Mark 2:26 evpi. VAbiaqa.r avrciere,wj

According to 1 Samuel 21:1 it was Ahimelech, not Abiathar, who was high priest when David ate the bread of the Presence. In order to avoid the historical difficulty, D W al omit evpi. VAbiaqa.r avrciere,wj, thereby conforming the text to Matthew 12:4 and Luke 6:4. Other witnesses, reluctant to go so far as to delete the phrase, inserted tou/ before avrciere,wj (or i`ere,wj) in order to permit the interpretation that the event happened in the time of (but not necessarily during the high-priesthood of) Abiathar (who, was afterward) the high priest.

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