John 12:8

John 12:8 include verse {A}

The omission of meqV e`autw/n evme. de. ouv pa,ntote e;cete by î⁷⁵ and L* is clearly the result of parablepsis, the eye of the scribe passing from e;cete to e;cete. The omission of verses John 12:7 and John 12:8 from 0250 seems also to be due to a transcriptional accident, the scribe’s eye passing from eipenoun to egnwoun. It is much more difficult to account for the absence of ver. John 12:8 from D it^d syr^s. On the one hand, it can be argued that the words were added at an early date by a copyist who recalled the similar statement in Matthew 26:11 and Mark 14:7. On the other hand, the overwhelming manuscript support for the verse seemed to a majority of the Committee to justify retaining it in the text.