John 4:1

John 4:1 VIhsou/j {C}

As between VIhsou/j and ku,rioj the Committee preferred the former. Had ku,rioj been present in the original text, it is unlikely that a scribe would have displaced it with VIhsou/j, which occurs twice in the following clauses. On the other hand, in accord with the increasing use of ku,rioj in reference to Jesus, and in order to relieve the clumsy style, more than one copyist may have smoothed the passage by changing the first instance of VIhsou/j to ku,rioj.

It has been conjectured that originally the verb e;gnw was without an expressed subject, and that subsequently some copyists inserted VIhsou/j and others ku,rioj.