The final verse of Mark 16 suggests that the miracles "following" those who believed were for the specific purpose of confirming the spoken word of the Gospel: "These signs shall follow them that believe...they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following" (Mk.16:17,20). Once that spoken word was written down in completeness, as we now have it in the New Testament, there was no more need for the miraculous signs to follow those who believed.
Aya ya mwisho kwa Marko 16 inadokeza kuwa miujiza "itafuatana" na hao walioamini kwa madhumni maalum ya kuthibitisha neno la Injili lililosemwa "Ishara zitafuatana na hao waaminio …….. wakaenda na kuhubiri kila mahali, Bwana akitenda kazi pamoja nao, na kuthibitisha neno kwa ishara zilizofuatana nalo" (Marko 16:17,20). Mara neno lililotamkwa likaandikwa kwa ukamilifu, kama tulivyonalo sasa katika Agano Jipya, hapakuwa na haja ya Ishara za Miujiza kuwafuata wale walioamini. Maelezo yaliyoandikwa chini ya Ukurasa: