WWUTT 1740 Q&A Missing Verses in the Bible (Part 1)

This is when we understand the text a daily Bible study in the Word of God for to live is Christ and to die is gain. Tell all your friends about our ministry at Wwt .com here. Once again is pastor Gabe.

Thank you Becky. You're welcome in Romans 15 verse 4 We read whatever was written in former days was written for our Instruction that through endurance and through the encouragement of the scriptures.

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We started the first week of August in 2015. Yeah, so here we are. It's seven years. Broadcasting and what are we at now? 1 ,700 Episodes something like that. I don't remember. I don't ever think of the number until I have to type it in when I so.

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I'm not supposed to tell you those things again. Headlight look apparently. You knew instantly when you looked at me. Well, just think they're they're mostly listening to stuff. You've already said a long time ago.

That's worse than me trying to remember what I said yesterday, I don't think I mean of all these 1700 something episodes. I don't think there's one your voice is not on. Yeah, I think you're on all of them I think so.

Thanks, babe. You know, it's been fun. It has. It's also this week that we celebrated 12 years of marriage, yes. Yay. 12 wonderful years. They flew by where did we go for our anniversary for 12 years?

Alaska well. Yeah, we did that wasn't what I was thinking that anniversary. Yeah our anniversary day like that. We went to Jimmy John. Yeah, we went and had sub sandwiches. These years have gone by freaky fast freaky fast.

So we went to Jimmy John's. They are not paying us for that by the way. That's just free. That's one of Becky's favorite restaurants everybody might be going. Gabe you're a cheapskate. Why didn't you take her to a nicer place?

Hey, I offered. Yeah, I offered to go to a really nice place. She didn't even want to go out at all. Nope I'm a homebody. I remember our first date was Pizza Hut in a movie. And it was perfect it was great.

It was like hey, this is gonna work out pretty well. Pizza Hut didn't pay us for that one either. No, I mean was the last time we had Pizza Hut. About two years ago at least. Yeah, I mean we still eat plenty of pizza.

Yeah, that's a staple for our family. Definitely incidentally, you can get me to go anywhere as long as you promise me pizza. Hey Gabe, can you come preach at our church? I don't know. I'm kind of busy that weekend.

We'll give you pizza. Yeah, all right, I'll be there so so that's why I'm in Alaska they offered me pizza. At the time you're listening to this are we on our way. No we would already be there. We're already in Alaska by the time this airs.

Yes. Yeah. So oh and somebody asked hang on. I got to bring that up in the email. Well, let's say again to email now. So on the Friday edition of the broadcast. We respond to questions from the listeners and you can send those questions to When we understand the text at gmail .com.

So this question I got from Ted in San Antonio. He says pastor Gabe. I too will be traveling from Texas to Alaska this week for work. Which church will you be speaking at? Yeah, I'm gonna be at Faith Bible Fellowship Church this coming Sunday Services at 11 o 'clock.

It's in Big Lake, Alaska. Apparently Todd Friel has mentioned this church on Wretched. I didn't know that but just found that out a couple of days ago. Cool. So he's mentioned that church before and This is just by the providence of God.

Jason Lyle is gonna be there at the same time. I'm there. Oh, so neat. So you could come here Jason Lyle speak for Sunday school. I think that's like at 10 o 'clock 9 30 10 and then the sermon is at 11 or the service main service is at 11 o 'clock.

Then Jason Lyle's doing a couple of other sessions. I think they're at 2 in the afternoon and then the 6 o 'clock evening service. He's doing one then so anybody's in the area. You want to come by Faith Bible Fellowship Church in Big Lake, Alaska?

Yeah, you get to hear you'd hear me and Jason Lyle. I'm going for Jason Lyle. That's right, they offered me pizza so that's why that's why we're there. All right, let's get to some other questions here.

The Textual Basis for Missing Verses in the New Testament

This one comes from Angie and she says dear Gabe and Becky. I enjoyed the explanation of missing verses in the Bible, but I was disappointed that you only covered one. Nah, could you go through the other 15 Bible verses and Explain why they don't belong in the text.

Well, the reason why they don't belong there is because they aren't in the original text, right? I mean, that's the reason it's not because The theology is weird and so it shouldn't go there because that's the explanation for all of them, right?

That's the explanation for all of it. So because like the with the one that we looked at last week in Acts 837. It wasn't that the theology was wrong, right? It's just Luke didn't write that right? So you shouldn't put it in the text.

If we're going to be as faithful to the text as possible. It doesn't matter how much it is alike other verses in the Bible or even if that verse drew from another verse And brought that in. It's still not being faithful To what the original author wrote to the original audience.

So then my question is why didn't they just drop that all together and then? Number it. What's left? Correct. Yeah, I didn't dropping the number. I didn't explain that last week. So the numbering system came about after those verses had already been added to the text.

So when you're talking like five or six hundred years after acts was written. Mm-hmm, and that was when acts 837 got dropped in there. Okay. Well at the time there weren't chapter and verse markers. So somebody brought that into the text before the numbering system came about which was sometime around 11 1200 AD.

I can't remember exactly What century it was that that we started chapter and verse? They started adding in chapter and verses. Okay, it was certainly there by the time the King James translators, right did.

Well, even the Geneva Bible and then the King James Bible. So we'd already had that chapter and verse system in place and they didn't want to change it up because people were already Recognizing scripture right according to those chapter and verses.

And so when it just kind of came about years later that we discovered the Alexandrian manuscripts. We're finding manuscripts that were even newer newer Original even even closer to the originals. Okay, then the King James the the Byzantine manuscripts that the King James translators used.

And realizing that those earlier manuscripts don't have some of those extra added verses. And so with the more modern translations see today our translations are actually more accurate than the King James was.

Yeah, and you might think well the King James. You know, they're closer to the original writers than we are so wouldn't be wouldn't we be getting Further and further away from the original text the more the years go by.

But the reality of the situation is we have through technology Access to more manuscripts than the King King James translators had and plus we don't have to travel to different parts of the world. Right to read those manuscripts.

Yeah. They're all like digitally uploaded and you can just access them through computer. And I'm sure some of them were unearthed right if I remember right? Oh, yeah, like the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in a cave.

Yeah, you know things like that. So they they might not have had access to them at that point. Yeah, just as the years go on the technology and Archaeological discovery and things like that have given us access to more manuscripts now.

We don't have the originals. We don't have what's called the original autographs. Yeah, so when you're reading acts. Or you're reading the oldest manuscript of the book of Acts. You're not reading a manuscript that Luke actually wrote.

Okay, it's a copy of a copy, you know something that that kind of came down the line a little bit. But through all the manuscripts that we have we know with certainty that what we've got in the Bible is.

Actually, what was originally intended even a skeptic like Bart Ehrman who wrote misquoting Jesus. Okay, and of course he was popular a dozen years ago or something when it was he's writing these books that are hitting the New York Times bestseller and he's talking about.

There's like 200 ,000 variations in the New Testament and all this kind of thing and people are going whoa. Okay, but they don't understand what that means. You know, it means we have multiple manuscripts and and just one little letter difference is a variation.

Mm-hmm, and if you have that letter difference across 15 manuscripts, well, that's now 15 variations, right? So anyway, yeah. It just it just was silly. He just knew how to word it. Yeah, right. Just kind of hype it up how to bait you.

Exactly to get people's attention and sell his books essentially made a lot of money off of that. Anyway, even a guy like Ehrman admits with greater than ninety nine point five percent accuracy. What we have in the Bible is what the original authors wrote.

And it's kind of funny to hear him go through all of that because you hear him kind of like casting all this doubt. Yeah into the authenticity of the Bible and all of this and then but when somebody asked him the question.

So, what do you think the original author actually wrote his answer will be. I think it's pretty much like what we have today. Huh? So it's like well, which is it? Yeah. Do we doubt what it is that we have was original or you know?

He still maintains that over the course of the Gospels you see Myth developing right and so the miracles that get attributed to Jesus weren't you know? He didn't actually perform any miracles. That's that's Bart Ehrman.

But we know that what we read our eyewitness testimony, right as we hear from 2nd Peter chapter 1. We we are not bearing witness to you with myths that we just made up but we were eyewitnesses to his majesty.

These were not cleverly devised myths is the way that Peter puts it there. Yes, so we're reading eyewitness testimony when we look into the pages of the Bible. So how about these other verses? Let's go through these and this will pretty much be the rest of our broadcast.

This is how far we'll get. So let's look at Matthew 17. You got your phone up in front of you there. Yep, getting there like you did last week. So Matthew actually had my Bible last. Oh you did I think so I think you had your phone in your hand.

Because remember you were clicking on numbers. Oh, yeah, that's right I did have my phone not numbers the book of the Bible, but her little footnote numbers. Yeah the number five, right? Okay, so what are we Matthew what Matthew 17 and Let's start here in verse 19.

Well, this is after okay, so Jesus heals a boy with a demon. Mm-hmm. He rebuked the demon verse 18. He rebukes the demon it came out of him and the boy was healed instantly then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said why could we not cast it out because remember the disciples tried and failed right and Jesus said to them because of your little faith for truly I say to you if you have faith like the grain of a mustard seed.

You will say to this mountain move from here to there and it will move and nothing will be impossible for you as They were gathered Ali Jesus said to them the Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men and they will kill him and He will be raised on the third day and they were greatly distressed.

Did you see which verse got omitted in there? Isn't it 21. 21 21 got skipped? So after Jesus says to the disciples because of your little faith. Then you go to any two and they're gathering in Galilee.

That's what Matthew originally wrote. So what happened to verse 21? Well, if you look down in the footnotes, you got footnotes on there. I Think I have another five. Okay, so in mine it says some manuscripts insert verse 21, but this kind never comes out except by prayer and fasting.

That's with reference to the demon, okay, so go back up to verse 20 again because of your little faith. That was why the disciples weren't able to cast out the demon for truly I say to you if you have faith like the grain of a mustard seed you will say to this mountain move from here to there.

And it will move and nothing will be impossible for you. But this kind talking about the demon never comes out except by prayer and fasting. That's the verse that's been omitted. Yeah, okay. So that that would fill in my question because my question would be Because of your little faith and but they had faith because they were trying to cast it out, right?

It's not that they were doubting that but they had little faith. Yeah, but then he compares the faith of a mustard seed. Which is super tiny, right? So that's little faith that you can move a mountain.

Yeah, I'm really confused. Okay. Well now you're asking a different question. That's not the question that Angie asked. No. So so my question my question was actually answered by verse 21 that was omitted.

So. Okay. Well, why is yeah, why is verse 21 not in there though? Because it wasn't written because it wasn't in the original text, correct? So this is being borrowed from Mark 9 there in Mark 9. You have the story of Jesus casting an unclean spirit out of the boy.

Mm-hmm and in verse 27 Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up and he arose and when he had entered the house His disciples asked him privately. Why could we not cast it out? And Jesus said to them this kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer.

So his response to them in Mark is different than the response in Matthew. Some scribe who was copying Matthew decided to grab that answer from Mark probably thinking the same thing you did. Yeah. Don't leave me hanging.

I need a better explanation here. Yeah, so we took the answer in Mark and brought it over into Matthew and added to the text. So do you think they did this before they came up with a cross-referencing and that's why they came up with cross-referencing.

No, I don't know. I mean that's kind of wonder that would be that that's an assumption. I don't know. I don't know anything about. I think I think cross-referencing just came about for the sake of cross-referencing.

Because I mean that would take you to the answer rather than having to add more to the test. Well, exactly. You can just put a cross-reference little notation there and then flip over but at the time when the scribes were doing that there weren't Chapter and verse markers true.

So you couldn't have made that cross-reference until we came up with chapter and verses true. At which point it probably would have been like page number turn over to page. Yeah, grab scroll number. No, they really had books back then.

I mean even in the in the second century when these manuscripts were being copied. Uh-huh. They were writing them in books. Yeah, Paul talks about bring my books to me. Yes, so they had bound books back then just like we have when I you know, they weren't just like yeah I was gonna say they would be a little different.

It'd literally be bound but they were still bound books. Yeah, so like the oldest Manuscript the old yeah oldest manuscript that we have which is a fragment of John can't remember what that one's called p52.

It's only like the size of a credit card. Okay, but it's the oldest manuscript fragment that we have of the New Testament and it's from a book. It's not from a scroll. It's a page from a book, huh? And there's writing on the front in the back of it.

Oh neat, so they had books back then, you know, it wasn't just scrolls. We think of it all being scrolls. Everything was just rolled up with the wood handles on it, you know, yeah old-timey stuff. All right.

Where did I in there? That was just one verse. That was Matthew 17 21 now go over to chapter 18. Go to Matthew 18 and I'll start reading here in verse 10. So this is the parable of the lost sheep. Yep the account as we have it in Matthew's gospel Jesus says see that you do not despise one of these little ones.

For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my father who is in heaven. What do you think if a man has a hundred sheep and one of them has gone astray? Does he not leave the 99 on the mountain and go in search of the one that went astray and If he finds it truly I say to you he rejoices over it more than over the 99 that never went astray.

So it is not the will of my father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish. What verse got missed in there? I don't know. I was reading. Okay, good. Good. You're paying attention to the text 11.

Yep verse 11. So it went from 10 to 12 if you look down in the first in the first notes in the footnotes. It says some manuscripts adverse 11 for the Son of Man came to save the lost. That's also borrowing from Mark.

I was gonna say that I don't find that necessary. Yep, that's that's taking from Mark pulling that into Matthew and yeah, like you said that's not even necessary to have in there. Yeah, and it's not that.

They're writing something in there. That's unbiblical right because we find it elsewhere right in the Gospels. But it's not what Matthew originally wrote. So in faithfulness to the original document. Verse 11 gets omitted because somebody at some point added that in there and it's not supposed to be there.

Check. Next one go to Matthew 23. Matthew chapter 23 somebody butchered Matthew. Yeah, Matthew's got a few. This is the last one in Matthew though, okay. So Matthew 23 is where Jesus is giving the woes to the scribes and the Pharisees.

I guess it's not really butchered cuz you know, it's still biblical. It's still biblical. Yeah, just grabbed it from it. It's cut and paste. That was what you said last. Yeah, cut and paste copy cut paste.

So Matthew 23 starting in verse 13, but woe to you scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites for you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces for you neither enter Yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.

Woe to you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte and when he becomes a proselyte you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves. Woe to you blind guides as we go on in verse 16.

So what was the verse that got missed in there? 14 14 got omitted. So we went from 13 to 15. What was verse 14. Look down in the footnotes some manuscripts add here or after verse 12 verse 14. Woe to you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for you devour widows houses and for a pretense you make long Prayers therefore you will receive the greater condemnation.

Now that sounds familiar. Where else have we heard devour widows houses? I thought that was in the Bible. Yeah, it's in Mark. Mark 1240 you devour widows houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.

Exact same wording in Luke 2047 as well. So it's in Mark. It's in Luke in the woes that Jesus gives to the Pharisees. It's just not in Matthew's account. Yeah, so some overzealous scribe knows that it's in the other two synoptic Gospels.

So, why is it not in Matthew? Well, I'm gonna make sure it's in there. Yeah, and brings it in and lo and behold Matthew did not write it. It doesn't mean Jesus didn't say it, right? But it's just in the account that Matthew is giving of the woes that Jesus gave to the Pharisees.

He didn't include the mention of devouring widows houses, right? All right, so that's Matthew and the differences would be because of who their audience is and What type of writer they are not entirely right?

Yeah, I think it's more a matter of the author's intent. Yeah, rather than the audience. I think too much I think too much intent is for the audience, but I get what you're saying, right? That would make more sense.

I really think we put too much emphasis on The audience the audience when it comes to the Gospels. Okay, the letters you do need to know who the audience is. You need to know what the occasion is. Why is Paul writing this letter?

Okay, why is Peter or James or John writing this? Okay, and I think it's good to ask that with regard to the Gospels as well. But too much is placed. I think too much emphasis is placed on who the audience is.

Like for example, we're the audience too. Exactly, right? I mean, well, yeah, please speaking. Yeah, you still even have to be careful though. You can't say with first Corinthians. Well, we're the audience.

No, the church in Corinth is the audience right? That doesn't mean it doesn't have application for us. Nor does it mean that the Holy Spirit is not speaking to us, right? But you have to follow the proper course of exposition.

Yeah. It's what the author said to the original audience and the letter cannot mean today what it what it did not mean to them then. The the purpose or the meaning of the sermon that a pastor is preaching.

Mm-hmm has to be the meaning of the text. Yeah, whatever the text means that has to be the meaning of the sermon as well because it was the same yesterday today and yeah. Ever the point of the text needs to be the point of the sermon.

That's that's expository preaching. Yes. So you need to follow it properly. What did Paul say to this church? How does that connect to the gospel drawing a line to Christ in the cross and then you draw a line from there to modern?

Application but even our modern application still has to fit with the intent of the text. Yes. All right. Anyway all that to say coming back to that. So I as I mentioned too much emphasis placed on the audience because Matthew which is often said to have been written to Jews mentions Gentiles in the very beginning you have Gentiles mentioned in chapter 1 and When you get to Matthew 2, who is it that comes looking for the Christ child?

Yeah, the wise men yeah who were Gentiles. Yep, and so you you couldn't really say that exactly you couldn't really say the emphasis was on writing to Jews. It's true that Matthew is Showing that Jesus Christ according to what the Jewish Scriptures have said.

Well according to what the Hebrew Scriptures have said from the very beginning. He's showing how this is the Christ but don't let that idea of Matthew writing to a Jewish audience Overtake you. Yeah, right, right that that this is specifically to Jews or and then it will be more filter through that.

Put it through your filter. Yeah. Yeah, I said that wrong and then it'll be said Mark was written primarily to Jen or yeah. To Gentiles, uh-huh, but I don't think that's the way we should be reading Matthew Mark and Luke.

Yeah, anyway, okay. Let's let's go on before I get any more confusing there. So mark 7. Mark 7 is the next one. Okay mark 7. And I'm gonna start reading in verse 14 so this is after Jesus has rebuked the Pharisees for they teach the commandments of man rather than Commandments of God in verse 14.

He says and he called the people to him again and said to them Hear me all of you and understand there is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him but the things that come out of a person are what defile him and When he had entered the house and left the people his disciples came to him about the parable and he said to them.

Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him since it enters not his heart. But his stomach and is expelled thus he declared all foods clean.

What verse in there got omitted? 16. Yeah verse 16 was missing. So if you look down in the footnotes. Some manuscripts adverse 16 if anyone has ears to hear let him hear. That's in other accounts. Mm-hmm.

That's something Jesus certainly says definitely. But it's not in the original manuscript of Mark, right? So that verse gets cut out now, there are teachers out there who will say that the statement in verse 19.

Thus he declared all foods clean is not in the original manuscript. They're wrong. That is. That is originally something that Mark wrote that is in the earliest manuscripts. Jesus did indeed declare all foods clean.

Hmm. The on the unlearned the lies guy. I can't remember Lex Meyer. That's his name unlearned the lies on YouTube. Okay, he teaches that. So he said no, you can't just eat whatever you want. There are certain foods that are not food like pig is not actually a food.

And this statement thus he declared all foods clean is not actually in the original manuscript somebody added that in there. That's what Lex Meyer will say interest, but it's not true. It is in the original text.

All right. Next one is still in mark. Let's go to nine and There's two of them in nine almost back-to-back. Okay, so you might notice a few skips in here. Let's go to mark nine and we are in. Let's start in verse 42 Mark 9 42 Jesus says whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea and If your hand causes you to sin cut it off it is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell to the unquenchable fire and If your foot causes you to sin cut it off.

It is better for you to enter life lame. Then with two feet to be thrown in hell and if your eye causes you to sin tear it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye then with two eyes to be thrown into hell.

Where the room where the worm does not die and the fire is not quenched. What did you see omitted there? 44 and 46 correct two verses so with regard to verse 46 some manuscripts at verses 44 and 46 which are identical with verse 48.

Where the worm does not die and the fire is not quenched. So somebody just got really redundant. Yeah, and. So we're interesting where it says. Then to be crippled with two hands and go into hell to the unquenchable fire.

Where the worm does not die in the fire is not quenched. So somebody added that in there. Hmm, which became verses 46 and 40. What did we say 44 and 40 44 and 46? It's there in 48. Yeah but Mark wrote it at the end of what Jesus was saying there rather than it occurring every time that Jesus mentioned.

Being cast into hell. Yeah, okay. So it's it's pretty easy to see you know, what happened there and why that got clipped. Yeah. It's certainly not somebody's cutting stuff out of the Bible. No because they left verse 48, yeah.

So they weren't trying to get that line out of the Bible. The next one is still in mark mark 11 mark does have some additions more so than Matthew does. Okay, because you think about the mark and appendix to yeah in mark chapter 16.

So this is mark 11 and I'm gonna begin reading in verse hmm. Verse 20. This is a longer section. So I was trying to see if I could shorten it somehow. So mark 11 verse 20 the lesson from the withered fig tree as they pass by in the morning.

They saw the fig tree. This was the tree that when Jesus passed by it at the first he cursed it. Oh, yes. And so now they're seeing it withered away to its roots and Peter remembered and said to him rabbi Look the fig tree that you cursed has withered and Jesus answered them have faith in God.

Truly I say to you whoever says to this mountain be taken up and thrown into the sea and does not doubt in his heart. But believes that what he says will come to pass. It will be done for him therefore I tell you whatever you ask in prayer believe that you have received it and it will be yours and Whenever you stand praying forgive if you have anything against anyone so that your father who is in heaven may forgive you your trespass and.

They came again to Jerusalem and as he was walking in the temple the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to him. And they said by what authority are you doing these things or who gave you this authority to do them?

What got skipped? 26 verse 26. Yeah, I read that whole section because it's the verse at the very end. Yeah. That got added in there and then taken back out. So some manuscripts adverse 26. But if you do not forgive neither will your father who is in heaven forgive your trespasses.

Where do we hear that? Oh, yeah, that's elsewhere. That's in Matthew 6. That's right after Jesus gave the instruction on the Lord's Prayer. So again, it's there in the text. It's in the Bible. It wasn't like we were trying to get that phrase out of there somehow because it's back in Matthew 6.

So some scribe along the way just grabbed that statement from Matthew 6 and inserted it here into Mark 10. But Mark didn't write it. Matthew did. Okay, 11 mark 11 mark 11 26. What did I say? You said mark 10?

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Because I teach a lot from mark 10. Sometimes when I'm asked to do a sermon, I just go to mark 10. I like doing the The camel through the eye of a needle. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I like that one.

I'll teach that one from mark 10. So it's I've said it enough times now that when I I say mark something 10 First number that comes to mind. All right, let's go to mark 15. Mark chapter 15 and I'm gonna start reading here in verse 25 mark 15 starting in verse 25 and it was the third hour when they crucified him and the inscription of the charge against him read the king of the Jews and With him they crucified two robbers one on his right hand and one on his left and those who passed by derided him wagging their heads and Saying aha you who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days.

Save yourself and come down from the cross. What verse got skipped in there? 28 28 some manuscripts insert verse 28 and the scripture was fulfilled that says he was numbered with the transgressors. That's in the Gospels.

It's just not something Mark wrote. Interesting, so you still get it from the Gospels pointing back to Isaiah 53 12. There's just not a need to have to put it in mark when he's not the one that wrote it.

Yeah, and we're trying to be as faithful to the original manuscripts as possible. Yeah, and then we mentioned last week. We mentioned mark 16 now. It's not taken out of your Bible. It's still there mark 16 verses 9 through 20, which we refer to as the mark and appendix.

But you'll notice in mark 16. It says in brackets right there before verse 9. Yeah, some of the brackets. Yep, some of the earliest manuscripts do not include 16 9 through 20 hmm that was added on and Everything that we have in there Is still biblical except for the mention of the poison.

I said that last week that whole thing with the poison is kind of funny. So in verse 18, if you look at mark 16 18, well, let me go back to to verse 15. Jesus said to them go into all the world and proclaim the Gospels to the whole creation.

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved. Whatever does not believe will be condemned and These signs will accompany those who believe in my name they will cast out demons they will speak in new tongues.

They will pick up serpents with their hands and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them. They will lay their hands on the sick and they will recover. So then the Lord Jesus after he had spoken to them was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God and They went out and preached everywhere while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by accompanying signs.

Why do you have that expression. I just I'm wondering why did they leave it. Did they think it was too short to end Verse 8. Yeah, it does have an unusual conclusion to it. So you were looking back at verse 8 trying to figure out like why does it end that way?

Yeah, and then somebody tacked on you know, the poison thing was just random. Yeah, so you have the resurrection. Jesus is raised from the dead. The angels tell the women who come to the tomb do not be alarmed.

You seek Jesus of Nazareth who is crucified he has risen he is not here. See the place where they laid him. But go tell his disciples and Peter that he is going before you to Galilee there. You will see him just as he told you verse 8.