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Matthew 15:14 — “Blind Leaders of the Blind”: Has the Description Been Shortened?
The Textus Receptus gives Jesus’ saying in a full pair: the Pharisees are blind leaders of blind people. Some critical witnesses read simply, “They are blind guides,” and the usual critical text marks the…
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Ecclesiastical Reception Recognizes the Text but Does Not Create It
The church does not make the Bible. The Bible makes the church.
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Matthew 15:31 — The Maimed Made Whole: The Order and Extent of the Healing List
The mountain beside Galilee becomes a field hospital. People lay the lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others at Jesus’ feet.
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Matthew 16:13 — “Whom Do Men Say That I the Son of Man Am?”
The Textus Receptus includes the pronoun me: “Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?” The critical text usually omits it: “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” Both questions plainly concern Jesus.…
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Matthew 16:2–3 — “The Signs of the Times”: Is the Weather Saying Authentic?
The red sky saying in Matthew 16:2–3 is absent from several important early witnesses. Modern editions either bracket it, print it with a warning, or move it to a note.
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The Death of the Testator and the Blood of the Covenant
Hebrews 9 joins covenant, testament, sacrifice, death, and inheritance in Christ without severing testamentary force from Sinai’s blood.
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Matthew 17:20 — Unbelief or Little Faith? Why the Disciples Could Not Cast It Out
The disciples had tried and failed to cast out a devil. When they ask why, the received text answers unbelief.
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The Received Text Must Not Be Simplistically Equated with One Immaculate Printed Edition
Providential preservation does not require one inspired printer or one independently immaculate early edition; it requires the church’s possession of the text God inspired and preserved.
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Matthew 17:21 — “Prayer and Fasting”: Is the Entire Verse Authentic?
Many modern Bibles move this sentence to a footnote. The earliest Greek witnesses behind the critical text omit the entire verse, while the received text and the broad later tradition keep it.
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Matthew 18:11 — “The Son of Man Is Come to Save That Which Was Lost”
This sentence stands between Christ’s warning not to despise his little ones and the parable of the wandering sheep. The Textus Receptus keeps it.
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Authorized Succession Is Not Textual Corruption
The New Testament fulfills a divinely promised administration; it does not correct a defective Old Testament. Revelation may advance by the Author’s authority, while scribes may not revise it.
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Matthew 18:15, 35 — “Against Thee” and “Their Trespasses”: Two Disputed Personalizing Clauses
Two short phrases make Christ’s commands personal. In verse 15, the received text says a brother sins against thee.
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