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Mark 6:11 — “More Tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha”: The Omitted Judgment Saying
The received mission charge ends with a comparison to Sodom and Gomorrah at judgment. The critical text omits the entire sentence, leaving the dust-shaking sign without Christ’s explicit interpretation.
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Mark 7:24 — The Borders of Tyre and Sidon: Does “Sidon” Belong?
The received destination names both Tyre and Sidon. The critical text names only Tyre, although verse 31 later describes Jesus traveling through Sidon on the return toward Galilee.
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Mark 6:3 — “Is Not This the Carpenter?” A Reading Once Thought Scandalous
The received and modern critical texts call Jesus “the carpenter.” Some witnesses change the phrase to “the carpenter’s son,” apparently aligning Mark with Matthew and avoiding a description once treated as demeaning.
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The Woman the Churches Remembered: Didascalia, Didymus, Ambrose, Jerome, and the Limits of Patristic Evidence
The early evidence for the woman taken in adultery is neither a single unbroken manuscript chain nor an empty silence. This article weighs what the Didascalia, Didymus, Ambrose, Jerome, and Augustine actually establish about the story, its Gospel reception, and its place…
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They Removed It from Their Copies: Augustine, the Woman Taken in Adultery, and the Witnesses That Cannot Be Counted
Augustine’s testimony concerning John 7:53–8:11 does not settle every question of transmission by itself. It does establish that a leading Father received the passage as Scripture, knew of copies without it, and reported a moral motive for its removal—evidence that a surviving-manuscript…
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Mark 7:19 — “Purging All Meats”: Grammar, Punctuation, and a Modern Interpretive Claim
The Greek word “cleansing” is overwhelmingly secure. The dispute concerns what it modifies and how editors punctuate the sentence: the bodily process or Jesus as narrator who thereby declared all foods clean.
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Mark 5:41 — Talitha Cumi: The Aramaic Command and Its Greek Transmission
The Aramaic command survives in several spellings, especially “cumi” and “cum.” The received feminine form suits the girl addressed, while both forms could sound alike in later pronunciation.
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Matthew 10:23 — “Flee Ye into Another”: The Text of Christ’s Persecution Instruction
At first glance this looks like a missing-verse dispute. It is not.
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Matthew 10:37–42 — Loving Family, Loving Christ, and the Cup of Cold Water: Two Related Variants
Two details in the closing charge to the Twelve are sometimes pulled into textual debates. One is a full line about loving son or daughter more than Christ.
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Matthew 11:2 — Did John Send “Two of His Disciples” or “through His Disciples”?
The Greek difference between “two” and “through” is small on the page and plain in English. The Textus Receptus says John sent two of his disciples.
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Matthew 11:19 — Wisdom Justified by Her Children or by Her Works?
Jesus ends his answer to a fault-finding generation with a proverb. The received text says wisdom is justified by her children.
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Matthew 11:23 — Shall Capernaum Be Exalted to Heaven or Has It Already Been Exalted?
Is Jesus describing Capernaum’s present height, or asking whether it expects to be raised? The received text says the city is exalted to heaven.
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