Mark 16

The TorahRooted Bible (TRB), translated directly from the Hebrew and Greek.

The resurrection

¹ When Shabbat was past, Miriam Magdalene, Miriam the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might come and anoint Him. ² And very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen. ³ And they said among themselves, "Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?" ⁴ But when they looked up, they saw that the stone had been rolled away, for it was very large. ⁵ And entering the tomb, they saw a young man clothed in a long white robe sitting on the right side; and they were alarmed. ⁶ But he said to them, "Do not be alarmed. You seek Yeshua the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen; He is not here. See the place where they laid Him. ⁷ But go, tell His disciples, and Peter, that He is going before you into Galilee; there you will see Him, as He said to you." ⁸ And they went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and amazement had seized them. And they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.

Yeshua appears to His disciples

⁹ Now having risen, early on the first day of the week He appeared first to Miriam Magdalene, out of whom He had cast seven demons. ¹⁰ She went and told those who had been with Him, as they mourned and wept. ¹¹ And when they heard that He was alive and had been seen by her, they did not believe.

¹² After that, He appeared in another form to two of them as they walked and went into the country. ¹³ And they went and told it to the rest, but they did not believe them either.

¹⁴ Later He appeared to the eleven as they reclined at the table; and He rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who had seen Him after He had risen. ¹⁵ And He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. ¹⁶ He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. ¹⁷ And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; ¹⁸ they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover."

Yeshua taken up into heaven

¹⁹ So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of Elohim. ²⁰ And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs. Amen.

Notes

• 16:2 "The first day of the week" is mia sabbatōn, literally "one of the Shabbats": "Shabbats" stands for the week, counted from one Shabbat to the next, and "one" is a Hebrew way of saying "first," as in "one day" (Genesis 1:5); it names the day and does not rename Shabbat. Mark says the women bought spices "when Shabbat was past" (verse 1), while Luke says they prepared spices and then rested on Shabbat (Luke 23:56); many note that both fit if a feast Shabbat and the weekly Shabbat fell in that week, while others think of more than one purchase (see the note at Matthew 28:1). The verse tells when the women came to the tomb, not at what hour He rose; John 20:1 says Miriam Magdalene came "while it was still dark," and many think the women set out in the dark and arrived as the sun rose.
• 16:7 Only Mark has "and Peter": the disciple who had denied Him three times (14:66-72) is named in the message, so that he would know he was still counted among them. An early tradition, recorded by Papias in the early second century and preserved by Eusebius, says that Mark wrote down what Peter preached.
• 16:9 Verses 9-20 stand in the great majority of Greek manuscripts and were known in the second century (Irenaeus quotes verse 19), and the TRB, following the Majority Text, includes them; some early manuscripts end the Gospel at verse 8, and many modern Bibles set these verses apart. Greek has no commas, and "early on the first day of the week" can go with "having risen" or with "He appeared"; read the second way, as the TRB punctuates it, the verse tells when He appeared, not the hour He rose. Here "the first day of the week" is prōtē sabbatou, with the singular.
• 16:18 Acts tells of such signs as they came about: demons cast out in Yeshua's name (Acts 16:18), new tongues (Acts 2:4), Paul unharmed by a viper's bite and laying hands on the sick (Acts 28:3-8). They are given as promises to those sent out with the message, not as a command to take up serpents or drink poison to put Elohim to the test (compare Deuteronomy 6:16).
• 16:19 "Sat down at the right hand of Elohim" takes up Psalm 110:1, "Sit at My right hand," which Yeshua had applied to Himself before the high priest (14:62). Here Mark calls Him "the Lord" (kyrios), as the apostles did after His resurrection (Acts 2:36).

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