Mark 16:18-20

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

¹⁸ and they will pick up snakes^[a] with their hands. And if they drink any deadly thing, it will by-no-means^[b] hurt^[c] them. They will lay hands on sick ones, and they will be well”.

Jesus Is Taken Up Into Heaven

¹⁹ So indeed the Lord Jesus, after He spoke to them, was taken-up into heaven and sat-down on the right side of God. ²⁰ And those ones, having gone-forth, proclaimed it everywhere, the Lord working-with them and confirming^[d] the word by the signs following-after^[e] them.

[A few Greek manuscripts have this “Short^[f] Ending” after verse 8, followed by the “long ending” above]

And they promptly reported all the things having been commanded them to the ones around Peter. And after these things, Jesus Himself also sent-forth the sacred and imperishable proclamation of eternal salvation through them, from the east and as-far-as the west. Amen.