Sometimes when reading the Bible we may struggle to find meaning. We may seek something profound in a passage when the passage may be simple, or we may want to believe that a Passage is obvious at having more meaning to it than we give it credit for. Those who delight in God’s Word may find it interesting to seek out the very essence. Submitted for your approval, Mark 16:14–20.
Now some regard Mark as being the least articulate when the four Gospels are discussed, but as it is in the Bible along with the other three Gospels, Mark’s Gospel isn’t any less important.
Mark 16:14–20 covers the end of Jesus’ tangible appearance on earth. As the word “tangible” includes something which can be seen, Jesus’ appearance was tangible since his image was seen even if he wasn’t in the flesh at that point. Mark’s Gospel along with others, implies that Jesus appears in a ghostly form to his disciples after he was crucified and laid to rest.
He is angry with his disciples for not believing he appeared to two of them (One may be reminded of Doubting Thomas in the Book of John, who didn’t believe that Jesus appears to the other disciples.), and he rails against them for “their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen.” When Jesus ‘calms down,’ one might be compelled to say, he commissions his disciples to ““Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.” Then, as it says in Verse 19, he was “taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.”
But that’s not all…Verse 20 says, “And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by accompanying signs.” Some questions remain:
1) Did Jesus come back down to accompany them?
2) If he didn’t, how did he convey his “accompanying signs”?
Nothing more is said in the Book of Mark as it ends.
If Jesus wasn’t with them, one possibility remains on how he could have “worked with” his disciples and convey his “accompanying signs”: He was with them in spirit, and the signs were initiated from Heaven. Who would dispute that to this day, such signs are everywhere, produced from Heaven whenever an event involves associations with Jesus and God?
Now some regard Mark as being the least articulate when the four Gospels are discussed, but as it is in the Bible along with the other three Gospels, Mark’s Gospel isn’t any less important.
Mark 16:14–20 covers the end of Jesus’ tangible appearance on earth. As the word “tangible” includes something which can be seen, Jesus’ appearance was tangible since his image was seen even if he wasn’t in the flesh at that point. Mark’s Gospel along with others, implies that Jesus appears in a ghostly form to his disciples after he was crucified and laid to rest.
He is angry with his disciples for not believing he appeared to two of them (One may be reminded of Doubting Thomas in the Book of John, who didn’t believe that Jesus appears to the other disciples.), and he rails against them for “their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen.” When Jesus ‘calms down,’ one might be compelled to say, he commissions his disciples to ““Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.” Then, as it says in Verse 19, he was “taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.”
But that’s not all…Verse 20 says, “And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by accompanying signs.” Some questions remain:
1) Did Jesus come back down to accompany them?
2) If he didn’t, how did he convey his “accompanying signs”?
Nothing more is said in the Book of Mark as it ends.
If Jesus wasn’t with them, one possibility remains on how he could have “worked with” his disciples and convey his “accompanying signs”: He was with them in spirit, and the signs were initiated from Heaven. Who would dispute that to this day, such signs are everywhere, produced from Heaven whenever an event involves associations with Jesus and God?
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