don't have the words surely must show, I reasoned, that he did not preserve them for us. And if he didn't perform that miracle, there seemed to be no reason to think that he performed the earlier miracle of inspiring those words. It seems that Ehrman has a mindset that is perpetuated by a blind spot, the fact that we do not have the originals. Here in the introduction, we will start with Ehrman’s obstacle of Mark 2:26, as this was the catalyst that sent him over the edge. At Mark 2:26, many translations