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The Last Twelve Verses of Mark: Their Genuineness Established
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First published August 8, 2015
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February 24, 2016
This is basically a numerical analysis of the last twelve verses of the Gospel of Mark.
While Panin highlights the astonishing number of ways 7 is encoded in these verses, I was actually more interested in the occurrences of 17. He lists these, though never making a huge feature of them. I am interested in them because they form such a significant feature of the mathematical design of the other Gospels: in fact, 17 might be seen as the number which symbolises Christianity.
First he mentions that the 175 words under consideration are divided into the words of Jesus and 'the rest of the passage'. That rest is 119 words or 7 x 17 - thus having the virtue of being a multiple of 7, Panin's primary focus of exploration. (page 9)
He points out that the numeric value of all twelve disciple's names mentioned in Mark 3:13-19 is 7 x 17 x 9 x 9. (page 50)
The numeric value of the 28 different words with which the New Testament writings begin is 17 x 9 x 13 x 10. Three of these words are found nowhere else in the New Testament and their numeric value is 269 x 17. The numeric value of the initial letters of these writings is 17 x 9 x 9; and the numeric value of all the initial letters of the different vocabulary is 17 x 113. And there's more 17s as well. (pages 57-58)
The first 8 verses and the last 12 verses have similar mathematical design. (page 43)
The 175 words of the last 12 verses have 98 different words of vocabulary starting with 19 different letters. The numeric value of these different letters is 7 x 333. (A number symbolising covenant as demonstrated in God's Panoply: The Armour of God and the Kiss of Heaven.) (page 24) There are 77 non-nouns. (page 20)
Perhaps most interesting is Panin's comment that there are only two passages of any significant length which are disputed in the New Testament. Both of these involve women, indeed sinful women in important roles. Some well-meaning and zealous 'Uzzah', Panin suggests, has helped the ark of the word of God to assume a 'more upright' stance. In his view, both the story of the woman accused of adultery and the women at the tomb were there from the start, before a zealous editor excised them.
While Panin highlights the astonishing number of ways 7 is encoded in these verses, I was actually more interested in the occurrences of 17. He lists these, though never making a huge feature of them. I am interested in them because they form such a significant feature of the mathematical design of the other Gospels: in fact, 17 might be seen as the number which symbolises Christianity.
First he mentions that the 175 words under consideration are divided into the words of Jesus and 'the rest of the passage'. That rest is 119 words or 7 x 17 - thus having the virtue of being a multiple of 7, Panin's primary focus of exploration. (page 9)
He points out that the numeric value of all twelve disciple's names mentioned in Mark 3:13-19 is 7 x 17 x 9 x 9. (page 50)
The numeric value of the 28 different words with which the New Testament writings begin is 17 x 9 x 13 x 10. Three of these words are found nowhere else in the New Testament and their numeric value is 269 x 17. The numeric value of the initial letters of these writings is 17 x 9 x 9; and the numeric value of all the initial letters of the different vocabulary is 17 x 113. And there's more 17s as well. (pages 57-58)
The first 8 verses and the last 12 verses have similar mathematical design. (page 43)
The 175 words of the last 12 verses have 98 different words of vocabulary starting with 19 different letters. The numeric value of these different letters is 7 x 333. (A number symbolising covenant as demonstrated in God's Panoply: The Armour of God and the Kiss of Heaven.) (page 24) There are 77 non-nouns. (page 20)
Perhaps most interesting is Panin's comment that there are only two passages of any significant length which are disputed in the New Testament. Both of these involve women, indeed sinful women in important roles. Some well-meaning and zealous 'Uzzah', Panin suggests, has helped the ark of the word of God to assume a 'more upright' stance. In his view, both the story of the woman accused of adultery and the women at the tomb were there from the start, before a zealous editor excised them.
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