Matthew 14:24

Matthew 14:24 stadi,ouj pollou.j avpo. th/j gh/j avpei/cen {C}

The question is whether Matthew was here assimilated by copyists to John (stadi,ouj ei;kosi pe,nte h' tria,konta, John 6:19) or to Mark (h=n to. ploi/on evn me,sw| th/j qala,sshj, Mark 6:47). Since the process of harmonization more often took place among the Synoptic Gospels than between the Fourth Gospel and one of the Synoptics, and since the Johannine parallel is very slight (involving among Greek witnesses only the word stadi,ouj), ²² it appears that the reading of B ¦¹³ al best accounts for the rise of the others.

²² The Bohairic version has been partially conformed to the Johannine account; it reads “the ship was at a distance from the land about twenty-five stadia.”