Pastor Shaun Marksbury

  The Account of the Adulterous Woman (John 7:53–8:11 ) Series:               “John: Life in Christ’s Name”           Text:                 John 7:53–8:11 By:                    Shaun Marksbury                         Date:                August 13, 2023 Venue:              Living Water Baptist Church             Occasion:             AM Service   ...

  We approach a whole section of Scripture around which many of our Bible translations place brackets and footnotes.  What are we supposed to think about this?  In this message, we consider the history of the Bible and see that such matters give us great confidence in the text!  Title: Introduction to Biblical Textual Criticism Speaker: Shaun Marksbury Bible: John 7:53-8:11; Mark 16:9-20 Date: August 6, 2023

Good Christians disagree on this, so don't make it a test of orthodoxy.  The point is that we have the evidence to examine and debate, meaning that the text is trustworthy (a lack of debatable evidence would imply collusion and tampering).  Still, the evidence seems to point to Mark's Gospel ending on v. 8.  Here are a few resources I used in preparation for this topic.  They may help you to better understand the issue.  The first is a section from the MacArthur Study Bible: The external evidence strongly suggests these verses were not originally part of Mark’s gospel. While the majority of Gr. manuscripts contain these verses, the earliest and most reliable do not. A shorter ending also existed, but it is not included in the text. Further, some that include the passage note that it was missing from older Gr. manuscripts, while others have scribal marks indicating the passage was considered spurious. The fourth-century church fathers Eusebius and Jerome note...

Here's a good list of articles for those wanting a bit more introduction on this subject: An Introduction to Textual Criticism: Part 1–Introduction An Introduction to Textual Criticism: Part 2–The Writing and Transmission of Ancient Documents An Introduction to Textual Criticism: Part 3–Textual Errors An Introduction to Textual Criticism: Part 4–The Role of Church History in Textual Criticism An Introduction to Textual Criticism: Part 5–The Received Text An Introduction to Textual Criticism: Part 6–The Challenge to the Received Text An Introduction to Textual Criticism: Part 7–The Task of Textual Criticism: Weighing the Evidence An Introduction to Textual Criticism: Part 8–“Traditional Text” Positions: Textus Receptus and Majority Text Only An Introduction to Textual Criticism: Part 9–“Traditional Text” Positions: The Ecclesiastical Text An Introduction to Textual Criticism: Part 10–“Traditional Text” Positions: Byzantine-Priority An Introduction to Textual Criticism: ...

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