John 18:1

John 18:1 tou/ Kedrw,n

There are three principal readings:

(a) tw/n ke,drwn (“of the cedars”) a^c B C L N X Y G D Q Y ¦¹ ¦¹³ al,
(b) tou/ ke,drou (“of the cedar”) a* D W it^{a, b, r1} cop^{sa bomss, ach},
(c) tou/ Kedrw,n (“of Kidron”) A S D 123 it^{c, e, q} vg syr^{s, p, pal} goth.

Despite weakness of external evidence a majority of the Committee considered that reading (c) accounts best for the origin of the other two readings (that is, what appears to be a lack of concord between article and noun was “corrected” by copyists who took the indeclinable proper noun Kedrw,n (= !Ard>qi) to be the common word ke,droj). Indeed, the converse change, from (a) or (b) to (c), is scarcely conceivable, the tendency being to assimilate terminations.