LUKE 5:17 oi] h=san evlhluqo,tej {B} The difficulty of the reading supported by the overwhelming mass of witnesses (according to which the enemies of Jesus had come from every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem) prompted some copyists to omit oi[ altogether (a* 33) and others to replace it w... [ Continue Reading ]
LUKE 5:33 oi` (2) {B} Copyists who remembered the parallel account in Mark 2:18 transformed the statement into a question.... [ Continue Reading ]
LUKE 5:38 blhte,on {B} The gerundive (the only verbal adjective in &te,oj that occurs in the New Testament) was replaced in a few witnesses by ba,llousin of the Matthean parallel ( Matthew 9:17), from which also was derived the widespread interpolation kai. avmfo,teroi sunthrou/ntai (or throu/ntai... [ Continue Reading ]
LUKE 5:39 _include verse_ {A} The external attestation for the inclusion of the verse is almost overwhelming; its omission from several Western witnesses may be due to the influence of Marcion, who rejected the statement because it seemed to give authority to the Old Testament.... [ Continue Reading ]