When we think about Easter, and particularly about the appearances of the post-Resurrection Christ, we are almost certainly going to be thinking about the Gospels of Luke and John. There is good reason for this: these two Gospels have by far the most material about the risen Christ. In fact, the “original ending” of the Gospel of Mark has none at all. I put it as “original ending” because the truth is that we don’t know how the Gospel originally ended – it may have stopped at verse 16:8, or there may have been something more that is now lost, but it is certain that the longer ending that appears in our bibles was added on later, and it seems to be mostly a summary of the endings of the other three Gospels. Perhaps St Mark really did end his Gospel by saying that the women said nothing to anyone because they were afraid.
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The risen Christ in the four Gospels
when we think about easter, and particularly about the appearances of the post-resurrection christ, we are almost certainly going to be thin...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP
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