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John 7:53–8:11 III — Lectionary Practice and the Church’s Public Reading of the Passage
The Pentecost lesson bypassed the pericope while other services preserved it, creating skip marks and alternate placements that require liturgical interpretation.
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John 8:44 — “He Abode Not in the Truth”: Perfect or Imperfect, Stood or Abode?
The Authorized Version’s “abode not” translates a perfect form meaning that the devil has not stood in the truth; the principal Greek texts do not divide over a perfect versus imperfect tense.
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John 10:26, 29 — “Not of My Sheep” and the Father Greater than All
Two variations shape the paragraph: the received reminder “as I said unto you” and a difficult relative-pronoun cluster concerning the Father, the gift, and what is greater than all.
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John 11:25 — “I Am the Resurrection, and the Life”: Does the Full Title Belong?
The full declaration “I am the resurrection and the life” stands in both the received text and the principal modern critical editions.
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John 14:2 — “If It Were Not So, I Would Have Told You”: Statement or Question?
Ancient punctuation does not decide whether Jesus reassures the disciples or asks a question; the critical addition of “that” also changes how “I go to prepare a place” attaches.
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John 19:14 — The Sixth Hour or the Third Hour? The Chronology of the Crucifixion
The received text and principal critical editions read “about the sixth hour” at Pilate’s judgment seat; “the third hour” is a minority harmonizing reading.
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John 1:28 — Bethabara or Bethany beyond Jordan? Locating John’s Baptism
The place of John’s baptism is Bethabara in the received text and Bethany in most critical editions, an ancient geographical dispute already discussed by Origen.
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John 5:2 — Bethesda, Bethzatha, or Bethsaida? The Name of the Pool
The pool’s name circulated in several spellings; Scrivener and the SBLGNT read Bethesda, while NA28 adopts Bethzatha.
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Luke 8:43 — “Had Spent All Her Living upon Physicians”: Is the Clause Authentic?
The clause about spending her whole livelihood on physicians is omitted by some influential early witnesses and by certain critical editions, but retained by the received text and by other modern Greek editions.
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Luke 9:55–56 — “The Son of Man Is Not Come to Destroy Men’s Lives, but to Save Them”
The received text records Christ’s full rebuke and mission statement. The critical text says only that he turned and rebuked them, then they went to another village.
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Luke 10:1, 17 — Seventy or Seventy-Two? Counting the Lord’s Other Disciples
The received text appoints seventy and later records the return of seventy. The critical text commonly prints seventy-two in both places; both numbers have early, geographically broad support.
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Luke 22:43–44 I — The Manuscript Evidence for the Angel and the Bloody Sweat
The received text includes the strengthening angel, Christ’s agony, and sweat like drops of blood. The passage is absent from several major early witnesses, present in many others including an early fragment, marked in some copies, and transposed in a small stream.
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