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Please note the author of this study can provide absolutely no provenance for this fragment. We have no idea where it came from, when it was found or who found it. This indicate strongly that it is a fake or forgery. As do its physical characteristics. Can you say “Secret Gospel of Mark”? I thought you could.

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The circumstances just sound a little too convenient. Fakes, very good fakes, are all too common, and very good fakes have been authenticated too.

But even if it proves to be from the fourth cen. there was a lot of garbage and fake gospels in existence then too.