Matthew 17:26

Matthew 17:26 eivpo,ntoj de, {B}

The reading eivpo,ntoj de,, lacking a substantive, was deemed to be the reading that best explains the origin of the other readings.

After :Ara … ui`oi,, which may be taken as a question, a noteworthy expansion appears in minuscule manuscript 713, dating from the twelfth century: e;fh Si,mwn( Nai,) le,gei o` VIhsou/j( Do.j ou=n kai. su,( w`j avllo,trioj auvtw/n (“Simon said ‘Yes.’ Jesus says, ‘Then you also give, as being an alien to them’”). The same expansion occurs also in the Arabic form of the Diatessaron (25:6). The nucleus of this occurs in Ephraem’s Commentary on Tatian’s Diatessaron, where the Syriac text (14:17) reads, “Give to them therefore as an alien,” and the Armenian reads, “Go; you also give as one of the aliens.”