that's the same "angel" who in Luke 22:43 came to comfort him in Gethsemane.

Or is canonical Mark a later version of Secret Mark, but with some of the secrets removed? Would one of those secrets be the resurrection stories of Jesus? I am even skeptical though if anything like a "secret Mark" exists, based on this essay debunking it: http://www.bibleinterp.com/artic...

2. I think Mark implies that the youth in the tomb was an angel, but I think Mark's style is to write in a veiled way sometimes about divine aspects of the story, like about Jesus' divinity. So this explains for one reason why he just calls the angel a youth. matthew and luke removed the hijab/veil...

What was Mark's intended ending about the resurrection story? As a 19 year old when I read it, I was excited and very curious when I got to the end. But the original version drops off at verse 8 in chapter 16. And I think that Mark intended to do so. Whenever Luke and Matthew disagree about a sectio...

Adam wrote:Strange. I'm not aware GJohn even mentions the Apostle John. He may be referred to in John 13 and 21, however.

Who do you think the "Beloved disciple" is that the book focuses on so much?

John, James, and Peter were Pillars of the Church. The Beloved Disciple wasn't Peter.

For what it's worth, the gospel of John is biased toward John more than to any other apostle. Not to Peter or James.

This book looks good: https://books.google.com/books?id=HQGsx8ycHcsC&pg=PA333&lpg=PA333&dq=James+the+Brother+of+Jesus:+The+Key+to+Unlocking+the+Secrets+of+Early&source=bl&ots=t4c53xbQ_G&sig=vlRJMzvNDJPWeB2DrCYzN4LLWuk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiCgvD2yrvKAhVEej4KHeh7DM...

Getting back to the opening post - the explanations that I see for the two missing appearances are as follows. Each of them or some version have been proposed by different scholars. Peter 1. Jesus appeared to Peter at the tomb along with or even instead of to the women, since Paul lists the vision t...

THE FOLLOWING IS FROM: The Gospel According to the Hebrews: Its Fragments Translated and Annotated By Edward Williams Byron Nicholson CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA writes As Matthias in the Traditions, exhorting us, says, " Marvel at what is before thee," supposing this the first step to ulterior ...

Shimon ben Shetach successfully completed the expulsion of the Sadducees (a sect which denied the Oral Torah and the authority of the Sages) who had dominated the Sanhedrin (Supreme Court), replacing them with his Torah-loyal Pharisaic disciples, on the 28th of Tevet of the year 3680 from creation ...