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Powerofone	Sunday, 13. September 2009, 19:51
Posts: 765 Group: Members Member #210 Joined: October 2, 2008	From today's second reading. Isn't the contrast between Mark's and Matthew's versions of this teaching interesting? Mark stops at this point. Indeed Jesus admonishes to "tell no one about him". Matthew, on the other hand, does on to add the famous verse on which the Bishops of Rome were to later place so much emphasis. Indeed any visitor to St. Peter's Basilica can see inscribed in gold letters 2 meters high, the Latin inscription encircling the dome above the very crypt of Peter: "tu es Petrus et super hanc petram aedificabo ecclesiam meam et portae inferi non praevalebunt adversum eam". Why would Mark have neglected so important a verse? Or was verse 18 interpolated to Mattrew's gospel at a later date?


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