On the following Sunday, when the minister began to preach, he said: "Now, if you have read the seventeenth chapter of Mark as I requested, please raise your hand." Almost everybody's hand went up.
Then the minister said: "I want to tell you that there is no seventeenth chapter of Mark."
牧師宣布下個禮拜天他布道時要講說謊者的問題。他說:“為了給這次布道做好準備,我希望大家都去看看《馬可福音》的第十七章。”
到了下個禮拜天,牧師開始布道時說:“如果你們按照我的要求看過《馬可福音》的第十七章,現(xiàn)在舉手。”幾乎每個人都舉了手。
牧師就說:“我要告訴你們,《馬可福音》并沒有第17章。”