John 5:36

John 5:36 mei,zw

Instead of mei,zw (accusative case), read by the majority of witnesses (a H K L S U V G D Q P and most minuscules; D reads the alternative accusative form mei,zona), the variant reading mei,zwn (properly the nominative case) is found in î⁶⁶ A B E G M N W L Y ¦¹³ 33 397 472 579 713 1071 2430 al. The latter reading, however, gives an antithesis (“I who am greater than John have the testimony”) that is out of accord with the context. (It is possible, however that mei,zwn is a solecistic form of the accusative [see Moulton, Prolegomena, p. 49]; the meaning would be the same as that given by mei,zw.)