
Post · January 26, 2026John’s warning contains several small variations rather than one missing sentence. Copies shift the order of “baptize you,” some omit “and fire,” an early papyrus gives a Mark-like…
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Post · January 19, 2026The difference is a pronoun. The Textus Receptus calls the rite his baptism—John’s.
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Post · January 17, 2026The received quotation gives three sounds: lamentation, weeping, and great mourning. The critical text omits the first pair of words and begins with “weeping and great mourning.” Rachel…
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Post · January 15, 2026When Herod asks where Christ should be born, the priests answer from the prophet. The Textus Receptus and the standard critical text introduce the answer with the bare…
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Post · January 13, 2026The Textus Receptus says Mary bore her firstborn son. The critical text reads more briefly, “she bore a son.” Between those forms stand manuscripts that keep firstborn but…
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Post · January 11, 2026Matthew does not name the prophet here. The quotation comes from Isaiah 7:14, and a small line of witnesses supplies Isaiah’s name.
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