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Twist family Bible study: the Gospel of Mark
Wayne:
An example of a tomb hewn from rock at about that time. The body would be laid there for a year to decompose. Then the bones would be collected and placed in an ossuary. The tomb would then be used again later for another member of the family.
Wayne:
Well I'd like to wrap this one up for now.
I'll tell you straight: it's not what you might think.
For centuries, the authoritative gospel of Mark ended with no sightings of a resurrected Jesus.
Wayne:
The sabbath having passed, Mary the Magdalene, and Mary of James, and Salome, bought spices, that having come, they may anoint him.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mark%2016;&version=31;
Wayne:
They hoped there would be someone there to help them roll the stone away from the tomb, because it was very large.
But when they arrived, the stone had already been rolled away.
As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed.
"Don't be alarmed," he said. "You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him. But go, tell his disciples and Peter, 'He is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.' "
Trembling and bewildered, the women went out and fled from the tomb. They said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid.
And as far as we know, that is the end of the gospel of Mark.
Wayne:
Today, maybe more than any day in my life before, I want to believe in an everlasting life.
If I live long enough, I know that there will come at least two more times in my life when I will want it even more than now.
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