Forgery of the Gospel of Mark? This controversy has been covered many times over the years.
It is now widely
accepted that Mark’s contribution to the four gospels has been
added to and rewritten in part if not totally embellished. Synoptic
simply means; generally to speak as one. The synoptics relate to
Matthew Mark and Luke yet Mark’s gospel omits stories the other so
called synoptic gospels mention.
There is no
immaculate conception, no virgin birth, no husband Joseph and
astonishingly there is no resurrection!
So let us
concentrate on just this one aspect that the whole of Christianity is
founded on; the promise of the resurrection.
When we read Mark’s
gospel today there is in most bibles the familiar ending of Jesus
rising from the dead and appearing to his disciples Mark16:9-20
But it is accepted
that the original ending to Mark has no resurrection and it simply
ends with the women finding the tomb empty and running away in fear
and telling no one and that, as they say is that! Mark16:8
Indeed some bibles
still have this abrupt ending at Mark16:8 but those that do have the
extended embellished addition will notice that it is usually
accompanied the with notes admitting that verses from Mark16:9-20
were added at a much later time and “do not appear in the original
manuscript”.
Is this then also why in the
bible we won’t read about Jesus the “raising” his great friend
Lazarus in either Matthew Mark, Luke but only in John?
I have read that according to Jewish law that the soul leaves the body after three days and returns to god? But in this story Jesus hangs around down by the river for four days before returning to Bethany to call the "stinking" Lazarus back to the land of the living.
When these gospels
are read even summarily it is not difficult to notice that Matthew is
always either taking away or embellishing on the other authors.
A good example can
be read here:
The daughter is only
“dying” in Mark but stone cold “dead” in Matthew.
The not so “dead” only dying daughter.
Mark
5:23He
pleaded earnestly with him, “My little daughter is dying.
Please come and put your hands on her
so that she will be healed and live.”
Matthew
9:18
While
he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler,
and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.
Note
those word again “a
certain” ruler.
A
women touches Jesus’ cloak
Mark
5:29-31 Immediately
her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from
her suffering At
once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned
around in the crowd and asked,“Who touched my clothes?”
“You
see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and
yet you can ask,‘Who touched me?’”
Matthew
9:20-22 And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of
blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his
garment: For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment,
I shall be whole.
But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of
good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made
whole from that hour.
Yes,
even his disciples had to question that blinder. Interesting it is
that Jesus didn’t know in this instance who had touched him, but
can actually read minds in other parts of the bible.
And
did you know, that Jesus gave his disciples the power to cast out
demons? Matthew
10:1 & Mark
3:15
But
by biblical accounts, not all demons!??
Matthew
17:19-20 & Mark 9:29
Yet
we are told that the bible is easily understandable, unambiguous#55
and that the gospel authors are crystal clear on what they are
conveying..#62
It
is not until one realises that “dead” does not mean “dead” and that “demon
or devil” does
not mean possessed by an evil spirit that one can start to begin to realise
what is going on in these ambiguous half stories that make up the
gospels.