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For a detailed discussion see J.K. Elliott, “The Text and Language of the Endings to Mark’s Gospel,” Theologische Zeitschrift 27 (1971), pp. 255–262; reprinted in Elliott, ed., The Language and Style of the Gospel of Mark (Leiden: Brill, 1993), pp. 203–211.

For this argument see William R. Farmer, The Last Twelve Verses of Mark (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1974), pp. 70–72.

The tension between Mark 16:8 and the addition is relieved somewhat in Codex Bobbiensis by the omission of the phrase “they said nothing to anyone.”

This variant appears in the eighth-century Codex Regius, in two unnamed Greek manuscripts dating to the seventh and eighth centuries and in one Sahidic Coptic translation.

Jerome, Against Pelagius 2.15.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 3.10.6.

Justin Martyr, Apology 1.45, where he uses five words that also occur (in a different order) in 16:20.

Jerome, Letter 120.3 (to Hedibia).

From Gospel Questions and Solutions Addressed to Marinus, a lost work of which only a few excerpts, preserved in a manuscript in the Vatican Library, are known. See J. Quasten, Patrology, vol. 3, The Golden Age of Patristic Literature (Utrecht: Spectrum, 1960; reprint, Westminster, MD: Christian Classics, 1983), p. 337.