Open English Translation MARK Chapter 16

16 After the Rest Day was over, Maria from Magdala and Maria the mother of Yacob and Salome, went and bought some traditional burial spices that evening to take to the burial chamber and place with the body. 2 Then very early on Sunday morning they went to the chamber, arriving just as the sun was rising. 3 But they realised that they didn’t have anyone with them to roll the rock away that was covering the entrance. 4 However, when they looked they saw that the very large rock had already been rolled away. 5 So they went on into the burial chamber and were totally stunned to find a young man dressed in white, sitting in there on the side.

6 He assured them, “Don’t be surprised. I know you’re looking for Yeshua from Nazareth, the one who was executed on a pole. But see there where his body was—he’s not there because he came back to life. 7 [ref]So you three should go and tell his trainees, and Peter in particular, that he’s going to go up ahead of them to Galilee and you’ll all see him up there, just as he already told you.”

8 So they left the chamber and took off running, still stunned and shaking and too scared to stop and to talk to anyone.It’s not certain whether or not the following longer ending of this document was actually penned by Mark, or whether it was appended slightly later. Expert scholars are divided on this, and hence it’s included here for your consideration:

12 Later on, Yeshua appeared in a different form to two of his followers on the path as they left Yerusalem and headed out to the countryside, 13 but when they hurried back and told the others, no one believed them.

14 Later again when the eleven trainees were sitting around eating, Yeshua appeared in the room and scolded them for not believing and for being so stubborn when they hadn’t believed others who had told them that he’d come back from the dead. 15 Then he instructed them, “Travel around all the world[ref] and tell the good message to everyone. 16 Anyone who believes and gets immersed in water will be saved, however, those who refuse to believe will be condemned to death. 17 Those who believe will be able to do miracles: they’ll be able to use my authority to command demons to leave and to speak new languages, 18 and they’ll be able to pick up snakes. If they drink anything poisonous, it won’t hurt them, and they will place their hands on people and make them better.”

19 When Yeshua had finished speaking, he was lifted up into heaven and seated in the honoured place[ref] next to God. 20 Then his followers went around preaching everywhere, and God worked through them and so they were able to confirm the truth of their preaching by doing miracles.