Concerning the ending of Mark's Gospel

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Various scholars refer to Vaticanus and Sinaiticus as the oldest Bible manuscripts, suggesting a primacy associated with their age. However, the oldest text extant may not be the most accurate. There are over 600 manuscripts of Mark that have the last 12 verses if Chapter 16 including some that are older, and only 2 ( Vaticanus and Sinaiticus) are missing them. Yet these two are given primacy because of their being the oldest whole Bibles.

Otto