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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 1505152" data-attributes="member: 2189"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Sinaiticus" target="_blank">Codex Sinaiticus</a>Here is an interesting exercise and a teaching moment as it relates to your bible using the very Codex mentioned above as it is now online in complete form.&nbsp; Go and open your bible and read Gospel of Mark Chapter 16 and the Gospel of John Chapter 8 and make note of the story told, the details and even the number of verses.Now go to Codex Sinaiticus and look up <a href="http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/manuscript.aspx?book=34&amp;chapter=16&amp;lid=en&amp;side=r&amp;zoomSlider=0" target="_blank">Mark Chapter 16</a>&nbsp; Notice anything odd in the verse drop down list in the upper left?&nbsp; Notice something missing?&nbsp; Now compare to your modern bible and think of how the original text changes the story. Now go and do the same with <a href="http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/manuscript.aspx?book=36&amp;chapter=8&amp;lid=en&amp;side=r&amp;zoomSlider=0" target="_blank">John Chapter 8</a>.&nbsp; Again, anything missing? How does it change things to know that one of the most beautiful and hopeful stories in the NT is not even there in one of the most prized and authoritative manuscripts for the bible itself? And no it&#039;s not in Vaticanus either. And neither is Mark 16: 9-20.Now the question is, where, when and more importantly how did those other verses finally come to get in our modern bibles?&nbsp; And are there more chapters and verses like these 2 just laying in wait to be discovered?This is your mission if you are brave and open minded enough to accept it!&nbsp; <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)" data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 1505152, member: 2189"] [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Sinaiticus'][COLOR=#ff0000][B]Codex Sinaiticus[/B][/COLOR][/URL] Here is an interesting exercise and a teaching moment as it relates to your bible using the very Codex mentioned above as it is now online in complete form. Go and open your bible and read Gospel of Mark Chapter 16 and the Gospel of John Chapter 8 and make note of the story told, the details and even the number of verses. Now go to Codex Sinaiticus and look up [URL='http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/manuscript.aspx?book=34&chapter=16&lid=en&side=r&zoomSlider=0'][COLOR=#ff0000][B]Mark Chapter 16[/B][/COLOR][/URL][B] [/B]Notice anything odd in the verse drop down list in the upper left? Notice something missing? Now compare to your modern bible and think of how the original text changes the story. [COLOR=#000000]Now go and do the same with [URL='http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/manuscript.aspx?book=36&chapter=8&lid=en&side=r&zoomSlider=0'][COLOR=#ff0000][B]John Chapter 8[/B][/COLOR][/URL][/COLOR]. Again, anything missing? How does it change things to know that one of the most beautiful and hopeful stories in the NT is not even there in one of the most prized and authoritative manuscripts for the bible itself? [COLOR=#000000]And no it's not in Vaticanus either.[/COLOR] And neither is Mark 16: 9-20. Now the question is, where, when and more importantly how did those other verses finally come to get in our modern bibles? And are there more chapters and verses like these 2 just laying in wait to be discovered? This is your mission if you are brave and open minded enough to accept it! ;) [/QUOTE]

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