Luke 4:4

Luke 4:4 a;nqrwpoj {B}

The shortest reading, which has good and early support, must be original; the longer forms of text have been assimilated by copyists to the Matthean parallel ( Matthew 4:4) or to the Septuagint of Deuteronomy 8:3, either verbatim or according to the general sense. If any of the longer forms of text had been original, its omission from a B L W 1241 syr^s cop^{sa, bo} would be unaccountable.