On pages 55 and 56 Brown wove into the story a passage from the Secret Gospel of Mark, a highly contentious and disputed document said to have been written by Clement of Alexandria that Professor Robert Morton claimed to have discovered in 1958.
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Nineham, D.E., Saint Mark: The Pelican New Testament Commentaries The Gospel of St. Mark, Pelican (1972)
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Smith, Morton, The Secret Gospel, Dawn Horse Press (1973), about the Secret Gospel of Mark
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