Mark 7:31 h=lqen dia. Sidw/noj {A}

According to the reading supported by the best representatives of the Alexandrian and the Western texts, as well as by other noteworthy witnesses, Jesus took a circuitous route, passing north from Tyre through Sidon and thence southeast across the Leontes, continuing south past Caesarea Philippi to the east of the Jordan and thus approached the lake of Galilee on its east side, within the territory of the Decapolis.

The reading kai. Sidw/noj h=lqen is a modification that copyists introduced either accidentally (being influenced by the familiar expression “Tyre and Sidon”) or deliberately (because Jesus’ itinerary appeared to be extraordinarily roundabout).

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