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Matthew 18:11

Matthew 18:11 omit verse {B}

There can be little doubt that the words h=lqen ga.r o` ui`o.j tou/ avnqrw,pou $zhth,sai kai.% sw/sai to. avpolwlo,j are spurious here, being absent from the earliest witnesses representing several textual types (Alexandrian, Egyptian, Antiochian), and manifestly borrowed by copyists from Luke 19:10. The reason for the interpolation was apparently to provide a connection between ver. Matthew 18:10 and verses Matthew 18:12-14.

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