John 8:59 i`erou/ {A}

The true text almost certainly closes with i`erou/, which is attested by î66, 75 a* B D W Q* ita, b, c, d, e, ff2, l vg syrs copsa, bomss, ach2 arm geo1 al. In order to give the impression that Jesus escaped by miraculous power, copyists expanded the text by borrowing dielqw.n dia. me,sou auvtw/n from Luke 4:30, and then continuing with kai. parh/gen ou[twj in preparation for the statement in John 9:1. If any of these longer texts were original, there is no reason why the best representatives of the earliest text-types should have omitted it.

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