Mark 16:15-18
New English Translation
15 He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 The one who believes and is baptized will be saved, but the one who does not believe will be condemned. 17 These signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new languages;[a] 18 they will pick up snakes with their hands, and whatever poison they drink will not harm them;[b] they will place their hands on the sick and they will be well.”
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- Mark 16:17 tn Grk “tongues,” though the word is used figuratively (perhaps as a metonymy of cause for effect). To “speak in tongues” meant to “speak in a foreign language,” though one that was new to the one speaking it and therefore due to supernatural causes. For a discussion concerning whether such was a human language, heavenly language, or merely ecstatic utterance, see BDAG 201-2 s.v. γλῶσσα 2, 3; BDAG 399 s.v. ἕτερος 2; L&N 33.2-4; ExSyn 698; C. M. Robeck Jr., “Tongues,” DPL, 939-43.
- Mark 16:18 tn For further comment on the nature of this statement, whether it is a promise or prediction, see ExSyn 403-6.
Mark 16:15-18
Lexham English Bible
15 And he said to them, “Go[a] into all the world and[b] preach the gospel to all creation. 16 The one who believes and is baptized will be saved, but the one who refuses to believe will be condemned. 17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will expel demons, they will speak in new tongues, 18 they will pick up[c] snakes.[d] And if they drink any deadly poison it will never hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick and they will get[e] well.”
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- Mark 16:15 As a participle of attendant circumstance this participle carries imperatival force picked up from the main verb (“preach”)
- Mark 16:15 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“go”) has been translated as a finite verb
- Mark 16:18 Some manuscripts have “and they will pick up”
- Mark 16:18 Some manuscripts add “with their hands”
- Mark 16:18 Literally “they will have”
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