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The 'Long Ending' (verses 16:9-30) was added much later, to provide the necessary appearances of the risen Jesus and to more or less harmonise with Matthew and Luke, but this is still a relatively short account compared to the other gospels.
We can not know exactly why the author of Mark's Gospel ended his account with the discovery of the empty tomb, but a possible reason is that a further narrative would not have fitted into the chiastic structure of his narrative. A chiastic structure is a circular sequence in which an opening set of events is contrasted with another set of events that mirrors the first. In Mark's Gospel:
- The opening set begins with John explaining the coming of Jesus, followed by the baptism and the voice of God from heaven, and ends with Jesus predicting his death.
- The contrasting structure begins with the Transfiguration of Jesus and the voice of God from heaven, and ends with the crucifixion, followed by the young man explaining the departure of Jesus.
So, the gospel ends as it began. For Mark, a longer ending would have required additional material before the present chapter 1 and could perhaps have reduced the emotional impact of the story.
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