John 5:4

John 5:4 omit verse {A}

Ver. John 5:4 is a gloss, whose secondary character is clear from (1) its absence from the earliest and best witnesses (î^{66, 75} a B C* D W^supp 33 it^{d, l, q} the true text of the Latin Vulgate syr^c cop^{sa, bomss, ach2} geo Nonnus), (2) the presence of asterisks or obeli to mark the words as spurious in more than twenty Greek witnesses (including S L P 047 1079 2174), (3) the presence of non-Johannine words or expressions (kata. kairo,n, evmbai,nw [of going into the water], evkde,comai, kate,comai, ki,nhsij, tarach,, dh,pote, and no,shma — the last four words only here in the New Testament), and (4) the rather wide diversity of variant forms in which the verse was transmitted.