Mark 10:1

Mark 10:1 @kai.# pe,ran {C}

The reading dia. tou/ pe,ran (A K X P most minuscules, followed by the Textus Receptus; cf. the AV rendering “into the coast of Judaea by the farther side of Jordan”) is manifestly an explanatory correction introduced by copyists who were perplexed by the geographical difficulties involved in the earlier readings. In choosing between kai. pe,ran (Alexandrian text) and pe,ran (Western and Antiochian texts), the Committee was impressed by the diversity of external support for the second reading, but considered that the absence of the kai, may be due to assimilation to the parallel in Matthew ( Matthew 19:1). In order to reflect the balance of external witnesses and internal probabilities, it was decided to retain kai, but to enclose it within square brackets.