The Preaching and Sacred Writings of St. Peter the Apostle Kata St. Mark: The Biblical Scholarship series on the New Testament writings Modern Received Eclectic Text compared to the Early Papyri and Uncials VOLUME II

By Rev. Dr. Henry B. Malone

Written for Pastors and serious Bible scholars to give them more time in the Greek text. The first question for the serious Bible scholar should be "What is the text?" Only then are you ready to move on to "What does it mean?" The Sacred Preaching & Writings of St. Peter the Apostle presents the "Received Text" since its inception to present

• Language: English
• Publisher: Authors Press
• Release date: Jun 2, 2023
• ISBN: 9781643148410

Rev. Dr. Henry B. Malone

Pastor Hank or simply Pastor is my preferred identification. I was born in Whittier California. We moved to Kirkwood Missouri and then for about one year I grew up as the only white boy in my class in Gallup, New Mexico. This was when I was 11 or 12 and I had a fight every day going to and leaving school. This was more learning how to fit and live together with us kids trying to determine their way and place. I knew hard times as a kid and worked selling papers. They were 7 cents and the paper boy got to keep 2 cents. That was about $1.50 to $2.00 a night in the cold. We were poor and often the money I made would put the food on the table. My step-father was a shoe repairman and he worked at that trade until he was 92. We, my two sisters, brother and I, went to live with my grandfather and grandmother in Kirkwood, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis after about a year of living in Gallop. For high school I attend a boarding school, St. John's Academy in Winfield, Kansas. I loved sports and our family of about 20 kids in my class. This was a coed academy. My final year I was the Academy Student Body President. I lettered in baseball three years and basketball one or two. Later I went to Columbia Missouri and met my wife Dianne. We got married in 1966 and had twin daughters right away. We had two more daughters. We have today four grandsons and one granddaughter. My wife is my rock and happy half. We have been married for about 56 years. Kids mean a lot to me and my chapel times with the preschoolers still are the best moments in ministry. I got my PhD in family counseling while in Palms, Michigan. There was nobody doing counseling and there was a lot of need. I learned as I went and came to realize that psychology is really only a way for people to coop with the problems of the day. It really doesn't fix much. The pastor's tools of confession and absolution often fixed the real problem, the need for forgiveness. I enjoyed teaching at the Lutheran Heritage and South Sudanese Lutheran Church Seminary in Yambio for two weeks. I also enjoyed a really cold beer the last day there. I taught the Gospel of John. That was only about three years ago. I normally try to watch a film each night during the pandemic to breakup the day. I am also work on the next book, "The Sacred Writings of St. Matthew vol. 1" My goal is to continue this project comparing the Greek text until all of the New Testament writings are complete. I love preaching and being a pastor and counselor in ministry. Doing the studies in Greek keeps me in God's Word.

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Copyright © 2023 by Rev. Dr. Henry B. Malone

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Acknowledgements

My Lord and Savior

Jesus Christ has seen fit to give me the time, resources, interest, and knowledge to do this work. I give thanks for His wonderful grace and word—to Him be the glory forever! Amen.

Without the patience and assistance of my wife Dianne and family including my grandsons this book would never have happened.

Certainly the Professors from Concordia Seminary St. Louis, Wayne Schmidt, James Voelz, and Louis Brighton deserve a special thanks for their training and encouragement.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Authors Preface

Introduction Mark

The Gospel of Jesus Christ, Son of God kata St. Mark

Satan Disguised as Knowledge Attacks the Truthfulness of Scripture.

Authorship

The Testimony of the Early Church Fathers

Location and Dating of the Writing

Manuscripts:

Codices, Papyri and Uncials used in this Manuscript:

Notes of the Text Compiler / Editor / Translator on the use and purpose of this writing:

Notes on Text production and reading / Key to how to use text format:

General Overview of the Gospel of Jesus as preached by St. Peter kata St. Mark

The Multiple Endings of the Gospel of Jesus kata St. Mark

Text of the Gospel of Jesus as Preached by St. Peter kata Mark

Chapter 1 ( P 137 )

Chapter 2 (P 88 & U 0315 )

Chapter 3 (U 0315 )

Chapter 4 (P 45 & U 0313)

Chapter 5 ( P 45 )

Chapter 6 (P 45 & 7Q5)

Chapter 7 (P 45 )

Chapter 8 (P 45 & U 0214 )

Chapter 9 (P 45 )

Chapter 10

(U 069 )

Chapter 11 (U 069 & U 0188)

Chapter

12 ( P 45 )

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15 (U 059 / 0215 )

Chapter 16

Introduction to the Epistle 1st Peter

Text of the 1st Epistle of St. Peter

1Pt.1:1 (P72 & P 125 )

1Pt.4:1 ( P 72 )

1Pt.2:1 (P 72, P 82 & P 125 )

1Pt.5:1 ( P 72 & U 0206 )

1Pt.3:1 (P 72 & P 81)

Introduction to the Epistle 2nd Peter

Text of the 2nd Epistle of St. Peter

2Pt.1: 1 ( P 72)

2Pt.2:1 ( P 72)

2Pt.3:1 ( P 72)

Appendix A

Abbreviations and Greek Letters as Numbers

a. nomen sacrum and other abbreviations

b. parsing abbreviations

c. Greek letters used as numbers

Appendix B

Codices and Early New Testament Papyri & Uncials for Gospel of Jesus kata Mark

Codices and Early New Testament Papyri & Uncials for the Epistles of St. Peter

Uncials of the 4th & 5th Centuries

Codex Alexandrinus (A)

Codex Sinaiticus (א)

Codex Vaticanus. (B)

Codex Regius (L)

Appendix C

Bibliography

Foreword

The Sacred Preaching & Writings of St. Peter the Apostle kata Mark

Scholar’s Edition

The Scholar’s Editions are

written for clergy and lay people interested in discovering and comparing the original text with today’s modern translations. With the evidence of early manuscripts, you are able to determine the reliability of the modern Greek Eclectic Received Text used for most modern translations.

This work is written for those who know Biblical Greek, those who are learning the Biblical Greek, as well as those who are willing to work with the basics to further their knowledge in the Scriptures. It is written so that the readers additional investigations and insight of the New Testament Scripture can be added to their text. It is hoped that the reader will develop his personal commentary and notes in the text provided.

This is written to inform the serious Bible student, who should compare the ancient text to today’s array of Bibles and interpretations of the text; and understand why and where they differ and yet are the same witness with good textual reliability or are a poor translation with lots of bias. It is also written as a resource to drive the reader into considering the errors in modern liberal scholarship.

It is written to give pastors help with their Greek, so that more time can be spent on what the text says in the Greek to enrich your message to your people, while proclaiming, Thus says the Lord,… I pray you will stay faithful to the meaning and words of the text.

This text begins with The Gospel of Jesus Christ as preached by St. Peter kata (according to) St. Mark. Following this Gospel St. Peter wrote the two Epistles, 1st and 2nd Peter. Which of these was written first is undeterminable. That St. Peter wrote both letters appears definite to this author. Discussions of this will be given as information before the presentation of the text itself.

In the days of the Renaissance, the French scholar Erazmus from six or seven minuscules (in the possession of Forben at Basel in the early 17th century) prepared the first printing of the Greek New Testament. Before this date, all Greek New Testaments were hand written copies of copies of manuscripts. This work by Erazmus, therefore, is the first eclectic printed text. Only miniscule number one, used occasionally by Erazmus is considered to have genuine value. Doctor Reuben Swanson suggests that perhaps miniscule two deserves more credit than it has received. In haste to be the first to publish a printed text, it became necessary for Erazmus to translate the last few chapters of the