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# Mark 16

Mark 16 is chapter 16 of 16 in the Gospel of Mark. Here are all 20 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Christ's resurrection and ascension.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Mark 16 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. And when the Sabbath had passed, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought aromatic spices, so that when they arrived they could anoint Jesus.
2. And very early in the morning, on the first of the Sabbaths, they went to the tomb, the sun having now risen.
3. And they said to one another, “Who will roll back the stone for us, away from the entrance of the tomb?”
4. And looking, they saw that the stone was rolled back. For certainly it was very large.
5. And upon entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, covered with a white robe, and they were astonished.
6. And he said to them, “Do not become frightened. You are seeking Jesus of Nazareth, the Crucified One. He has risen. He is not here. Behold, the place where they laid him.
7. But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going before you into Galilee. There you shall see him, just as he told you.”
8. But they, going out, fled from the tomb. For trembling and fear had overwhelmed them. And they said nothing to anyone. For they were afraid.
9. But he, rising early on the first Sabbath, appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.
10. She went and announced it to those who had been with him, while they were mourning and weeping.
11. And they, upon hearing that he was alive and that he had been seen by her, did not believe it.
12. But after these events, he was shown in another likeness to two of them walking, as they were going out to the countryside.
13. And they, returning, reported it to the others; neither did they believe them.
14. Finally, he appeared to the eleven, as they sat at table. And he rebuked them for their incredulity and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen that he had risen again.
15. And he said to them: “Go forth to the whole world and preach the Gospel to every creature.
16. Whoever will have believed and been baptized will be saved. Yet truly, whoever will not have believed will be condemned.
17. Now these signs will accompany those who believe. In my name, they shall cast out demons. They will speak in new languages.
18. They will take up serpents, and, if they drink anything deadly, it will not harm them. They shall lay their hands upon the sick, and they will be well.”
19. And indeed, the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and he sits at the right hand of God.
20. Then they, setting out, preached everywhere, with the Lord cooperating and confirming the word by the accompanying signs.

## Mark 16 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Et cum transisset sabbatum, Maria Magdalene, et Maria Jacobi, et Salome emerunt aromata ut venientes ungerent Jesum.
2. Et valde mane una sabbatorum, veniunt ad monumentum, orto jam sole.
3. Et dicebant ad invicem: Quis revolvet nobis lapidem ab ostio monumenti?
4. Et respicientes viderunt revolutum lapidem. Erat quippe magnus valde.
5. Et introëuntes in monumentum viderunt juvenem sedentem in dextris, coopertum stola candida, et obstupuerunt.
6. Qui dicit illis: Nolite expavescere: Jesum quæritis Nazarenum, crucifixum: surrexit, non est hic, ecce locus ubi posuerunt eum.
7. Sed ite, dicite discipulis ejus, et Petro, quia præcedit vos in Galilæam: ibi eum videbitis, sicut dixit vobis.
8. At illæ exeuntes, fugerunt de monumento: invaserat enim eas tremor et pavor: et nemini quidquam dixerunt: timebant enim.
9. Surgens autem mane prima sabbati, apparuit primo Mariæ Magdalene, de qua ejecerat septem dæmonia.
10. Illa vadens nuntiavit his, qui cum eo fuerant, lugentibus et flentibus.
11. Et illi audientes quia viveret, et visus esset ab ea, non crediderunt.
12. Post hæc autem duobus ex his ambulantibus ostensus est in alia effigie, euntibus in villam:
13. et illi euntes nuntiaverunt ceteris: nec illis crediderunt.
14. Novissime recumbentibus illis undecim apparuit: et exprobravit incredulitatem eorum et duritiam cordis: quia iis, qui viderant eum resurrexisse, non crediderunt.
15. Et dixit eis: Euntes in mundum universum prædicate Evangelium omni creaturæ.
16. Qui crediderit, et baptizatus fuerit, salvus erit: qui vero non crediderit, condemnabitur.
17. Signa autem eos qui crediderint, hæc sequentur: in nomine meo dæmonia ejicient: linguis loquentur novis:
18. serpentes tollent: et si mortiferum quid biberint, non eis nocebit: super ægros manus imponent, et bene habebunt.
19. Et Dominus quidem Jesus postquam locutus est eis, assumptus est in cælum, et sedet a dextris Dei.
20. Illi autem profecti prædicaverunt ubique, Domino cooperante, et sermonem confirmante, sequentibus signis.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 641: On the Third Day He Rose From the Dead ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2174: The Lord's Day ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2174: The Lord's Day ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 333: Heaven and Earth ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 652: On the Third Day He Rose From the Dead ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 643: On the Third Day He Rose From the Dead ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 659: "He Ascended Into Heaven and Is Seated At the Right Hand of the Father" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 645: On the Third Day He Rose From the Dead ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 643: On the Third Day He Rose From the Dead ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 75: The Apostolic Tradition ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 977: One Baptism for the Forgiveness of Sins ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 748: "I Believe in the Holy Catholic Church" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 888: Christ's Faithful - Hierarchy, Laity, Consecrated Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1223: Baptism in the Economy of Salvation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 161: The Characteristics of Faith ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 846: The Church Is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1253: Who can Receive Baptism? ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1257: The Necessity of Baptism ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 434: Jesus ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1507: Its Foundations in the Economy of Salvation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1673: Sacramentals ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 670: He Will Come Again in Glory ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 699: The Name, Titles, and Symbols of the Holy Spirit ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2: The life of man - to know and love God ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 156: The Characteristics of Faith ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 2: They set out before it was light, to go to the sepulchre; but the sun was risen when they arrived there. Or, figuratively, the sun here spoken of is the sun of justice, Christ Jesus our Lord, who was risen before their coming.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Mon, Jan 25, 2027: Conversion of St. Paul, Apostle — Gospel, Mark 16:15-18
- Sat, Mar 27, 2027: Holy Saturday — the Easter Vigil in the Holy Night of Easter — Gospel, Mark 16:1-7
- Sat, Apr 3, 2027: Saturday in the Octave of Easter — Gospel, Mark 16:9-15
- Sun, May 9, 2027: Seventh Sunday of Easter — Ascension — Gospel, Mark 16:15-20

3 more dates through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option).

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).