John 2:3

John 2:3 u`sterh,santoj oi;nou

Several witnesses (a* it^{a, b, ff2, j, r} syr^hmg eth) paraphrase by reading oi=non ouvk ei=con( o[ti sunetele,sqh o` oi=noj tou/ ga,mou\ ei=ta (“They had no wine, because the wine of the wedding feast had been used up; then …”). Two Old Latin witnesses (it^{e, l}) describe the situation as follows: et factum est per multam turbam vocitorum vinum consummari (“It happened that, because of the great crowd of those who had been invited, the wine was finished”). The shorter reading, adopted for the text, is attested by î^{66, 75} a^a and all known uncial and minuscule manuscripts, as well as all versional witnesses not cited above.