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Mark 16

8 positions in the corpus lean on this chapter. Cited verses are marked.

1When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so they could go and anoint the body of Jesus.

2Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they went to the tomb.

3They were asking one another, “Who will roll away the stone from the entrance of the tomb?”

4But when they looked up, they saw that the stone had been rolled away, even though it was extremely large.

5When they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed.

6But he said to them, “Do not be alarmed. You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here! See the place where they put Him.

7But go, tell His disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see Him, just as He told you.’”

8So the women left the tomb and ran away, trembling and bewildered. And in their fear they did not say a word to anyone.

9Early on the first day of the week, after Jesus had risen, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had driven out seven demons.

10She went and told those who had been with Him, who were mourning and weeping.

11And when they heard that Jesus was alive and she had seen Him, they did not believe it.

12After this, Jesus appeared in a different form to two of them as they walked along in the country.

13And they went back and reported it to the rest, but they did not believe them either.

14Later, as they were eating, Jesus appeared to the Eleven and rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen.

15And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.

16Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

17And these signs will accompany those who believe: In My name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues;

18they will pick up snakes with their hands, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not harm them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will be made well.”

19After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.

20And they went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked through them, confirming His word by the signs that accompanied it.

Who leans on it

Second London Baptist Confession on baptismPRIMARY SOURCEAFFIRMS°Chapter 29 is the confession's headline departure from Westminster and it is made in four short paragraphs. Only those who actually profess repentance, faith and obedience are proper subjects (29.2); immersion is necessa…Luther on baptismPRIMARY SOURCEAFFIRMS°Infants are baptized, and baptism genuinely does something: it is 'a laver of regeneration,' it works forgiveness, and its power, work, profit and end 'is this, namely, to save.' Luther refuses to make the child's faith …Luther on continuation of spiritual giftsPRIMARY SOURCEAFFIRMS°Preaching on Mark 16:17-18, Luther takes up the view that the signs belonged to the apostolic era and have since stopped, names it, and rejects it: the power remains in the church. What has changed is the need. The signs…John Owen on the final state of the lostPRIMARY SOURCEAFFIRMS°Eternal conscious punishment, stated flatly and without softening. The curse of God on the fallen includes "eternal damnation hereafter" of body and soul in hell, and when the catechism asks directly what becomes of thos…Charles Haddon Spurgeon on baptismPRIMARY SOURCEAFFIRMS°Believers only, and the sermon's whole burden is the negative case: baptism confers nothing on an unbeliever and cannot regenerate anyone. Order matters — baptism follows belief, and a man 'holds that he has no right to …Charles Haddon Spurgeon on indwelling of the holy spiritPRIMARY SOURCEAFFIRMS°Reformed Baptist. Faith itself is named as the Spirit's own work, which places the Spirit's operation before the act of believing rather than after it — the monergistic order, stated directly rather than inferred. The wi…Zwingli on natural / general revelationDISPUTED READINGNO FITNo listed stance fits. Zwingli expects to meet Hercules, Socrates, Seneca, the Catos and the Scipios in heaven, and he admires Seneca's letter to Lucilius as an expression of real faith. But he does not get there by natu…Zwingli on the final state of the lostSTANDARD ACCOUNTAFFIRMS°Eternal conscious punishment, held as the assumed background rather than defended. Zwingli states the alternative bluntly in Article 15 — believe the gospel and be saved, disbelieve and be damned — and speaks in the Fide…