John 11:17 te,ssaraj h;dh h`me,raj

There are four variant readings:

(1) te,ssaraj h;dh h`me,raj î75 B C* Q ¦13 al

(2) te,ssaraj h`me,raj h;dh a Ac C3 L W X G D L P ¦1 Byz

(3) h;dh te,ssaraj h`me,raj î66 ita, l, p goth

(4) te,ssaraj h`me,raj A* D 237 ite syrs, p copsa, bo, ach arm eth geo

Among the several readings, that chosen for the text is the best supported and also accounts best for the rise of the others. Copyists were either dissatisfied with h;dh separating te,ssaraj h`me,raj and so moved it before or after the phrase, or, in a few cases, they omitted the word by an accident in transcription, either when “four” was written as a word (teccaracydyymerac) or, more likely, when it was represented as a numeral (d=ydyymerac).

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