You're actually using the disputed "long ending" of Mark to prove a point? Seriously?
Even if you are you have misread it. Here is what it says... "The one who believes and is baptized will be saved, but the one who does not believe will be condemned. These signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new languages; they will pick up snakes with their hands, and whatever poison they drink will not harm them; they will place their hands on the sick and they will be well.” This is definitely not limited to the apostles; it applies to all believers! So you are contradicting your own premise.
If you really think that a man is doing supernatural healing, not God, you are in serious trouble. No person can perform supernatural healing, s/he must be an instrument of God.
1) Try letting go of your unbelief and 2) don't use the long ending of Mark among serious believers or you will be laughed at.
Then use Matthew 28:16-17............
"Then the
eleven disciples went away into Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had appointed for them. When
they saw Him,
they worshiped Him; but some doubted.
And Jesus came and spoke to
them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. "
The point I was making is that Jesus spoke to the ELEVEN and gave THEM "sign gifts".
The reason I used Mark was that it is the only option available to you as a Pentecostal to try and validate tongues, and miracles and so on.
But of course if you believe that then you will also have to raise the dead and drink poison and kiss rattlesnakes. Is that why you reject Mark 16:9 and following as they are a package gift?
And YOU are incorrect my friend.
THEM tat believe is in fact the
ELEVEN who He is talking to.
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible
And these signs - These miracles. These evidences that they are sent from God.
"T
hem that believe - The apostles".
Coffman's Commentaries on the Bible
"These signs shall accompany ... "
The word "accompany" here is significant, meaning to "go along with one on a journey," the journey in view here being the travels of the apostles in the carrying out of the great commission just spoken. There was nothing in the use of this word to be construed as an endowment of permanent settlers not going anywhere, and provided merely for their benefit and comfort.
"Them that believe ...
"The antecedent of
"them" is "the eleven themselves" (Mark 16:14); and the only way this can be avoided is to change the singular pronouns in Mark 16:15-16 into plural pronouns contrary to the Greek text. T
here is nothing difficult in this interpretation, since it is simply basic English.******
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible
And these signs shall follow them that believe,....
Not all of them, but some; and not always, only for a time; and which were necessary for the confirmation of the Gospel, and the establishment of Christianity in the world.
People's New Testament
These signs shall follow them that believe. It is generally held that this is a promise limited to the apostolic age and to a few of the disciples of that age.
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible
Mark 16:17.
These signs shall follow, &c.— It is very evident, that the word
believe, in this place, must signify something different from that
faith which in the preceding verse is required as indispensably necessary to salvation, namely, that
faith of miracles whereof we spoke on Matthew 17:20. Besides his promise of his perpetual presence and succours, Matthew 28:20 our Lord
here assures his disciples, that through the faith of him they should work most astonishing miracles, which he here particularizes; a circumstance, which not only contributed greatly, but was highly necessary, to the propagation of the gospel, while at the same time the performance of it is an irrefragable proof of the truth of Christianity. That the
signs here specified were rendered illustrious in the days of the apostles, appears sufficiently from the book of the Acts, and the several epistles.
You are of course free to ignore all of those Bible scholars and beilve as you wish.
And please do not worry about me being laughed at. Deep down I think you just said that to be "cute" but non the less, please know that I have been laughed at by experts so you doing it is no problem for me.