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Mark 9:23 — “If Thou Canst Believe” or “If Thou Canst”? Who Is Being Challenged?
Jesus either challenges the father’s ability to believe or takes up the father’s own words, “If thou canst.” Both lead to the declaration that all things are possible to the believer.
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Mark 9:24 — “Lord, I Believe” and “with Tears”: The Full Cry of the Child’s Father
The received cry includes tears and addresses Jesus as Lord. The shorter critical form retains the father’s confession and plea but omits both details.
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Mark 9:29 — “Prayer and Fasting”: What Did Christ Prescribe?
The received answer requires prayer and fasting. The critical text retains prayer but omits fasting, often treating it as an ascetic addition from later church practice.
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Mark 9:42 — “These Little Ones Which Believe in Me”: Do the Final Words Belong?
The phrase “in me” is strongly supported and present in the received text, but some early witnesses omit it. The words define the little ones by faith rather than age alone.
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Mark 9:44–46 — “Their Worm Dieth Not” and “the Fire That Never Shall Be Quenched”
The received text repeats Isaiah’s warning after the hand, foot, and eye sayings. The critical text keeps it only at verse 48, omitting verses 44 and 46 as apparent duplication.
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Matthew 20:22–23 — The Cup and the Baptism: Has Christ’s Saying Been Shortened?
> “Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”
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Matthew 26:3, 28, 59–60 — Caiaphas, the New Testament, and the False Witnesses
Four details in Matthew 26 have been shortened in the critical text: the scribes at Caiaphas’s palace, the new testament in Christ’s blood, the elders among those seeking false witness, and part of Matthew’s repeated report that they found none.
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Matthew 28:9–20 — Meeting, Worshiping, and the Closing “Amen”: Variants in the Resurrection Commission
> “And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him.”
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Mark 1:1 — “Jesus Christ, the Son of God”: Does the Full Title Belong?
The opening line of Mark varies at its final title. The question is not whether Mark presents Jesus as God’s Son, but whether “the Son of God” stood in the Gospel’s first sentence.
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Mark 1:2 — “In the Prophets” or “in Isaiah the Prophet”? The Opening Citation
Mark introduces a composite citation with either “in the prophets” or “in Isaiah the prophet.” The difference forces a question about quotation formulas, not about whether Scripture contains an error.
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Mark 1:8 — Water, the Holy Ghost, and the Two Baptisms of John’s Testimony
The main texts agree on John’s contrast between water and the Holy Ghost, but differ over small particles and a preposition. Those details affect balance and emphasis, not the identity of either baptism.
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Mark 1:14 — “The Gospel of the Kingdom of God”: Has the Kingdom Been Removed?
The received text says Jesus preached “the gospel of the kingdom of God.” The critical text shortens the expression to “the gospel of God,” though the kingdom remains explicit in the next verse.
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