06-23-2012, 02:25 AM
Not sure about scribes motives back in those days, but the modern scribes, who edit various English (ESV, NIV) versions of the Bible, don't seem to think it was spoken by Jesus in those two verses, and a number of other verses...because they don't find them in the 4th century Greek "Alexandrian" MSS of the NT....But they should tell that to the Christians who lived in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd centuries, long before those earliest Greek copies (4th century, that is shown to lack those verses) could be read...The Christians before that time, who had these words recorded as the words of Jesus in their Bible, knew well that they were the word of God.
If they could go back in time and try to erase those verses/words out of those Christian's Bibles...I don't think it would go over too good for them.
Mark 9:44 ?Where their worm does not die and their fire is not quenched.?- It is witnessed in The Eastern Aramaic ?Peshitta? Bible (1st century), Tatian?s ?Diatessaron? Gospel Harmony (160 A.D.) it was in Ireneaus? Bible (180 A.D.) as quoted in his book ?Against Heresies? Book II: 32
Mark 9:46 ?Where their worm does not die and their fire is not quenched.?- It is witnessed in The Eastern Aramaic ?Peshitta? Bible (1st century), and Tatian?s ?Diatessaron? Gospel Harmony (160 A.D.)
I have done some research on the various omitted verses in the modern English versions, and have found that but for one verse, they all date earlier than the earliest Greek text that lacks them, showing that they were part of Christian's Bibles in the 1st-3rd centuries. If you want to know about other verses, I can share what I have found.
Shlama,
Chuck
If they could go back in time and try to erase those verses/words out of those Christian's Bibles...I don't think it would go over too good for them.
Mark 9:44 ?Where their worm does not die and their fire is not quenched.?- It is witnessed in The Eastern Aramaic ?Peshitta? Bible (1st century), Tatian?s ?Diatessaron? Gospel Harmony (160 A.D.) it was in Ireneaus? Bible (180 A.D.) as quoted in his book ?Against Heresies? Book II: 32
Mark 9:46 ?Where their worm does not die and their fire is not quenched.?- It is witnessed in The Eastern Aramaic ?Peshitta? Bible (1st century), and Tatian?s ?Diatessaron? Gospel Harmony (160 A.D.)
I have done some research on the various omitted verses in the modern English versions, and have found that but for one verse, they all date earlier than the earliest Greek text that lacks them, showing that they were part of Christian's Bibles in the 1st-3rd centuries. If you want to know about other verses, I can share what I have found.
Shlama,
Chuck