Luke 4:44

Luke 4:44 eivj ta.j sunagwga.j th/j VIoudai,aj {B}

In view of Luke’s earlier reference (in ver. Luke 4:14) to the beginning of Jesus’ Galilean ministry, the reading th/j VIoudai,aj (î⁷⁵ a B C L ¦¹ 892 Lect syr^{s, h} al) is obviously the more difficult, and copyists have corrected it to th/j Galilai,aj in accord with the parallels in Matthew 4:23 and Mark 1:39. Another attempt to avoid the difficulty was the substitution of tw/n VIoudai,wn (W ù¹⁸). As for the variation in prepositions, the use here of eivj is pregnant (“Jesus went into and preached in”) and is to be preferred to the more commonplace evn.