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Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending. Core 0.6.6 audited the distinction between visible printing, local wording, and canonical status against the complete 527-card corpus and the official NA28 Mark 16 display.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-27", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-27T22:25:19+00:00" }, { "record_id": "DOS-0002", "post_type": "cb_dossier", "record_type": "Dossier", "title": "God Manifest in the Flesh: 1 Timothy 3:16", "slug": "god-manifest-in-the-flesh-1-timothy-3-16", "excerpt": "A complete dossier on θεός, ὃς, and ὅ, including Metzger’s committee report, Newton’s anti-Trinitarian use, and the received-text case.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/dossiers/god-manifest-in-the-flesh-1-timothy-3-16/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Metzger’s printed-page entry was visually verified at page 641; the Newton Project catalogue and controlled transcription were checked directly; current-edition status was checked against the German Bible Society’s explanation of UBS6 and NA29. Individual manuscript and patristic witnesses have not been freshly recollated for this repair.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T03:02:15+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-0002", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "1 Timothy 3:16: God Manifest in the Flesh", "slug": "1-timothy-3-16-god-manifest-in-the-flesh", "excerpt": "The received reading explicitly identifies the incarnate Christ as God; the critical pronoun removes that direct testimony and has documented anti-Trinitarian use.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/1-timothy-3-16-god-manifest-in-the-flesh/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Metzger’s printed-page entry was visually verified at page 641; the Newton Project catalogue and controlled transcription were checked directly; current-edition status was checked against the German Bible Society’s explanation of UBS6 and NA29. Individual manuscript and patristic witnesses have not been freshly recollated for this repair. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T03:02:15+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2029", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 8:35 — “For My Sake and the Gospel’s”: Is the Gospel Clause Authentic?", "slug": "mark-8-35-for-my-sake-and-the-gospels-is-the-gospel-clause-authentic", "excerpt": "The received and principal critical texts include both loyalties: Christ and the gospel. A limited variant omits the gospel clause, often under influence from the shorter Synoptic parallels.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-8-35-for-my-sake-and-the-gospels-is-the-gospel-clause-authentic/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "All 169 edition-change rows were reconciled to the controlled workbook and grouped into 154 canonical verse cards. TR and Authorized Version full-verse texts were attached from the project’s Scrivener/KJV sources. Row-level TR alignment is machine-assisted and manually overridden where the unit was known to require address-level judgment; printed NA29-apparatus review and independent witness collation remain open. Metzger notes are exact-verse matches to his earlier UBS4 commentary and are not represented as explanations of later ECM decisions.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T02:09:43+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2020", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 6:22 — Herodias’s Daughter or Herod’s Daughter Herodias?", "slug": "mark-6-22-herodiass-daughter-or-herods-daughter-herodias", "excerpt": "The received reading identifies the dancer as Herodias’s own daughter. A difficult critical form can be read as Herod’s daughter named Herodias, conflicting with the narrative’s next identification.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-6-22-herodiass-daughter-or-herods-daughter-herodias/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "All 169 edition-change rows were reconciled to the controlled workbook and grouped into 154 canonical verse cards. TR and Authorized Version full-verse texts were attached from the project’s Scrivener/KJV sources. Row-level TR alignment is machine-assisted and manually overridden where the unit was known to require address-level judgment; printed NA29-apparatus review and independent witness collation remain open. Metzger notes are exact-verse matches to his earlier UBS4 commentary and are not represented as explanations of later ECM decisions.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T02:09:40+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2012", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 3:32 — “Thy Brethren and Thy Sisters”: Does the Reference to the Sisters Belong?", "slug": "mark-3-32-thy-brethren-and-thy-sisters-does-the-reference-to-the-sisters-belong", "excerpt": "Some witnesses tell Jesus that his mother, brothers, and sisters are outside. The received text mentions only his mother and brothers, agreeing with the family’s arrival and Jesus’ reply.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-3-32-thy-brethren-and-thy-sisters-does-the-reference-to-the-sisters-belong/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "All 169 edition-change rows were reconciled to the controlled workbook and grouped into 154 canonical verse cards. TR and Authorized Version full-verse texts were attached from the project’s Scrivener/KJV sources. Row-level TR alignment is machine-assisted and manually overridden where the unit was known to require address-level judgment; printed NA29-apparatus review and independent witness collation remain open. Metzger notes are exact-verse matches to his earlier UBS4 commentary and are not represented as explanations of later ECM decisions.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T02:09:39+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2010", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 3:14 — “Whom He Also Named Apostles”: Addition or Omission?", "slug": "mark-3-14-whom-he-also-named-apostles-addition-or-omission", "excerpt": "The Textus Receptus moves from the appointment of the Twelve directly to their purpose. Many witnesses insert “whom he also named apostles,” the exact naming clause found in Luke 6:13.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-3-14-whom-he-also-named-apostles-addition-or-omission/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "All 169 edition-change rows were reconciled to the controlled workbook and grouped into 154 canonical verse cards. TR and Authorized Version full-verse texts were attached from the project’s Scrivener/KJV sources. Row-level TR alignment is machine-assisted and manually overridden where the unit was known to require address-level judgment; printed NA29-apparatus review and independent witness collation remain open. Metzger notes are exact-verse matches to his earlier UBS4 commentary and are not represented as explanations of later ECM decisions.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T02:09:38+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2002", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 1:2 — “In the Prophets” or “in Isaiah the Prophet”? 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Metzger notes are exact-verse matches to his earlier UBS4 commentary and are not represented as explanations of later ECM decisions. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T02:09:37+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2001", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 1:1 — “Jesus Christ, the Son of God”: Does the Full Title Belong?", "slug": "mark-1-1-jesus-christ-the-son-of-god-does-the-full-title-belong", "excerpt": "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.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-1-1-jesus-christ-the-son-of-god-does-the-full-title-belong/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "All 169 edition-change rows were reconciled to the controlled workbook and grouped into 154 canonical verse cards. TR and Authorized Version full-verse texts were attached from the project’s Scrivener/KJV sources. Row-level TR alignment is machine-assisted and manually overridden where the unit was known to require address-level judgment; printed NA29-apparatus review and independent witness collation remain open. Metzger notes are exact-verse matches to his earlier UBS4 commentary and are not represented as explanations of later ECM decisions. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T02:09:36+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2281", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 20:21 — “Faith toward Our Lord Jesus Christ”: Does “Christ” Belong?", "slug": "acts-20-21-faith-toward-our-lord-jesus-christ-does-christ-belong", "excerpt": "Scrivener includes Χριστόν along with two articles that make the repentance-and-faith balance more explicit.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-20-21-faith-toward-our-lord-jesus-christ-does-christ-belong/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "All 169 edition-change rows were reconciled to the controlled workbook and grouped into 154 canonical verse cards. TR and Authorized Version full-verse texts were attached from the project’s Scrivener/KJV sources. Row-level TR alignment is machine-assisted and manually overridden where the unit was known to require address-level judgment; printed NA29-apparatus review and independent witness collation remain open. Metzger notes are exact-verse matches to his earlier UBS4 commentary and are not represented as explanations of later ECM decisions. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T02:09:34+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2267", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 16:17 — “Which Show unto Us the Way of Salvation”: Us or You, the Way or a Way?", "slug": "acts-16-17-which-show-unto-us-the-way-of-salvation-us-or-you-the-way-or-a-way", "excerpt": "The central pronoun is ἡμῖν, ‘to us,’ in Scrivener and ὑμῖν, ‘to you,’ in SBLGNT and NA28.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-16-17-which-show-unto-us-the-way-of-salvation-us-or-you-the-way-or-a-way/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "All 169 edition-change rows were reconciled to the controlled workbook and grouped into 154 canonical verse cards. TR and Authorized Version full-verse texts were attached from the project’s Scrivener/KJV sources. Row-level TR alignment is machine-assisted and manually overridden where the unit was known to require address-level judgment; printed NA29-apparatus review and independent witness collation remain open. Metzger notes are exact-verse matches to his earlier UBS4 commentary and are not represented as explanations of later ECM decisions.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T02:09:31+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2266", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 16:12 — Chief City, First District, or Roman Colony? 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Metzger notes are exact-verse matches to his earlier UBS4 commentary and are not represented as explanations of later ECM decisions.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T02:09:30+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2254", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 13:33 — “Unto Us Their Children”: The Resurrection and the Second Psalm", "slug": "acts-13-33-unto-us-their-children-the-resurrection-and-the-second-psalm", "excerpt": "NA28 agrees with Scrivener’s αὐτῶν ἡμῖν, ‘to us their children,’ while SBLGNT follows ἡμῶν, producing ‘to us, their children’ or ‘to our children’ depending construction.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-13-33-unto-us-their-children-the-resurrection-and-the-second-psalm/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "All 169 edition-change rows were reconciled to the controlled workbook and grouped into 154 canonical verse cards. TR and Authorized Version full-verse texts were attached from the project’s Scrivener/KJV sources. Row-level TR alignment is machine-assisted and manually overridden where the unit was known to require address-level judgment; printed NA29-apparatus review and independent witness collation remain open. Metzger notes are exact-verse matches to his earlier UBS4 commentary and are not represented as explanations of later ECM decisions.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T02:09:27+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2256", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 14:3 — “Bearing Witness unto the Word of His Grace”: Does the Preposition Belong?", "slug": "acts-14-3-bearing-witness-unto-the-word-of-his-grace-does-the-preposition-belong", "excerpt": "Scrivener, SBLGNT, Tregelles, and the Byzantine reconstruction use the dative article alone.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-14-3-bearing-witness-unto-the-word-of-his-grace-does-the-preposition-belong/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "All 169 edition-change rows were reconciled to the controlled workbook and grouped into 154 canonical verse cards. TR and Authorized Version full-verse texts were attached from the project’s Scrivener/KJV sources. Row-level TR alignment is machine-assisted and manually overridden where the unit was known to require address-level judgment; printed NA29-apparatus review and independent witness collation remain open. Metzger notes are exact-verse matches to his earlier UBS4 commentary and are not represented as explanations of later ECM decisions.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T02:09:27+00:00" }, { "record_id": "PER-3099", "post_type": "cb_person", "record_type": "Person", "title": "Günther Zuntz", "slug": "gunther-zuntz", "excerpt": "Günther Zuntz was a German-born classical scholar and papyrologist who worked in Britain after leaving Nazi Germany.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/people/gunther-zuntz/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Recovered project data; bibliographic and source-level verification remains record-specific.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T02:07:57+00:00" }, { "record_id": "PER-3100", "post_type": "cb_person", "record_type": "Person", "title": "Huldrych Zwingli", "slug": "huldrych-zwingli", "excerpt": "Huldrych Zwingli was the leading early reformer of Zürich.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/people/huldrych-zwingli/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Recovered project data; bibliographic and source-level verification remains record-specific.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T02:07:57+00:00" }, { "record_id": "PER-3092", "post_type": "cb_person", "record_type": "Person", "title": "Julius Wellhausen", "slug": "julius-wellhausen", "excerpt": "Julius Wellhausen was a German biblical scholar and orientalist whose Prolegomena to the History of Israel gave classic form to the documentary hypothesis and a developmental account of Israelite religion.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/people/julius-wellhausen/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Recovered project data; bibliographic and source-level verification remains record-specific.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T02:07:56+00:00" }, { "record_id": "PER-3093", "post_type": "cb_person", "record_type": "Person", "title": "Brooke Foss Westcott", "slug": "brooke-foss-westcott", "excerpt": "Brooke Foss Westcott was an Anglican scholar, bishop, member of the New Testament Revision Company, and co-editor with Fenton John Anthony Hort of The New Testament in the Original Greek.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/people/brooke-foss-westcott/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Recovered project data; bibliographic and source-level verification remains record-specific.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T02:07:56+00:00" }, { "record_id": "PER-3094", "post_type": "cb_person", "record_type": "Person", "title": "Johann Jakob Wettstein", "slug": "johann-jakob-wettstein", "excerpt": "Johann Jakob Wettstein was a Swiss-born scholar and manuscript collator whose Amsterdam Greek New Testament offered an extensive apparatus and abundant parallels from classical, Jewish, and patristic literature.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/people/johann-jakob-wettstein/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Recovered project data; bibliographic and source-level verification remains record-specific.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T02:07:56+00:00" }, { "record_id": "PER-3095", "post_type": "cb_person", "record_type": "Person", "title": "William Whitaker", "slug": "william-whitaker", "excerpt": "William Whitaker was a Cambridge theologian and one of the foremost English Protestant controversialists of the late sixteenth century.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/people/william-whitaker/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Recovered project data; bibliographic and source-level verification remains record-specific.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T02:07:56+00:00" }, { "record_id": "PER-3096", "post_type": "cb_person", "record_type": "Person", "title": "James R. 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Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:55:14+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2300", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 27:16 — Clauda or Cauda? The Island That Sheltered Paul’s Ship", "slug": "acts-27-16-clauda-or-cauda-the-island-that-sheltered-pauls-ship", "excerpt": "Scrivener reads Κλαύδην, Clauda; SBLGNT and NA28 read Καῦδα, Cauda.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-27-16-clauda-or-cauda-the-island-that-sheltered-pauls-ship/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:55:14+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2301", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 27:37 — Two Hundred Threescore and Sixteen Souls: Is 276 the Authentic Number?", "slug": "acts-27-37-two-hundred-threescore-and-sixteen-souls-is-276-the-authentic-number", "excerpt": "The numeral 276 is shared by Scrivener, SBLGNT, Tregelles, and NA28.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-27-37-two-hundred-threescore-and-sixteen-souls-is-276-the-authentic-number/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:55:14+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2294", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 24:15 — “A Resurrection of the Dead, Both of the Just and Unjust”: Does “of the Dead” Belong?", "slug": "acts-24-15-a-resurrection-of-the-dead-both-of-the-just-and-unjust-does-of-the-dead-belong", "excerpt": "The main critical form omits νεκρῶν, ‘of the dead.’ Resurrection already implies the dead, but Scrivener states the object and then divides that raised company into just and unjust.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-24-15-a-resurrection-of-the-dead-both-of-the-just-and-unjust-does-of-the-dead-belong/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:55:13+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2295", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 24:24 — Faith in Christ or Faith in Christ Jesus? Felix Hears Paul", "slug": "acts-24-24-faith-in-christ-or-faith-in-christ-jesus-felix-hears-paul", "excerpt": "Scrivener and Tregelles read only Χριστόν; SBLGNT and NA28 add Ἰησοῦν.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-24-24-faith-in-christ-or-faith-in-christ-jesus-felix-hears-paul/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:55:13+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2296", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 25:6 — More than Ten Days or Eight or Ten Days? Festus’s Stay at Jerusalem", "slug": "acts-25-6-more-than-ten-days-or-eight-or-ten-days-festuss-stay-at-jerusalem", "excerpt": "Scrivener reads πλείους, ‘more,’ and the Authorized Version supplies ‘than ten days’ from the numeral tradition.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-25-6-more-than-ten-days-or-eight-or-ten-days-festuss-stay-at-jerusalem/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:55:13+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2297", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 26:14 — “It Is Hard for Thee to Kick against the Pricks”: The Saying in Its Undisputed Setting", "slug": "acts-26-14-it-is-hard-for-thee-to-kick-against-the-pricks-the-saying-in-its-undisputed-setting", "excerpt": "The proverb is secure in Scrivener, SBLGNT, and NA28 at Acts 26:14.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-26-14-it-is-hard-for-thee-to-kick-against-the-pricks-the-saying-in-its-undisputed-setting/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:55:13+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2290", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 22:26 — “Take Heed What Thou Doest”: Is the Centurion’s Warning Authentic?", "slug": "acts-22-26-take-heed-what-thou-doest-is-the-centurions-warning-authentic", "excerpt": "Scrivener includes ὅρα, ‘see’ or ‘take heed,’ before the centurion’s question.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-22-26-take-heed-what-thou-doest-is-the-centurions-warning-authentic/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:55:12+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2291", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 23:9 — “Let Us Not Fight against God”: The Omitted End of the Pharisees’ Defense", "slug": "acts-23-9-let-us-not-fight-against-god-the-omitted-end-of-the-pharisees-defense", "excerpt": "The received text completes the Pharisees’ defense with μὴ θεομαχῶμεν, ‘let us not fight against God.’ SBLGNT and NA28 end after the possibility of a spirit or angel speaking, leaving the sentence abrupt or requiring punctuation to supply its force.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-23-9-let-us-not-fight-against-god-the-omitted-end-of-the-pharisees-defense/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:55:12+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2292", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 23:30 — The Accusers, the Governor, and “Farewell”: The Full Text of Claudius Lysias’s Letter", "slug": "acts-23-30-the-accusers-the-governor-and-farewell-the-full-text-of-claudius-lysiass-letter", "excerpt": "The received letter includes the reported Jewish plot, an explicit object for the accusation, and the closing Ἔρρωσο, ‘Farewell.’ SBLGNT and NA28 shorten these elements, though all forms preserve Lysias’s transfer of Paul and summons of the accusers.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-23-30-the-accusers-the-governor-and-farewell-the-full-text-of-claudius-lysiass-letter/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:55:12+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2293", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 24:6–8 — The Missing Account of Lysias’s Intervention and the Command to the Accusers", "slug": "acts-24-68-the-missing-account-of-lysiass-intervention-and-the-command-to-the-accusers", "excerpt": "SBLGNT and NA28 omit Acts 24:6b–8a: the attempted Jewish hearing, Lysias’s forceful intervention, and his command that the accusers come to Felix.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-24-68-the-missing-account-of-lysiass-intervention-and-the-command-to-the-accusers/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:55:12+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2286", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 21:20 — “How Many Thousands of Jews There Are Which Believe”", "slug": "acts-21-20-how-many-thousands-of-jews-there-are-which-believe", "excerpt": "The divine title is ‘Lord’ in Scrivener and ‘God’ in SBLGNT and NA28.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-21-20-how-many-thousands-of-jews-there-are-which-believe/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:55:11+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2287", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 21:25 — The Apostolic Decree Repeated: Which Prohibitions Belong?", "slug": "acts-21-25-the-apostolic-decree-repeated-which-prohibitions-belong", "excerpt": "The received text repeats the council’s ruling with an explicit negative: Gentile believers need observe no such law-keeping demand, except the stated prohibitions.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-21-25-the-apostolic-decree-repeated-which-prohibitions-belong/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:55:11+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2288", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 22:9 — Did Paul’s Companions Hear the Voice or Not Hear It?", "slug": "acts-22-9-did-pauls-companions-hear-the-voice-or-not-hear-it", "excerpt": "The critical form omits ‘and were afraid,’ but the famous comparison with Acts 9:7 does not arise from that omission.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-22-9-did-pauls-companions-hear-the-voice-or-not-hear-it/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:55:11+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2289", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 22:16 — “Calling on the Name of the Lord”: Does the Title Belong?", "slug": "acts-22-16-calling-on-the-name-of-the-lord-does-the-title-belong", "excerpt": "Scrivener names τοῦ κυρίου, ‘the Lord’; SBLGNT and NA28 use the pronoun αὐτοῦ, ‘his.’ The antecedent remains the risen Jesus who appeared to Paul and sent Ananias, but the received form states the title rather than leaving it pronominal.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-22-16-calling-on-the-name-of-the-lord-does-the-title-belong/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:55:11+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2282", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 20:25 — “Preaching the Kingdom of God”: Has “of God” Been Omitted?", "slug": "acts-20-25-preaching-the-kingdom-of-god-has-of-god-been-omitted", "excerpt": "The main critical form omits τοῦ θεοῦ after ‘kingdom.’ Context makes God’s kingdom the natural referent, but Scrivener states it directly as Paul recalls his preaching among the Ephesian elders.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-20-25-preaching-the-kingdom-of-god-has-of-god-been-omitted/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:55:10+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2283", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 20:28 — The Church of God or of the Lord? Purchased with His Own Blood", "slug": "acts-20-28-the-church-of-god-or-of-the-lord-purchased-with-his-own-blood", "excerpt": "Scrivener and NA28 agree on ‘church of God’; Tregelles reads ‘church of the Lord,’ while the reconstructed Byzantine form reads ‘of the Lord and God.’ Word order also creates the possible critical rendering ‘the blood of his own [Son],’ though ‘his own blood’ remains grammatically defensible.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-20-28-the-church-of-god-or-of-the-lord-purchased-with-his-own-blood/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:55:10+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2284", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 20:32 — “And Now, Brethren”: Commended to God or to the Lord?", "slug": "acts-20-32-and-now-brethren-commended-to-god-or-to-the-lord", "excerpt": "SBLGNT and NA28 omit ‘brethren,’ but agree with Scrivener on θεῷ, ‘God.’ Westcott–Hort alone in the comparison reads ‘the Lord.’ Additional variants affect the verbs for building up and the placement of the inheritance phrase.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-20-32-and-now-brethren-commended-to-god-or-to-the-lord/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:55:10+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2285", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 21:8 — “We That Were of Paul’s Company”: Does the Identifying Clause Belong?", "slug": "acts-21-8-we-that-were-of-pauls-company-does-the-identifying-clause-belong", "excerpt": "Scrivener explicitly names ‘those around Paul’ and uses a third-person verb before the narration returns to ‘we.’ The critical form omits the identifying clause and keeps the journey consistently in the first person plural.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-21-8-we-that-were-of-pauls-company-does-the-identifying-clause-belong/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:55:10+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2279", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 19:9 — The School of Tyrannus and the Western Addition of the Teaching Hours", "slug": "acts-19-9-the-school-of-tyrannus-and-the-western-addition-of-the-teaching-hours", "excerpt": "Scrivener adds τινός, the basis of ‘one Tyrannus’; SBLGNT and NA28 omit it.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-19-9-the-school-of-tyrannus-and-the-western-addition-of-the-teaching-hours/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. 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Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. 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What Apollos Knew", "slug": "acts-18-25-the-way-of-the-lord-or-the-things-concerning-jesus-what-apollos-knew", "excerpt": "The first ‘Lord’ is common to the principal forms.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-18-25-the-way-of-the-lord-or-the-things-concerning-jesus-what-apollos-knew/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. 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Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:55:07+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2273", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 17:27 — Seek the Lord or Seek God? The Areopagus Call to Repentance", "slug": "acts-17-27-seek-the-lord-or-seek-god-the-areopagus-call-to-repentance", "excerpt": "The object is κύριον, ‘the Lord,’ in Scrivener and θεόν, ‘God,’ in SBLGNT and NA28.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-17-27-seek-the-lord-or-seek-god-the-areopagus-call-to-repentance/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. 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Paul at Corinth", "slug": "acts-18-5-pressed-in-spirit-or-occupied-with-the-word-paul-at-corinth", "excerpt": "Scrivener reads πνεύματι, locating the constraint in Paul’s spirit or in spiritual pressure.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-18-5-pressed-in-spirit-or-occupied-with-the-word-paul-at-corinth/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. 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Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:55:06+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2270", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 17:5 — “The Jews Which Believed Not” and Certain Lewd Fellows of the Baser Sort", "slug": "acts-17-5-the-jews-which-believed-not-and-certain-lewd-fellows-of-the-baser-sort", "excerpt": "Scrivener identifies the hostile Jews as ‘those who disbelieved’ and then narrates their recruitment of marketplace idlers.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-17-5-the-jews-which-believed-not-and-certain-lewd-fellows-of-the-baser-sort/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. 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Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. 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Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:55:05+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2265", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 16:7 — The Spirit or the Spirit of Jesus? 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Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:55:04+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2262", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 15:23 — Apostles, Elders, and Brethren—or Apostles and Elder Brethren?", "slug": "acts-15-23-apostles-elders-and-brethrenor-apostles-and-elder-brethren", "excerpt": "Scrivener adds καὶ οἱ before ‘brethren,’ yielding three sending groups: apostles, elders, and brethren.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-15-23-apostles-elders-and-brethrenor-apostles-and-elder-brethren/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:55:04+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2263", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 15:24 — “Ye Must Be Circumcised, and Keep the Law”: Does the Condemned Command Belong?", "slug": "acts-15-24-ye-must-be-circumcised-and-keep-the-law-does-the-condemned-command-belong", "excerpt": "The received letter identifies the unauthorized teachers’ demand in their own terms: circumcision and law-keeping.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-15-24-ye-must-be-circumcised-and-keep-the-law-does-the-condemned-command-belong/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:55:04+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2257", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 14:14 — Were Barnabas and Paul Both Called Apostles?", "slug": "acts-14-14-were-barnabas-and-paul-both-called-apostles", "excerpt": "The title ‘apostles’ governs both Barnabas and Paul in every principal form.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-14-14-were-barnabas-and-paul-both-called-apostles/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. 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Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:55:03+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2258", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 14:19 — Persuading the People, Stoning Paul, and Drawing Him from the City", "slug": "acts-14-19-persuading-the-people-stoning-paul-and-drawing-him-from-the-city", "excerpt": "Scrivener’s aorist participle presents the crowd’s conclusion after the stoning, with an infinitive meaning ‘to have died.’ The critical form uses a present participle and perfect infinitive, emphasizing their continuing assumption that Paul was dead.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-14-19-persuading-the-people-stoning-paul-and-drawing-him-from-the-city/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. 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Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. 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Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. 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Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:55:01+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2247", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 11:23 — “Cleave unto the Lord”: Does the Title Belong?", "slug": "acts-11-23-cleave-unto-the-lord-does-the-title-belong", "excerpt": "The main difference at the title level is not the divine title: ‘the Lord’ appears in both controls.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-11-23-cleave-unto-the-lord-does-the-title-belong/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:55:00+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2248", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 12:4 — Easter or Passover? What the Greek Text Says and What the English Means", "slug": "acts-12-4-easter-or-passover-what-the-greek-text-says-and-what-the-english-means", "excerpt": "Every Greek control reads πάσχα.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-12-4-easter-or-passover-what-the-greek-text-says-and-what-the-english-means/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:55:00+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2249", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 12:17 — James, the Brethren, and Peter’s Departure: The Text of the Report", "slug": "acts-12-17-james-the-brethren-and-peters-departure-the-text-of-the-report", "excerpt": "Peter’s instruction, James’s name, the brethren, and the departure to another place are common to the principal texts.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-12-17-james-the-brethren-and-peters-departure-the-text-of-the-report/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:55:00+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2243", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 10:36–40 — Jesus Christ, Lord of All, Raised “the Third Day”", "slug": "acts-10-3640-jesus-christ-lord-of-all-raised-the-third-day", "excerpt": "The confession, universal lordship, anointing by the Holy Ghost, death on a tree, resurrection on the third day, and manifestation to witnesses all stand in the principal forms.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-10-3640-jesus-christ-lord-of-all-raised-the-third-day/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:59+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2244", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 10:48 — Baptized in the Name of the Lord or in the Name of Jesus Christ?", "slug": "acts-10-48-baptized-in-the-name-of-the-lord-or-in-the-name-of-jesus-christ", "excerpt": "The two forms explicitly name the baptismal authority differently.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-10-48-baptized-in-the-name-of-the-lord-or-in-the-name-of-jesus-christ/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:59+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2245", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 11:12 — “Nothing Doubting” or “Making No Distinction”? Peter’s Recollection", "slug": "acts-11-12-nothing-doubting-or-making-no-distinction-peters-recollection", "excerpt": "The present participle διακρινόμενον can describe hesitation or inward doubt; the aorist διακρίναντα in the critical form points more naturally to making a distinction.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-11-12-nothing-doubting-or-making-no-distinction-peters-recollection/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:59+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2246", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 11:20 — Greeks or Grecians? 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Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:59+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2239", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 9:31 — Church or Churches? The Number and Geography of Peace", "slug": "acts-9-31-church-or-churches-the-number-and-geography-of-peace", "excerpt": "Every related verb and participle changes number with the noun: Scrivener has plural churches; the critical form has one singular church spread across the three regions.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-9-31-church-or-churches-the-number-and-geography-of-peace/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:58+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2240", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 10:19 — Two Men or Three? The Messengers at Peter’s Gate", "slug": "acts-10-19-two-men-or-three-the-messengers-at-peters-gate", "excerpt": "The tradition divides three ways.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-10-19-two-men-or-three-the-messengers-at-peters-gate/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:58+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2241", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 10:30 — “Four Days Ago I Was Fasting”: Is Cornelius’s Fast Authentic?", "slug": "acts-10-30-four-days-ago-i-was-fasting-is-corneliuss-fast-authentic", "excerpt": "The received text includes νηστεύων καί, ‘fasting and,’ and explicitly names the ninth hour.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-10-30-four-days-ago-i-was-fasting-is-corneliuss-fast-authentic/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:58+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2242", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 10:33 — “Commanded Thee of God” or “by the Lord”?", "slug": "acts-10-33-commanded-thee-of-god-or-by-the-lord", "excerpt": "Scrivener reads θεοῦ, ‘God’; SBLGNT and NA28 read κυρίου, ‘Lord.’ In either form Cornelius recognizes that Peter’s message comes under divine command, yet the title assigned to the commanding source is a real lexical variation.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-10-33-commanded-thee-of-god-or-by-the-lord/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:58+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2236", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 9:5–6 — “It Is Hard for Thee to Kick against the Pricks”: The Full Damascus Saying", "slug": "acts-9-56-it-is-hard-for-thee-to-kick-against-the-pricks-the-full-damascus-saying", "excerpt": "The received form at Acts 9 carries the fuller dialogue known in the Authorized Version.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-9-56-it-is-hard-for-thee-to-kick-against-the-pricks-the-full-damascus-saying/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:57+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2237", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 9:17 — “The Lord, Even Jesus”: Who Sent Ananias?", "slug": "acts-9-17-the-lord-even-jesus-who-sent-ananias", "excerpt": "Scrivener, SBLGNT, and NA28 all identify the sender as Jesus.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-9-17-the-lord-even-jesus-who-sent-ananias/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:57+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2238", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 9:20, 22 — Did Paul Preach Christ or the Son of God, and Whom Did He Prove to Be Christ?", "slug": "acts-9-20-22-did-paul-preach-christ-or-the-son-of-god-and-whom-did-he-prove-to-be-christ", "excerpt": "At verse 20 the received text names ‘Christ,’ whereas SBLGNT and NA28 name ‘Jesus.’ Verse 22 then says Saul proved ‘this one’ to be the Christ in both forms; the two readings differ in immediate naming but not in the argument that Jesus is the Son of God and the Christ.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-9-20-22-did-paul-preach-christ-or-the-son-of-god-and-whom-did-he-prove-to-be-christ/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:57+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2232", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 8:10 — “The Great Power of God”: What Exactly Was Simon Called?", "slug": "acts-8-10-the-great-power-of-god-what-exactly-was-simon-called", "excerpt": "The critical form adds καλουμένη, ‘called,’ making ‘Great’ the reported designation of Simon or of the power attributed to him.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-8-10-the-great-power-of-god-what-exactly-was-simon-called/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. 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Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:51+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2216", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 4:12 — “Neither Is There Salvation in Any Other”: The Emphatic Order of the Only Name", "slug": "acts-4-12-neither-is-there-salvation-in-any-other-the-emphatic-order-of-the-only-name", "excerpt": "Οὔτε in Scrivener and οὐδέ in the principal critical editions give slightly different connectives but the same exclusive assertion.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-4-12-neither-is-there-salvation-in-any-other-the-emphatic-order-of-the-only-name/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. 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Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:50+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2211", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 2:37–47 — Repentance, Baptism, Fellowship, and Those Added to the Church", "slug": "acts-2-3747-repentance-baptism-fellowship-and-those-added-to-the-church", "excerpt": "This long unit contains several small differences and two conspicuous shortenings: ‘gladly’ is absent from the critical form, and ‘to the church’ becomes ‘together’ or ‘to their number.’ Repentance, baptism in Jesus Christ’s name, the gift of the Holy Ghost, apostolic doctrine, fellowship, breaking bread, and prayers remain common ground.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-2-3747-repentance-baptism-fellowship-and-those-added-to-the-church/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:50+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2212", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 3:6 — “Rise Up and Walk”: Do Both Commands Belong?", "slug": "acts-3-6-rise-up-and-walk-do-both-commands-belong", "excerpt": "SBLGNT follows a shorter reading that lacks ‘rise up,’ but NA28 and Tregelles retain both commands, with only a small imperative-form difference from Scrivener.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-3-6-rise-up-and-walk-do-both-commands-belong/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:50+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2206", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 2:1–4 — “All with One Accord in One Place”: The Full Opening of Pentecost", "slug": "acts-2-14-all-with-one-accord-in-one-place-the-full-opening-of-pentecost", "excerpt": "Scrivener’s ἅπαντες ὁμοθυμαδόν stresses the whole company and its one accord; SBLGNT and NA28 read πάντες ὁμοῦ, ‘all together.’ Related word-order changes occur in verses 3–4, yet every principal form records the sound, divided tongues, filling by the Holy Ghost, and other tongues.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-2-14-all-with-one-accord-in-one-place-the-full-opening-of-pentecost/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:49+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2207", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 2:7 — “Are Not All These Which Speak Galilaeans?” The Crowd’s Astonishment", "slug": "acts-2-7-are-not-all-these-which-speak-galilaeans-the-crowds-astonishment", "excerpt": "The received text supplies ‘all’ and ‘to one another’ around the crowd’s question.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-2-7-are-not-all-these-which-speak-galilaeans-the-crowds-astonishment/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:49+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2208", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 2:17–18 — “I Will Pour Out of My Spirit”: Peter’s Citation of Joel", "slug": "acts-2-1718-i-will-pour-out-of-my-spirit-peters-citation-of-joel", "excerpt": "Neither Scrivener nor the main critical form removes ‘of my Spirit,’ the sons and daughters, or the second promise that the servants and handmaidens shall prophesy.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-2-1718-i-will-pour-out-of-my-spirit-peters-citation-of-joel/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:49+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2209", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 2:23 — “By Wicked Hands” or “through Lawless Men”? The Crucifixion Charge", "slug": "acts-2-23-by-wicked-hands-or-through-lawless-men-the-crucifixion-charge", "excerpt": "Scrivener includes λαβόντες, ‘having taken,’ and uses the plural ‘hands’; the SBLGNT form omits the participle and uses the singular ‘hand’ as an agency construction.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-2-23-by-wicked-hands-or-through-lawless-men-the-crucifixion-charge/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:49+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2202", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 1:8 — Jerusalem, All Judaea, Samaria, and the Uttermost Part of the Earth", "slug": "acts-1-8-jerusalem-all-judaea-samaria-and-the-uttermost-part-of-the-earth", "excerpt": "Scrivener reads μοι, the dative ‘to me,’ while SBLGNT and NA28 read μου, the genitive ‘my.’ Jerusalem, Judaea, Samaria, and the uttermost earth appear in both forms; the variation touches the relation of the witnesses to Christ, not the mission’s geography.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-1-8-jerusalem-all-judaea-samaria-and-the-uttermost-part-of-the-earth/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:48+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2203", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 1:11 — “Taken Up from You into Heaven”: Preposition, Repetition, and the Promise of Return", "slug": "acts-1-11-taken-up-from-you-into-heaven-preposition-repetition-and-the-promise-of-return", "excerpt": "The ascension, the phrase ‘from you into heaven,’ its repetition, and the promise of Christ’s like return survive intact in Scrivener, SBLGNT, and NA28.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-1-11-taken-up-from-you-into-heaven-preposition-repetition-and-the-promise-of-return/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:48+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2204", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 1:14 — Prayer, Supplication, the Women, Mary, and the Brethren of Jesus", "slug": "acts-1-14-prayer-supplication-the-women-mary-and-the-brethren-of-jesus", "excerpt": "The received text adds ‘and supplication’ and repeats the connective before Jesus’ brethren.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-1-14-prayer-supplication-the-women-mary-and-the-brethren-of-jesus/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:48+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2205", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 1:18–26 — Judas’s Fall, His Vacant Office, and the Numbering of Matthias", "slug": "acts-1-1826-judass-fall-his-vacant-office-and-the-numbering-of-matthias", "excerpt": "Across Judas’s death and Matthias’s appointment, most differences are case, order, or vocabulary.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-1-1826-judass-fall-his-vacant-office-and-the-numbering-of-matthias/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:48+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2199", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 20:31 — “That Ye Might Believe” or “Might Continue Believing”? The Gospel’s Purpose", "slug": "john-20-31-that-ye-might-believe-or-might-continue-believing-the-gospels-purpose", "excerpt": "The aorist and present forms of “believe” have been used to argue for evangelistic or confirmatory purposes, but aspect alone cannot identify John’s entire intended audience.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-20-31-that-ye-might-believe-or-might-continue-believing-the-gospels-purpose/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:47+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2200", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 21:23–25 — “What Is That to Thee?” The Final Testimony and the Closing “Amen”", "slug": "john-21-2325-what-is-that-to-thee-the-final-testimony-and-the-closing-amen", "excerpt": "The Gospel closes by correcting a rumor, certifying the beloved disciple’s testimony, and—in the received text—ending with Amen; the principal texts share the corrective saying but vary the close.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-21-2325-what-is-that-to-thee-the-final-testimony-and-the-closing-amen/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:47+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2201", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Acts 1:4 — Assembled with Them or Eating with Them? The Meaning of *Synalizomenos*", "slug": "acts-1-4-assembled-with-them-or-eating-with-them-the-meaning-of-synalizomenos", "excerpt": "The lexical question concerns συναλιζόμενος.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/acts-1-4-assembled-with-them-or-eating-with-them-the-meaning-of-synalizomenos/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:47+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2196", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 19:14 — The Sixth Hour or the Third Hour? The Chronology of the Crucifixion", "slug": "john-19-14-the-sixth-hour-or-the-third-hour-the-chronology-of-the-crucifixion", "excerpt": "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.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-19-14-the-sixth-hour-or-the-third-hour-the-chronology-of-the-crucifixion/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:46+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2197", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 19:35 — “That Ye Might Believe” or “Continue to Believe”? The Witness at the Cross", "slug": "john-19-35-that-ye-might-believe-or-continue-to-believe-the-witness-at-the-cross", "excerpt": "The received aorist and critical present subjunctives differ in aspect, and the critical form adds “also”; neither tense by itself proves whether the readers are first coming to faith or continuing in it.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-19-35-that-ye-might-believe-or-continue-to-believe-the-witness-at-the-cross/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:46+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2198", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 20:17, 23, 29 — “My Father,” Remitted Sins, and the Naming of Thomas", "slug": "john-20-17-23-29-my-father-remitted-sins-and-the-naming-of-thomas", "excerpt": "Three resurrection-scene variations concern a possessive before Father, the tense of sins forgiven, and Jesus’ direct use of Thomas’s name.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-20-17-23-29-my-father-remitted-sins-and-the-naming-of-thomas/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:46+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2193", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 16:23 — Asking the Father in Christ’s Name: Which Words Govern the Promise?", "slug": "john-16-23-asking-the-father-in-christs-name-which-words-govern-the-promise", "excerpt": "Word order and punctuation decide whether “in my name” most directly modifies the disciples’ asking or the Father’s giving, though both ideas belong to the discourse.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-16-23-asking-the-father-in-christs-name-which-words-govern-the-promise/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:45+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2194", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 17:11–12, 20 — Those Given to the Son and Those Who Shall Believe through Their Word", "slug": "john-17-1112-20-those-given-to-the-son-and-those-who-shall-believe-through-their-word", "excerpt": "The received prayer speaks of persons given to the Son and of those who shall believe; the critical forms can make the Father’s name the gift and use a present participle for future believers.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-17-1112-20-those-given-to-the-son-and-those-who-shall-believe-through-their-word/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:45+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2195", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 18:13–27 — Annas, Caiaphas, and Peter: Did Scribes Rearrange the Trial Narrative?", "slug": "john-18-1327-annas-caiaphas-and-peter-did-scribes-rearrange-the-trial-narrative", "excerpt": "Some witnesses relocate the notice that Annas sent Jesus to Caiaphas, but the principal Greek texts preserve the same sequence; the KJV’s “had sent” is contextual English for an aorist.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-18-1327-annas-caiaphas-and-peter-did-scribes-rearrange-the-trial-narrative/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. 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Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. 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Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. 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Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:44+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2187", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 14:2 — “If It Were Not So, I Would Have Told You”: Statement or Question?", "slug": "john-14-2-if-it-were-not-so-i-would-have-told-you-statement-or-question", "excerpt": "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.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-14-2-if-it-were-not-so-i-would-have-told-you-statement-or-question/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:43+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2188", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 14:7 — “If Ye Had Known Me” or “If Ye Know Me”? 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Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:43+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2189", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 14:14–15 — “Ask Anything in My Name” and “Keep My Commandments”: Pronoun and Mood", "slug": "john-14-1415-ask-anything-in-my-name-and-keep-my-commandments-pronoun-and-mood", "excerpt": "The critical text adds “me” as the direct object of prayer in verse 14 and changes the received imperative “keep” to the future “you will keep” in verse 15.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-14-1415-ask-anything-in-my-name-and-keep-my-commandments-pronoun-and-mood/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:43+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2183", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 12:41 — Because Isaiah Saw Christ’s Glory or When He Saw It?", "slug": "john-12-41-because-isaiah-saw-christs-glory-or-when-he-saw-it", "excerpt": "One letter changes the conjunction: the received text says Isaiah spoke these things “when” he saw Christ’s glory; the critical text says he spoke them “because” he saw it.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-12-41-because-isaiah-saw-christs-glory-or-when-he-saw-it/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:42+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2184", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 13:2 — Supper Ended or Supper in Progress? A Single Letter with Narrative Consequences", "slug": "john-13-2-supper-ended-or-supper-in-progress-a-single-letter-with-narrative-consequences", "excerpt": "The received aorist participle describes supper as having occurred, while the critical present participle presents it as taking place; the KJV’s “ended” should be read with the scene’s continuation in view.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-13-2-supper-ended-or-supper-in-progress-a-single-letter-with-narrative-consequences/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:42+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2185", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 13:10 — “Save to Wash His Feet”: The Text of the Cleansing Saying", "slug": "john-13-10-save-to-wash-his-feet-the-text-of-the-cleansing-saying", "excerpt": "The received and critical forms both retain the exception about washing the feet; they differ chiefly in word order and the idiom introducing the exception.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-13-10-save-to-wash-his-feet-the-text-of-the-cleansing-saying/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:42+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2186", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 13:32 — “If God Be Glorified in Him”: Is the Entire Opening Clause Authentic?", "slug": "john-13-32-if-god-be-glorified-in-him-is-the-entire-opening-clause-authentic", "excerpt": "The conditional opening is omitted by important witnesses but retained in the received text and printed in the current SBLGNT with an apparatus marker.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-13-32-if-god-be-glorified-in-him-is-the-entire-opening-clause-authentic/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:42+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2178", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 11:50 — “It Is Expedient for Us” or “for You”? 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Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:41+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2179", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 12:4 — “Judas Iscariot, Simon’s Son, Which Should Betray Him”: The Full Identification", "slug": "john-12-4-judas-iscariot-simons-son-which-should-betray-him-the-full-identification", "excerpt": "The received text gives Judas’ patronymic and future betrayal in a full identification; the critical form omits Simon’s name and calls him one of the disciples.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-12-4-judas-iscariot-simons-son-which-should-betray-him-the-full-identification/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:41+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2180", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 12:8 — “The Poor Always Ye Have with You”: Is the Entire Verse Authentic?", "slug": "john-12-8-the-poor-always-ye-have-with-you-is-the-entire-verse-authentic", "excerpt": "John 12:8 stands in the received text and the principal modern critical editions; the substantive question is its meaning, not a current whole-verse omission.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-12-8-the-poor-always-ye-have-with-you-is-the-entire-verse-authentic/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:41+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2181", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 12:28 — “Father, Glorify Thy Name” or “Glorify Thy Son”?", "slug": "john-12-28-father-glorify-thy-name-or-glorify-thy-son", "excerpt": "The received and leading critical texts agree that Jesus asks the Father to glorify his name; “glorify thy Son” belongs to the wider variation record, not the current principal text.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-12-28-father-glorify-thy-name-or-glorify-thy-son/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:41+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2182", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 12:32 — “I Will Draw All Men unto Me” or “All Things”?", "slug": "john-12-32-i-will-draw-all-men-unto-me-or-all-things", "excerpt": "Both principal texts use the masculine plural “all,” naturally referring to people; “men” is supplied in English, while the neuter “all things” is a minority reading.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-12-32-i-will-draw-all-men-unto-me-or-all-things/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:41+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2174", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 10:26, 29 — “Not of My Sheep” and the Father Greater than All", "slug": "john-10-26-29-not-of-my-sheep-and-the-father-greater-than-all", "excerpt": "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.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-10-26-29-not-of-my-sheep-and-the-father-greater-than-all/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:40+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2175", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 10:38 — “Know and Believe” or “Understand”? 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Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:40+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2176", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 11:25 — “I Am the Resurrection, and the Life”: Does the Full Title Belong?", "slug": "john-11-25-i-am-the-resurrection-and-the-life-does-the-full-title-belong", "excerpt": "The full declaration “I am the resurrection and the life” stands in both the received text and the principal modern critical editions.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-11-25-i-am-the-resurrection-and-the-life-does-the-full-title-belong/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:40+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2177", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 11:41 — “From the Place Where the Dead Was Laid”: Has the Clause Been Removed?", "slug": "john-11-41-from-the-place-where-the-dead-was-laid-has-the-clause-been-removed", "excerpt": "The received text specifies that the stone was removed from the place where the dead man lay; the critical text says simply that they removed the stone.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-11-41-from-the-place-where-the-dead-was-laid-has-the-clause-been-removed/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:40+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2170", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 9:4 — “I Must Work” or “We Must Work”? Who Performs the Works of God?", "slug": "john-9-4-i-must-work-or-we-must-work-who-performs-the-works-of-god", "excerpt": "The received singular makes Jesus the speaker and worker sent by the Father; the critical plural draws the disciples into the daytime labor while retaining a singular “me” later in the sentence.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-9-4-i-must-work-or-we-must-work-who-performs-the-works-of-god/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:39+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2171", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 9:35 — “Dost Thou Believe on the Son of God?” or “the Son of Man”?", "slug": "john-9-35-dost-thou-believe-on-the-son-of-god-or-the-son-of-man", "excerpt": "Jesus’ question to the man born blind names the “Son of God” in the received text and the “Son of Man” in the principal critical editions.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-9-35-dost-thou-believe-on-the-son-of-god-or-the-son-of-man/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. 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Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:39+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2173", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 10:16 — One Fold or One Flock? Text, Translation, and Christ’s One Church", "slug": "john-10-16-one-fold-or-one-flock-text-translation-and-christs-one-church", "excerpt": "John uses one Greek noun for the enclosure and another for the gathered flock; the Authorized Version’s second “fold” obscures, but does not erase, that distinction.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-10-16-one-fold-or-one-flock-text-translation-and-christs-one-church/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:39+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2166", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 8:39 — “If Ye Were Abraham’s Children, Ye Would Do the Works of Abraham”", "slug": "john-8-39-if-ye-were-abrahams-children-ye-would-do-the-works-of-abraham", "excerpt": "A cluster of verb forms changes the force of Jesus’ reply from a contrary-to-fact condition to the sharper command or inference, “If you are Abraham’s children, do his works.”", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-8-39-if-ye-were-abrahams-children-ye-would-do-the-works-of-abraham/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:38+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2167", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 8:44 — “He Abode Not in the Truth”: Perfect or Imperfect, Stood or Abode?", "slug": "john-8-44-he-abode-not-in-the-truth-perfect-or-imperfect-stood-or-abode", "excerpt": "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.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-8-44-he-abode-not-in-the-truth-perfect-or-imperfect-stood-or-abode/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:38+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2168", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 8:54 — Your God or Our God? Direct and Indirect Discourse in Jesus’ Answer", "slug": "john-8-54-your-god-or-our-god-direct-and-indirect-discourse-in-jesus-answer", "excerpt": "The received “your God” reproduces Jesus’ opponents’ claim in direct discourse, while the critical “our God” includes Jesus and his hearers in the grammatical confession.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-8-54-your-god-or-our-god-direct-and-indirect-discourse-in-jesus-answer/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:38+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2169", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 8:59 — “Going through the Midst of Them, and So Passed By”: Is the Escape Clause Authentic?", "slug": "john-8-59-going-through-the-midst-of-them-and-so-passed-by-is-the-escape-clause-authentic", "excerpt": "The received text narrates Jesus passing through the hostile crowd after hiding himself; the critical text ends more abruptly with his departure from the temple.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-8-59-going-through-the-midst-of-them-and-so-passed-by-is-the-escape-clause-authentic/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:38+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2162", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 8:6, 8 — What Did Jesus Write on the Ground, and What Does the Text Actually Say?", "slug": "john-8-6-8-what-did-jesus-write-on-the-ground-and-what-does-the-text-actually-say", "excerpt": "John twice says that Jesus wrote on the ground but never reports the content; the received phrase “as though he heard them not” describes his refusal to answer the trap on demand.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-8-6-8-what-did-jesus-write-on-the-ground-and-what-does-the-text-actually-say/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:37+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2163", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 8:7–9 — “He That Is without Sin”: The First Stone, the Conscience, and the Eldest", "slug": "john-8-79-he-that-is-without-sin-the-first-stone-the-conscience-and-the-eldest", "excerpt": "Jesus places the would-be execution witnesses under the searching demand of the law; received details about conscience, age, and the last departure are not equally supported in every form of the story.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-8-79-he-that-is-without-sin-the-first-stone-the-conscience-and-the-eldest/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:37+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2164", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 8:10–11 — “Neither Do I Condemn Thee”: The Received Conclusion of the Pericope", "slug": "john-8-1011-neither-do-i-condemn-thee-the-received-conclusion-of-the-pericope", "excerpt": "The ending joins mercy and holiness in their proper order: Jesus declines to ratify the collapsed condemnation and commands the woman to abandon sin.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-8-1011-neither-do-i-condemn-thee-the-received-conclusion-of-the-pericope/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:37+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2165", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 8:16 — “The Father That Sent Me”: Does the Article or Pronoun Belong?", "slug": "john-8-16-the-father-that-sent-me-does-the-article-or-pronoun-belong", "excerpt": "The principal received and critical texts both name “the Father who sent me”; their clearer edition-level difference concerns the adjective for Christ’s true judgment.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-8-16-the-father-that-sent-me-does-the-article-or-pronoun-belong/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:37+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2158", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 7:53–8:11 IV — Vocabulary and Style: Is the Passage Really Non-Johannine?", "slug": "john-7-538-11-iv-vocabulary-and-style-is-the-passage-really-non-johannine", "excerpt": "The pericope contains unusual vocabulary and a synoptic narrative feel, but short subject-specific passages are poor material for absolute authorship tests.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-7-538-11-iv-vocabulary-and-style-is-the-passage-really-non-johannine/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:36+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2159", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 7:53–8:11 V — Alternative Locations in John and Luke: What Do the Transpositions Prove?", "slug": "john-7-538-11-v-alternative-locations-in-john-and-luke-what-do-the-transpositions-prove", "excerpt": "A small group of witnesses place the story after other verses in John or after Luke 21:38; these moves show transmission complexity but not a story with no canonical home.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-7-538-11-v-alternative-locations-in-john-and-luke-what-do-the-transpositions-prove/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:36+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2160", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 7:53–8:2 — From the Mount of Olives to the Temple: Does the Narrative Join Naturally?", "slug": "john-7-538-2-from-the-mount-of-olives-to-the-temple-does-the-narrative-join-naturally", "excerpt": "The received transition contrasts each man going home with Jesus going to the Mount of Olives and returning to teach in the temple at dawn.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-7-538-2-from-the-mount-of-olives-to-the-temple-does-the-narrative-join-naturally/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:36+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2161", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 8:3–6 — The Accusation, the Test, and the Attempt to Condemn Jesus", "slug": "john-8-36-the-accusation-the-test-and-the-attempt-to-condemn-jesus", "excerpt": "The accusers invoke Moses while withholding the woman’s partner and using the case to trap Jesus; the passage exposes a corrupt prosecution without weakening the law against adultery.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-8-36-the-accusation-the-test-and-the-attempt-to-condemn-jesus/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:36+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2154", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 7:39 — “The Holy Ghost Was Not Yet Given”: Does “Holy” Belong?", "slug": "john-7-39-the-holy-ghost-was-not-yet-given-does-holy-belong", "excerpt": "The received text reads “Holy Spirit”; the critical form has “Spirit” alone, while “given” is an English supplement in the Authorized Version.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-7-39-the-holy-ghost-was-not-yet-given-does-holy-belong/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:35+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2155", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 7:53–8:11 I — The Manuscript Case for the Woman Taken in Adultery", "slug": "john-7-538-11-i-the-manuscript-case-for-the-woman-taken-in-adultery", "excerpt": "The passage is absent from several early Greek witnesses yet preserved in Codex Bezae, the later continuous-text majority, versions, and lectionary transmission.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-7-538-11-i-the-manuscript-case-for-the-woman-taken-in-adultery/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:35+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2156", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 7:53–8:11 II — Early Fathers, Silence, and Positive Patristic Evidence", "slug": "john-7-538-11-ii-early-fathers-silence-and-positive-patristic-evidence", "excerpt": "Early commentary silence must be weighed beside positive knowledge of the story in the Didascalia, Didymus, Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, and other writers.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-7-538-11-ii-early-fathers-silence-and-positive-patristic-evidence/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:35+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2157", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 7:53–8:11 III — Lectionary Practice and the Church’s Public Reading of the Passage", "slug": "john-7-538-11-iii-lectionary-practice-and-the-churchs-public-reading-of-the-passage", "excerpt": "The Pentecost lesson bypassed the pericope while other services preserved it, creating skip marks and alternate placements that require liturgical interpretation.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-7-538-11-iii-lectionary-practice-and-the-churchs-public-reading-of-the-passage/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:35+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2151", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 6:55 — Meat and Drink “Indeed” or “Truly”? 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Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. 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Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:33+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2143", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 5:3–4 — The Angel Who Troubled the Water: Is the Passage Authentic?", "slug": "john-5-34-the-angel-who-troubled-the-water-is-the-passage-authentic", "excerpt": "The received account explains the waiting sick and the moving water; the critical text omits the end of verse 3 and all of verse 4.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-5-34-the-angel-who-troubled-the-water-is-the-passage-authentic/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. 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Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:32+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2144", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 5:17 — “But Jesus Answered Them”: Does the Name Belong?", "slug": "john-5-17-but-jesus-answered-them-does-the-name-belong", "excerpt": "Scrivener and NA28 explicitly name Jesus; the SBLGNT follows the shorter Westcott–Hort form, “but he answered them.”", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-5-17-but-jesus-answered-them-does-the-name-belong/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:32+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2145", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 5:36 — “Greater Witness” or “Greater Works”? The Evidence Christ Cites", "slug": "john-5-36-greater-witness-or-greater-works-the-evidence-christ-cites", "excerpt": "The principal Greek texts agree that Christ has a testimony greater than John’s and that the Father-given works bear that testimony.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-5-36-greater-witness-or-greater-works-the-evidence-christ-cites/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. 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Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. 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Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:31+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2140", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 3:15 — “Should Not Perish, but Have Eternal Life”: Does the Full Clause Belong?", "slug": "john-3-15-should-not-perish-but-have-eternal-life-does-the-full-clause-belong", "excerpt": "The received text includes “should not perish, but,” while the critical form moves directly from believing to having eternal life and changes the preposition.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-3-15-should-not-perish-but-have-eternal-life-does-the-full-clause-belong/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. 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Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:31+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2141", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 4:42 — “This Is Indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the World”", "slug": "john-4-42-this-is-indeed-the-christ-the-saviour-of-the-world", "excerpt": "The Samaritan confession names Jesus “the Christ, the Saviour of the world” in the received text; the critical form keeps “Saviour” but omits “the Christ.”", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-4-42-this-is-indeed-the-christ-the-saviour-of-the-world/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:31+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2142", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 5:2 — Bethesda, Bethzatha, or Bethsaida? 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Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:31+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2135", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 1:34 — The Son of God or the Chosen One of God? 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Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:30+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2136", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 1:42 — Simon Son of Jona or Simon Son of John?", "slug": "john-1-42-simon-son-of-jona-or-simon-son-of-john", "excerpt": "Jesus names Simon as the son of Jona in the received text and as the son of John in the principal critical editions.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-1-42-simon-son-of-jona-or-simon-son-of-john/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:30+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2137", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 2:3–4 — When the Wine Failed: Word Order, Mary’s Request, and Jesus’ Reply", "slug": "john-2-34-when-the-wine-failed-word-order-marys-request-and-jesus-reply", "excerpt": "The Cana exchange is textually stable in substance; the principal difference is a connective before Jesus’ reply, not a rival request from Mary.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-2-34-when-the-wine-failed-word-order-marys-request-and-jesus-reply/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. 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Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:29+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2131", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 1:3–4 — “Without Him Was Not Anything Made That Was Made”: Where Should the Sentence Break?", "slug": "john-1-34-without-him-was-not-anything-made-that-was-made-where-should-the-sentence-break", "excerpt": "The Greek words are substantially undisputed; the question is whether “what came into being” closes verse 3 or begins a sentence that runs into verse 4.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-1-34-without-him-was-not-anything-made-that-was-made-where-should-the-sentence-break/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:29+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2132", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 1:13 — “Which Were Born” or “Who Was Born”? 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Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:29+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2133", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 1:18 — “The Only Begotten Son” or “the Only Begotten God”?", "slug": "john-1-18-the-only-begotten-son-or-the-only-begotten-god", "excerpt": "John 1:18 contains a major christological variation between the church’s received “only begotten Son” and the critical “only begotten God.”", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-1-18-the-only-begotten-son-or-the-only-begotten-god/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:29+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2134", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "John 1:28 — Bethabara or Bethany beyond Jordan? Locating John’s Baptism", "slug": "john-1-28-bethabara-or-bethany-beyond-jordan-locating-johns-baptism", "excerpt": "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.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/john-1-28-bethabara-or-bethany-beyond-jordan-locating-johns-baptism/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the current SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:29+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2126", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 24:3 — “The Body of the Lord Jesus”: Do Both Titles Belong?", "slug": "luke-24-3-the-body-of-the-lord-jesus-do-both-titles-belong", "excerpt": "The received text and most current critical editions include “the Lord Jesus.” Westcott and Hort omitted both titles, creating an important example of a later critical reversal rather than a continuing modern omission.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-24-3-the-body-of-the-lord-jesus-do-both-titles-belong/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:28+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2127", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 24:6, 12 — “He Is Risen” and Peter at the Empty Tomb", "slug": "luke-24-6-12-he-is-risen-and-peter-at-the-empty-tomb", "excerpt": "The received text contains both “but is risen” and Peter’s run to the tomb. Westcott and Hort treated these among the Western non-interpolations, while current critical editions generally retain the words, sometimes with brackets or apparatus caution.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-24-6-12-he-is-risen-and-peter-at-the-empty-tomb/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:28+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2128", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 24:36, 40 — “Peace Be unto You” and the Displayed Hands and Feet", "slug": "luke-24-36-40-peace-be-unto-you-and-the-displayed-hands-and-feet", "excerpt": "The received text includes Jesus’ peace greeting and the act of displaying his hands and feet. These were questioned as Western non-interpolations but are retained by the principal current critical editions.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-24-36-40-peace-be-unto-you-and-the-displayed-hands-and-feet/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:28+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2129", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 24:42 — “A Piece of a Broiled Fish, and of an Honeycomb”", "slug": "luke-24-42-a-piece-of-a-broiled-fish-and-of-an-honeycomb", "excerpt": "The received text gives Jesus broiled fish and a piece of honeycomb. The critical text retains the fish but omits the honeycomb.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-24-42-a-piece-of-a-broiled-fish-and-of-an-honeycomb/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:28+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2122", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 23:34 — “Father, Forgive Them”: Is Christ’s Prayer from the Cross Authentic?", "slug": "luke-23-34-father-forgive-them-is-christs-prayer-from-the-cross-authentic", "excerpt": "The received text includes Jesus’ prayer for his executioners. Several important early witnesses omit it, while other early and broad streams retain it; modern critical editions have differed between brackets and inclusion.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-23-34-father-forgive-them-is-christs-prayer-from-the-cross-authentic/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:27+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2123", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 23:42 — “Lord, Remember Me” or “Jesus, Remember Me”?", "slug": "luke-23-42-lord-remember-me-or-jesus-remember-me", "excerpt": "The received text addresses the crucified Christ as “Lord.” The critical text has the vocative “Jesus” and no added “Lord,” with a further variation between coming “in” and coming “into” the kingdom.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-23-42-lord-remember-me-or-jesus-remember-me/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:27+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2124", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 23:43 — “Today Shalt Thou Be with Me in Paradise”: Can Punctuation Reverse the Promise?", "slug": "luke-23-43-today-shalt-thou-be-with-me-in-paradise-can-punctuation-reverse-the-promise", "excerpt": "The principal Greek words are stable; ancient manuscripts do not supply the modern comma. Normal Greek syntax and Jesus’ repeated “Amen, I say to you” formula attach “today” to being with him in paradise, not to the act of speaking.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-23-43-today-shalt-thou-be-with-me-in-paradise-can-punctuation-reverse-the-promise/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:27+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2125", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 23:45 — Was the Sun Darkened or Eclipsed? The Greek behind the Darkness", "slug": "luke-23-45-was-the-sun-darkened-or-eclipsed-the-greek-behind-the-darkness", "excerpt": "The received text says “the sun was darkened.” The critical text uses a participial form of ἐκλείπω, “the sun failing,” which can be translated “eclipsed” but need not describe an ordinary astronomical eclipse.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-23-45-was-the-sun-darkened-or-eclipsed-the-greek-behind-the-darkness/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:27+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2118", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 22:64 — Blindfolded, Struck on the Face, and Commanded to Prophesy", "slug": "luke-22-64-blindfolded-struck-on-the-face-and-commanded-to-prophesy", "excerpt": "The received text explicitly says the captors struck Jesus’ face before demanding that he identify the assailant. The critical text retains blindfolding, beating, and the taunt but omits the added face-striking clause within verse 64.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-22-64-blindfolded-struck-on-the-face-and-commanded-to-prophesy/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:26+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2119", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 22:68 — “Nor Let Me Go”: Has Christ’s Answer to the Council Been Shortened?", "slug": "luke-22-68-nor-let-me-go-has-christs-answer-to-the-council-been-shortened", "excerpt": "The received text says the council will neither answer Jesus nor release him. The critical text ends after “you will not answer,” while Tregelles and other witnesses support the release clause.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-22-68-nor-let-me-go-has-christs-answer-to-the-council-been-shortened/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:26+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2120", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 23:15 — “I Sent You to Him” or “He Sent Him Back to Us”?", "slug": "luke-23-15-i-sent-you-to-him-or-he-sent-him-back-to-us", "excerpt": "The received text has Pilate say, “I sent you to him.” The critical text says of Herod, “he sent him back to us,” matching the narrative statement that Herod returned Jesus to Pilate.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-23-15-i-sent-you-to-him-or-he-sent-him-back-to-us/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:26+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2121", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 23:17 — “Of Necessity He Must Release One unto Them at the Feast”", "slug": "luke-23-17-of-necessity-he-must-release-one-unto-them-at-the-feast", "excerpt": "The received text includes a whole sentence explaining Pilate’s festival obligation. The critical text omits the verse; parallel Gospels describe the custom in their own wording.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-23-17-of-necessity-he-must-release-one-unto-them-at-the-feast/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:26+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2114", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 22:43–44 I — The Manuscript Evidence for the Angel and the Bloody Sweat", "slug": "luke-22-43-44-the-manuscript-evidence-for-the-angel-and-the-bloody-sweat", "excerpt": "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.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-22-43-44-the-manuscript-evidence-for-the-angel-and-the-bloody-sweat/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:25+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2115", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 22:43–44 II — Justin, Irenaeus, Hippolytus, and the Early Patristic Witness", "slug": "luke-22-43-44-justin-irenaeus-hippolytus-and-the-early-patristic-witness", "excerpt": "Second- and early-third-century Christian writers know the bloody-sweat tradition and use it in arguments about Christ’s incarnation and passion. Their testimony predates the great fourth-century codices but must still be evaluated as citation, not as surviving Gospel manuscripts.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-22-43-44-justin-irenaeus-hippolytus-and-the-early-patristic-witness/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:25+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2116", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 22:43–44 III — Christ’s True Humanity and the Theological Pressure upon the Text", "slug": "luke-22-43-44-christs-true-humanity-and-the-theological-pressure-upon-the-text", "excerpt": "The passage became a christological battleground because it depicts angelic strengthening and intense bodily anguish. Both interpolation and omission have been explained as doctrinally motivated, so theology must illuminate possible transmission without dictating the text.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-22-43-44-christs-true-humanity-and-the-theological-pressure-upon-the-text/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:25+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2117", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 22:43–44 IV — Omission, Transposition, and the Probable History of Corruption", "slug": "luke-22-43-44-omission-transposition-and-the-probable-history-of-corruption", "excerpt": "The pattern of omission, critical marking, and relocation suggests an early disputed passage. The received position in Luke best explains the material’s language and reception, while its movement into Matthew reflects attempts to preserve words whose location had been questioned.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-22-43-44-omission-transposition-and-the-probable-history-of-corruption/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:25+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2110", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 19:45 — “Them That Sold Therein, and Them That Bought”: Has the Temple Cleansing Been Shortened?", "slug": "luke-19-45-them-that-sold-therein-and-them-that-bought-has-the-temple-cleansing-been-shortened", "excerpt": "The received text says Jesus expelled both sellers and buyers. The critical text mentions sellers only, while Matthew and Mark explicitly include both groups.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-19-45-them-that-sold-therein-and-them-that-bought-has-the-temple-cleansing-been-shortened/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:24+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2111", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 21:36 — “Accounted Worthy to Escape” or “Have Strength to Escape”?", "slug": "luke-21-36-accounted-worthy-to-escape-or-have-strength-to-escape", "excerpt": "The received text calls disciples to pray that they may be “accounted worthy.” The critical text uses a different verb, “have strength” or “prevail,” shifting from judicial estimation to divinely enabled endurance.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-21-36-accounted-worthy-to-escape-or-have-strength-to-escape/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:24+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2112", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 22:17–20 — Cup, Bread, and Cup: The Long and Short Forms of the Lord’s Supper", "slug": "luke-22-17-20-cup-bread-and-cup-the-long-and-short-forms-of-the-lords-supper", "excerpt": "The received and principal modern texts contain a first cup, the bread saying, and a second cup identified with the new covenant. Codex Bezae and a limited Western stream omit the latter part of verse 19 and all of verse 20.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-22-17-20-cup-bread-and-cup-the-long-and-short-forms-of-the-lords-supper/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:24+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2113", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 22:31 — “And the Lord Said, Simon, Simon”: Is the Speaker Explicitly Named?", "slug": "luke-22-31-and-the-lord-said-simon-simon-is-the-speaker-explicitly-named", "excerpt": "The received text introduces the warning with “And the Lord said.” The critical text begins directly, “Simon, Simon,” with Jesus remaining the obvious speaker from context.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-22-31-and-the-lord-said-simon-simon-is-the-speaker-explicitly-named/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:24+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2106", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 17:3, 9 — “Rebuke Him,” “Forgive Him,” and “I Trow Not”", "slug": "luke-17-3-9-rebuke-him-forgive-him-and-i-trow-not", "excerpt": "The received text specifies sin “against thee” and ends the servant question with “I think not.” The critical text omits both phrases; the two omissions are separate variation units.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-17-3-9-rebuke-him-forgive-him-and-i-trow-not/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:23+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2107", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 17:36 — “Two Men Shall Be in the Field”: Is the Entire Verse Authentic?", "slug": "luke-17-36-two-men-shall-be-in-the-field-is-the-entire-verse-authentic", "excerpt": "The received text includes the field pair as verse 36. The principal critical text omits the whole verse, while Matthew contains the same comparison in his eschatological discourse.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-17-36-two-men-shall-be-in-the-field-is-the-entire-verse-authentic/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:23+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2108", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 18:24 — “When Jesus Saw That He Was Very Sorrowful”: Does the Narrative Clause Belong?", "slug": "luke-18-24-when-jesus-saw-that-he-was-very-sorrowful-does-the-narrative-clause-belong", "excerpt": "The clause “when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful” is retained by the received text and by the Nestle-Aland tradition, but omitted in some other influential critical witnesses and editions.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-18-24-when-jesus-saw-that-he-was-very-sorrowful-does-the-narrative-clause-belong/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:23+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2109", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 18:28 — “We Have Left All” or “Our Own”? The Apostles’ Confession", "slug": "luke-18-28-we-have-left-all-or-our-own-the-apostles-confession", "excerpt": "The received text says the apostles left “all.” The critical text says they left “our own things,” emphasizing possessions belonging to them without using the absolute term.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-18-28-we-have-left-all-or-our-own-the-apostles-confession/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:23+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2102", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 12:31 — “Seek Ye the Kingdom of God”: Does “of God” Belong?", "slug": "luke-12-31-seek-ye-the-kingdom-of-god-does-of-god-belong", "excerpt": "The received text explicitly says “the kingdom of God” and adds “all” these things. The critical form reads “his kingdom” and “these things,” preserving the same referent through a pronoun.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-12-31-seek-ye-the-kingdom-of-god-does-of-god-belong/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:22+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2103", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 12:39 — “He Would Have Watched”: The Fuller Warning to the Householder", "slug": "luke-12-39-he-would-have-watched-the-fuller-warning-to-the-householder", "excerpt": "The received text explicitly says the householder “would have watched” and would not have allowed the break-in. Some critical forms omit the watching clause; others retain it, so modern editorial testimony is divided.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-12-39-he-would-have-watched-the-fuller-warning-to-the-householder/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:22+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2104", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 13:35 — “Till the Time Come”: Has the Prophetic Saying Been Shortened?", "slug": "luke-13-35-till-the-time-come-has-the-prophetic-saying-been-shortened", "excerpt": "The received text calls the house “desolate” and says they will not see Christ “until the time come when” they bless the coming one. Critical forms vary over both “desolate” and the temporal phrase.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-13-35-till-the-time-come-has-the-prophetic-saying-been-shortened/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:22+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2105", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 14:5 — Son or Donkey? The Sabbath Rescue Saying", "slug": "luke-14-5-son-or-donkey-the-sabbath-rescue-saying", "excerpt": "The received text pairs a donkey with an ox. The critical text pairs a son with an ox. The Greek words for “son” and “donkey” are short and could be confused, while each reading produces a different rhetorical scale.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-14-5-son-or-donkey-the-sabbath-rescue-saying/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:22+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2098", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 11:2 II — “Thy Will Be Done, as in Heaven, So in Earth”: Does the Petition Belong?", "slug": "luke-11-2-thy-will-be-done-as-in-heaven-so-in-earth-does-the-petition-belong", "excerpt": "The received text includes the petition for God’s will to be done on earth as in heaven. The critical text omits it from Luke while retaining the petition in Matthew.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-11-2-thy-will-be-done-as-in-heaven-so-in-earth-does-the-petition-belong/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:21+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2099", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 11:3 — Daily Bread “Day by Day”: The Verb and the Continuing Petition", "slug": "luke-11-3-daily-bread-day-by-day-the-verb-and-the-continuing-petition", "excerpt": "The principal received and critical texts agree on Luke’s present imperative “keep giving” and the phrase “day by day.” The main difficulty is the rare adjective translated “daily,” not a substantive TR–critical omission.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-11-3-daily-bread-day-by-day-the-verb-and-the-continuing-petition/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:21+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2100", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 11:4 — “But Deliver Us from Evil”: The Disputed End of Luke’s Lord’s Prayer", "slug": "luke-11-4-but-deliver-us-from-evil-the-disputed-end-of-lukes-lords-prayer", "excerpt": "The received text ends the prayer with “but deliver us from evil.” The critical text concludes after “lead us not into temptation,” while Matthew preserves the fuller antithetical petition.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-11-4-but-deliver-us-from-evil-the-disputed-end-of-lukes-lords-prayer/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:21+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2101", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 11:11 — Bread or a Stone, Fish or a Serpent: The Full Father-and-Son Comparison", "slug": "luke-11-11-bread-or-a-stone-fish-or-a-serpent-the-full-father-and-son-comparison", "excerpt": "The received text includes the bread-and-stone comparison before fish and serpent. The shorter critical form begins with a son asking for a fish, leaving the bread pair to Matthew’s parallel.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-11-11-bread-or-a-stone-fish-or-a-serpent-the-full-father-and-son-comparison/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:21+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2094", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 10:1, 17 — Seventy or Seventy-Two? Counting the Lord’s Other Disciples", "slug": "luke-10-1-17-seventy-or-seventy-two-counting-the-lords-other-disciples", "excerpt": "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.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-10-1-17-seventy-or-seventy-two-counting-the-lords-other-disciples/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:20+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2095", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 10:20–21 — Names Written in Heaven and Jesus Rejoicing in the Spirit", "slug": "luke-10-20-21-names-written-in-heaven-and-jesus-rejoicing-in-the-spirit", "excerpt": "Two adjacent variations are involved. The received text uses a simple past for names written and explicitly says Jesus rejoiced “in spirit”; the critical text uses a perfect-form inscription and says he rejoiced “in the Holy Spirit.”", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-10-20-21-names-written-in-heaven-and-jesus-rejoicing-in-the-spirit/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:20+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2096", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 10:41–42 — “One Thing Is Needful”: The Text of Christ’s Answer to Martha", "slug": "luke-10-41-42-one-thing-is-needful-the-text-of-christs-answer-to-martha", "excerpt": "The received text says simply, “one thing is needful.” A strongly supported critical form reads, “few things are needed—or one,” which may begin with a reference to the meal before reaching Mary’s choice.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-10-41-42-one-thing-is-needful-the-text-of-christs-answer-to-martha/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:20+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2097", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 11:2 I — “Our Father Which Art in Heaven”: The Opening of Luke’s Lord’s Prayer", "slug": "luke-11-2-our-father-which-art-in-heaven-the-opening-of-lukes-lords-prayer", "excerpt": "The received text opens “Our Father which art in heaven.” The critical text begins simply “Father,” making Luke’s form shorter than Matthew’s.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-11-2-our-father-which-art-in-heaven-the-opening-of-lukes-lords-prayer/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:20+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2090", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 9:23 — “Take Up His Cross Daily”: Does “Daily” Belong?", "slug": "luke-9-23-take-up-his-cross-daily-does-daily-belong", "excerpt": "Scrivener’s received text and the principal critical text both include “daily.” The reconstructed Byzantine majority commonly omits it, so this is not a simple received-versus-critical contest.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-9-23-take-up-his-cross-daily-does-daily-belong/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:19+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2091", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 9:35 — Beloved Son or Chosen Son? The Voice from the Cloud", "slug": "luke-9-35-beloved-son-or-chosen-son-the-voice-from-the-cloud", "excerpt": "The received text calls Jesus the Father’s “beloved” Son. The critical text reads “my Son, the Chosen One,” a form with strong early support and a possible echo of Isaiah’s servant.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-9-35-beloved-son-or-chosen-son-the-voice-from-the-cloud/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:19+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2092", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 9:54 — “Even as Elias Did”: Is the Appeal to Elijah Authentic?", "slug": "luke-9-54-even-as-elias-did-is-the-appeal-to-elijah-authentic", "excerpt": "The received text makes James and John appeal explicitly to Elijah. The critical text preserves their request for heavenly fire but omits “even as Elijah did.”", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-9-54-even-as-elias-did-is-the-appeal-to-elijah-authentic/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:19+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2093", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 9:55–56 — “The Son of Man Is Not Come to Destroy Men’s Lives, but to Save Them”", "slug": "luke-9-55-56-the-son-of-man-is-not-come-to-destroy-mens-lives-but-to-save-them", "excerpt": "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.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-9-55-56-the-son-of-man-is-not-come-to-destroy-mens-lives-but-to-save-them/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:19+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2086", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 7:19 — Did John Send Two Disciples, or Send Them “unto Jesus”?", "slug": "luke-7-19-did-john-send-two-disciples-or-send-them-unto-jesus", "excerpt": "The received text says John sent two disciples “to Jesus.” The critical text reads “to the Lord.” A second variation distinguishes “another” from “a different one” in their question.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-7-19-did-john-send-two-disciples-or-send-them-unto-jesus/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:18+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2087", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 7:28 — “There Is Not a Greater Prophet than John”: Does “Prophet” Belong?", "slug": "luke-7-28-there-is-not-a-greater-prophet-than-john-does-prophet-belong", "excerpt": "The received text calls John the Baptist the greatest “prophet” born of women. The shorter critical form omits both “prophet” and “the Baptist,” reading simply that no one is greater than John.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-7-28-there-is-not-a-greater-prophet-than-john-does-prophet-belong/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:18+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2088", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 8:43 — “Had Spent All Her Living upon Physicians”: Is the Clause Authentic?", "slug": "luke-8-43-had-spent-all-her-living-upon-physicians-is-the-clause-authentic", "excerpt": "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.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-8-43-had-spent-all-her-living-upon-physicians-is-the-clause-authentic/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:18+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2089", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 8:45 — “Peter and They That Were with Him”: Who Answered Jesus?", "slug": "luke-8-45-peter-and-they-that-were-with-him-who-answered-jesus", "excerpt": "The received text names Peter together with his companions and includes their full objection, “and sayest thou, Who touched me?” The shorter form names Peter alone and ends after the crowd presses Jesus.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-8-45-peter-and-they-that-were-with-him-who-answered-jesus/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:18+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2082", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 6:4 — David Ate and Gave: Has the Parallel Been Assimilated or Shortened?", "slug": "luke-6-4-david-ate-and-gave-has-the-parallel-been-assimilated-or-shortened", "excerpt": "The variation concerns the grammatical shape of David’s actions. The received text uses finite verbs and an added conjunction—he took and ate, and also gave—where the critical form makes “taking” subordinate before “he ate and gave.”", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-6-4-david-ate-and-gave-has-the-parallel-been-assimilated-or-shortened/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:17+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2083", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 6:5 — The Bezan Sabbath Story: How an Ancient Expansion Entered the Record", "slug": "luke-6-5-the-bezan-sabbath-story-how-an-ancient-expansion-entered-the-record", "excerpt": "The received and critical texts move directly to Christ’s lordship over the Sabbath. Codex Bezae adds a separate story about a man working on the Sabbath, blessing him if he understands his act and condemning him if he does not.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-6-5-the-bezan-sabbath-story-how-an-ancient-expansion-entered-the-record/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:17+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2084", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 6:10 — “Restored Whole as the Other”: Does the Comparison Belong?", "slug": "luke-6-10-restored-whole-as-the-other-does-the-comparison-belong", "excerpt": "The received text says the withered hand was restored “whole as the other.” Critical editions end with “his hand was restored,” while intermediate witnesses preserve part of the fuller comparison.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-6-10-restored-whole-as-the-other-does-the-comparison-belong/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:17+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2085", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 6:35 — “Hoping for Nothing Again”: What Did Christ Command in Lending?", "slug": "luke-6-35-hoping-for-nothing-again-what-did-christ-command-in-lending", "excerpt": "The principal Greek texts agree on the verb ἀπελπίζοντες. The dispute is lexical: it has traditionally been rendered “hoping for nothing again,” while some argue for “never despairing” or related senses.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-6-35-hoping-for-nothing-again-what-did-christ-command-in-lending/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:17+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2078", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 4:44 — Galilee or Judea? Locating the Synagogues of Christ’s Preaching", "slug": "luke-4-44-galilee-or-judea-locating-the-synagogues-of-christs-preaching", "excerpt": "The received text locates the preaching in Galilee. The critical text reads Judea, a term that may denote the wider Jewish land but sits unexpectedly before Luke narrates the Galilean ministry in detail.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-4-44-galilee-or-judea-locating-the-synagogues-of-christs-preaching/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:16+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2079", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 5:17 — Was the Power of the Lord Present “to Heal Them” or “to Heal Him”?", "slug": "luke-5-17-was-the-power-of-the-lord-present-to-heal-them-or-to-heal-him", "excerpt": "The received text uses a plural pronoun, “to heal them.” The critical form uses a singular, “to heal him,” pointing ahead to the paralytic who is about to be lowered through the roof.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-5-17-was-the-power-of-the-lord-present-to-heal-them-or-to-heal-him/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:16+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2080", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 5:38–39 — New Wine, New Bottles, and the Entire Disputed Final Saying", "slug": "luke-5-38-39-new-wine-new-bottles-and-the-entire-disputed-final-saying", "excerpt": "The received text includes “and both are preserved,” “straightway,” and the full closing judgment that the old is better. Critical editions vary across these smaller units but retain the distinctive saying about preferring old wine.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-5-38-39-new-wine-new-bottles-and-the-entire-disputed-final-saying/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:16+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2081", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 6:1 — “The Second Sabbath after the First”: Meaningful Date or Scribal Puzzle?", "slug": "luke-6-1-the-second-sabbath-after-the-first-meaningful-date-or-scribal-puzzle", "excerpt": "The received text calls the day the “second-first Sabbath,” an otherwise unattested Greek expression. Critical editions omit the adjective, while interpreters have proposed several explanations for the received calendar notation.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-6-1-the-second-sabbath-after-the-first-meaningful-date-or-scribal-puzzle/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:16+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2074", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 3:33 — Admin, Aram, and Amminadab: The Genealogical Sequence under Review", "slug": "luke-3-33-admin-aram-and-amminadab-the-genealogical-sequence-under-review", "excerpt": "The received genealogy moves from Amminadab to Aram. The critical text prints the difficult sequence “Admin, Arni,” supported by early witnesses but unattested in the Old Testament genealogies in that form.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-3-33-admin-aram-and-amminadab-the-genealogical-sequence-under-review/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:15+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2075", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 4:4 — “But by Every Word of God”: The Omitted Answer to the Tempter", "slug": "luke-4-4-but-by-every-word-of-god-the-omitted-answer-to-the-tempter", "excerpt": "The received text gives the fuller Deuteronomic answer, “but by every word of God.” The critical text ends after “man shall not live by bread alone,” while Matthew preserves the longer clause.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-4-4-but-by-every-word-of-god-the-omitted-answer-to-the-tempter/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:15+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2076", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 4:8 — “Get Thee behind Me, Satan”: Does Christ’s Rebuke Belong?", "slug": "luke-4-8-get-thee-behind-me-satan-does-christs-rebuke-belong", "excerpt": "The received text begins Jesus’ reply with “Get thee behind me, Satan.” The critical text moves directly to “It is written,” leaving the command to depart in Matthew’s account.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-4-8-get-thee-behind-me-satan-does-christs-rebuke-belong/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:15+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2077", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 4:18 — “To Heal the Brokenhearted”: The Full Nazareth Scripture Reading", "slug": "luke-4-18-to-heal-the-brokenhearted-the-full-nazareth-scripture-reading", "excerpt": "The received Nazareth reading includes “to heal the brokenhearted.” The critical text omits that clause while retaining good news to the poor, liberty to captives, sight to the blind, and freedom for the bruised.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-4-18-to-heal-the-brokenhearted-the-full-nazareth-scripture-reading/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:15+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2070", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 2:33 — Joseph or “His Father”? The Text and Christ’s Virgin Birth", "slug": "luke-2-33-joseph-or-his-father-the-text-and-christs-virgin-birth", "excerpt": "The received text names Joseph; the critical text calls him “his father.” The latter can describe Joseph’s legal and social role without denying Luke’s explicit account of the virgin conception.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-2-33-joseph-or-his-father-the-text-and-christs-virgin-birth/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:14+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2071", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 2:40 — “Waxed Strong in Spirit”: Has the Description of Christ’s Childhood Been Shortened?", "slug": "luke-2-40-waxed-strong-in-spirit-has-the-description-of-christs-childhood-been-shortened", "excerpt": "The received text says that the child Jesus grew and “waxed strong in spirit.” The critical text retains his growth, strengthening, wisdom, and divine grace but omits the explicit phrase “in spirit.”", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-2-40-waxed-strong-in-spirit-has-the-description-of-christs-childhood-been-shortened/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:14+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2072", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 2:43 — Joseph and His Mother or His Parents?", "slug": "luke-2-43-joseph-and-his-mother-or-his-parents", "excerpt": "The received text names “Joseph and his mother.” The critical text uses the ordinary family description “his parents,” a title Luke can employ without denying the virgin conception.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-2-43-joseph-and-his-mother-or-his-parents/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:14+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2073", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 3:22 — “Thou Art My Beloved Son” or “This Day Have I Begotten Thee”?", "slug": "luke-3-22-thou-art-my-beloved-son-or-this-day-have-i-begotten-thee", "excerpt": "The received and principal critical texts agree on the heavenly voice. An ancient Western reading instead quotes Psalm 2:7, “Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.”", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-3-22-thou-art-my-beloved-son-or-this-day-have-i-begotten-thee/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:14+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2066", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 1:70 — “His Holy Prophets, Which Have Been since the World Began”", "slug": "luke-1-70-his-holy-prophets-which-have-been-since-the-world-began", "excerpt": "The received text includes a second article before “from the age,” giving a slightly fuller description of the holy prophets. The critical text omits that article, with almost no effect on English sense.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-1-70-his-holy-prophets-which-have-been-since-the-world-began/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:13+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2067", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 2:11 — “Christ the Lord”: What Title Did the Angel Announce?", "slug": "luke-2-11-christ-the-lord-what-title-did-the-angel-announce", "excerpt": "The Textus Receptus and the principal critical editions agree that the newborn Saviour is “Christ the Lord.” Secondary rearrangements do not displace the established title.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-2-11-christ-the-lord-what-title-did-the-angel-announce/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:13+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2068", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 2:14 — “Good Will toward Men” or “among Men of Good Will”?", "slug": "luke-2-14-good-will-toward-men-or-among-men-of-good-will", "excerpt": "A single final sigma changes the last word from nominative “good will” to genitive “of good will.” The received text announces peace and good will toward men; the critical text speaks of peace among people of God’s favor.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-2-14-good-will-toward-men-or-among-men-of-good-will/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:13+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2069", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 2:22 — Her Purification or Their Purification? The Pronoun and the Law of Moses", "slug": "luke-2-22-her-purification-or-their-purification-the-pronoun-and-the-law-of-moses", "excerpt": "The received text has the feminine singular “her purification,” matching Leviticus 12 and the Authorized Version. The critical text reads “their purification,” a plural whose reference has prompted several explanations.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-2-22-her-purification-or-their-purification-the-pronoun-and-the-law-of-moses/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:13+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2061", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 1:28 — “Blessed Art Thou among Women”: Does Gabriel’s Full Greeting Belong?", "slug": "luke-1-28-blessed-art-thou-among-women-does-gabriels-full-greeting-belong", "excerpt": "Gabriel’s greeting is longer in the received text. The critical text omits both “the angel” and “blessed art thou among women,” usually treating the blessing as assimilation to Elisabeth’s words in verse 42.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-1-28-blessed-art-thou-among-women-does-gabriels-full-greeting-belong/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:12+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2062", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 1:35 — “That Holy Thing Which Shall Be Born of Thee”: The Text of the Virgin Conception", "slug": "luke-1-35-that-holy-thing-which-shall-be-born-of-thee-the-text-of-the-virgin-conception", "excerpt": "The principal received and critical Greek texts agree at the heart of Luke 1:35. The apparent phrase “of thee” belongs chiefly to English syntax and a secondary Greek expansion, not to a modern omission from the Textus Receptus.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-1-35-that-holy-thing-which-shall-be-born-of-thee-the-text-of-the-virgin-conception/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:12+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2063", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 1:37 — “With God Nothing Shall Be Impossible”: The Preposition and the Promise", "slug": "luke-1-37-with-god-nothing-shall-be-impossible-the-preposition-and-the-promise", "excerpt": "The received and critical forms use the same preposition with different cases. The received dative yields “with God”; the critical genitive emphasizes that no word from God will fail.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-1-37-with-god-nothing-shall-be-impossible-the-preposition-and-the-promise/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:12+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2064", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 1:46 — Mary or Elisabeth? Who Spoke the Magnificat?", "slug": "luke-1-46-mary-or-elisabeth-who-spoke-the-magnificat", "excerpt": "Every known Greek manuscript names Mary as the speaker of the Magnificat. “Elisabeth” is an Old Latin minority reading and a useful warning against turning every ancient variant into a balanced contest.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-1-46-mary-or-elisabeth-who-spoke-the-magnificat/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:12+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2065", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Luke 1:68 — “The Lord God of Israel”: The Opening of Zacharias’s Prophecy", "slug": "luke-1-68-the-lord-god-of-israel-the-opening-of-zachariass-prophecy", "excerpt": "The principal Greek editions agree on the opening of Zacharias’s prophecy. Minor variations do not remove either “Lord” or “God of Israel” from the established text.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/luke-1-68-the-lord-god-of-israel-the-opening-of-zachariass-prophecy/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT text and apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:12+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2057", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 16:8–9 — “For They Were Afraid”: Does the Transition Require a Lost Ending?", "slug": "mark-16-8-9-for-they-were-afraid-does-the-transition-require-a-lost-ending", "excerpt": "Verse 8 ends with the women’s fear and the particle “for”; verse 9 begins a new resurrection paragraph with Jesus as the understood subject. The transition is abrupt but intelligible.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-16-8-9-for-they-were-afraid-does-the-transition-require-a-lost-ending/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:11+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2058", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 16:9–14 — Mary Magdalene, the Appearances, and the Unbelief of the Eleven", "slug": "mark-16-9-14-mary-magdalene-the-appearances-and-the-unbelief-of-the-eleven", "excerpt": "The first half of the ending presents three reports met by unbelief: Mary Magdalene, two walking disciples, and finally Christ’s appearance to the Eleven.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-16-9-14-mary-magdalene-the-appearances-and-the-unbelief-of-the-eleven/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:11+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2059", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 16:15–18 — The Great Commission, Baptism, Belief, and the Promised Signs", "slug": "mark-16-15-18-the-great-commission-baptism-belief-and-the-promised-signs", "excerpt": "The commission joins worldwide preaching, belief, baptism, and apostolic signs. Its warnings must be read grammatically and canonically, not turned into mechanical baptismal salvation or ritual snake handling.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-16-15-18-the-great-commission-baptism-belief-and-the-promised-signs/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:11+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2060", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 16:19–20 — The Ascension, the Apostolic Preaching, and the Closing “Amen”", "slug": "mark-16-19-20-the-ascension-the-apostolic-preaching-and-the-closing-amen", "excerpt": "Mark closes with the ascended Lord enthroned, the disciples preaching everywhere, and the Lord confirming the word. The received text ends with “Amen”; many critical witnesses omit the final seal.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-16-19-20-the-ascension-the-apostolic-preaching-and-the-closing-amen/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:11+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2053", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 16:9–20 III — Lectionaries, Eusebian Sections, and Ecclesiastical Reception", "slug": "mark-16-9-20-lectionaries-eusebian-sections-and-ecclesiastical-reception", "excerpt": "Lectionaries read portions of the ending at Easter and Ascension, while early Eusebian section systems often stop at verse 8. These are different kinds of evidence and should not be forced into one verdict.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-16-9-20-lectionaries-eusebian-sections-and-ecclesiastical-reception/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Burgon’s lectionary argument and the absence of standard Eusebian sections after Mark 16:8 are treated as distinct evidence. His liturgical-endpoint account is explicitly classified as hypothesis. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:10+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2054", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 16:9–20 IV — The So-Called Shorter Ending: Rival Conclusion or Secondary Summary?", "slug": "mark-16-9-20-the-so-called-shorter-ending-rival-conclusion-or-secondary-summary", "excerpt": "A compact “shorter ending” says the women reported to Peter and that Jesus sent the proclamation from east to west. Most Greek witnesses that contain it also continue with verses 9–20.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-16-9-20-the-so-called-shorter-ending-rival-conclusion-or-secondary-summary/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:10+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2055", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 16:9–20 V — The Freer Logion: Why One Expansion Does Not Discredit the Received Ending", "slug": "mark-16-9-20-the-freer-logion-why-one-expansion-does-not-discredit-the-received-ending", "excerpt": "Codex Washingtonianus inserts a unique dialogue after verse 14, often called the Freer Logion. The expansion is secondary evidence within a manuscript that otherwise transmits the longer ending.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-16-9-20-the-freer-logion-why-one-expansion-does-not-discredit-the-received-ending/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:10+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2056", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 16:9–20 VI — Vocabulary and Style: Is the Long Ending Really Non-Markan?", "slug": "mark-16-9-20-vocabulary-and-style-is-the-long-ending-really-non-markan", "excerpt": "Critics identify several words and constructions in verses 9–20 not used elsewhere by Mark. Burgon counters that a short resurrection summary brings new subject matter and is too small a sample for mechanical authorship tests.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-16-9-20-vocabulary-and-style-is-the-long-ending-really-non-markan/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:10+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2049", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 15:39 — What Did the Centurion See When He Confessed the Son of God?", "slug": "mark-15-39-what-did-the-centurion-see-when-he-confessed-the-son-of-god", "excerpt": "The received text says the centurion saw how Jesus cried out and expired. The critical form omits the cry and says he saw how Jesus breathed his last.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-15-39-what-did-the-centurion-see-when-he-confessed-the-son-of-god/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:09+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2050", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 16:1 — When the Sabbath Was Past: The Women, the Spices, and the Opening of the Resurrection Account", "slug": "mark-16-1-when-the-sabbath-was-past-the-women-the-spices-and-the-opening-of-the-resurrection-account", "excerpt": "The received and principal critical texts agree on the passed Sabbath, the three women, and their purchase of spices. A narrow Western stream simplifies the names or timing.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-16-1-when-the-sabbath-was-past-the-women-the-spices-and-the-opening-of-the-resurrection-account/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:09+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2051", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 16:9–20 I — The Manuscript Case for the Last Twelve Verses", "slug": "mark-16-9-20-the-manuscript-case-for-the-last-twelve-verses", "excerpt": "The last twelve verses are absent from a small but important group headed by Vaticanus and Sinaiticus, yet present in the overwhelming majority of Greek copies and in major early codices from other textual streams.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-16-9-20-the-manuscript-case-for-the-last-twelve-verses/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Principal Greek ending forms, named major codices, and Burgon’s 1871 manuscript claim checked against the cited sources. Current exhaustive numerical cataloging remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:09+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2052", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 16:9–20 II — The Fathers and Ancient Versions before the Great Uncials", "slug": "mark-16-9-20-the-fathers-and-ancient-versions-before-the-great-uncials", "excerpt": "Irenaeus quotes Mark 16:19 in the second century, and the ending circulated widely in early versions. Possible allusions in Papias and Justin must be distinguished from direct citation.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-16-9-20-the-fathers-and-ancient-versions-before-the-great-uncials/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Irenaeus is treated as direct citation; Papias and Justin are labeled possible allusions. Versional evidence is summarized by tradition rather than converted into an unsupported manuscript count. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:09+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2045", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 14:22–24 — “Take, Eat” and “My Blood of the New Testament”: The Supper Text", "slug": "mark-14-22-24-take-eat-and-my-blood-of-the-new-testament-the-supper-text", "excerpt": "The received Supper text includes “eat” after “take” and calls the cup Christ’s blood of the new covenant/testament. The critical form omits both “eat” and “new.”", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-14-22-24-take-eat-and-my-blood-of-the-new-testament-the-supper-text/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:08+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2046", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 14:30, 68, 72 — Once or Twice? The Cock-Crowing Text and Peter’s Denial", "slug": "mark-14-30-68-72-once-or-twice-the-cock-crowing-text-and-peters-denial", "excerpt": "Mark’s received sequence predicts two crowings, records the first after Peter’s initial denial, and marks the second after the third. Some witnesses simplify the account to a single crowing in agreement with the other Gospels.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-14-30-68-72-once-or-twice-the-cock-crowing-text-and-peters-denial/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "The three linked variation units at Mark 14:30, 68, and 72 were checked as one narrative system against Scrivener and principal critical apparatus notes; full witness collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:08+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2047", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 15:28 — “He Was Numbered with the Transgressors”: Is the Fulfilled Prophecy Authentic?", "slug": "mark-15-28-he-was-numbered-with-the-transgressors-is-the-fulfilled-prophecy-authentic", "excerpt": "The received text explicitly applies Isaiah 53:12 to Jesus crucified between two thieves. The critical text omits the whole verse as a likely import from Luke 22:37.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-15-28-he-was-numbered-with-the-transgressors-is-the-fulfilled-prophecy-authentic/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:08+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2048", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 15:34 — Eloi, Eli, or Another Form? The Cry of Dereliction in Greek Transmission", "slug": "mark-15-34-eloi-eli-or-another-form-the-cry-of-dereliction-in-greek-transmission", "excerpt": "The Aramaic cry appears in many spellings: Eloi or Eli, lama or lema, and several forms of sabachthani. Mark’s Greek interpretation remains stable enough to govern the meaning.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-15-34-eloi-eli-or-another-form-the-cry-of-dereliction-in-greek-transmission/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:08+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2041", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 11:26 — “Neither Will Your Father Which Is in Heaven Forgive Your Trespasses”", "slug": "mark-11-26-neither-will-your-father-which-is-in-heaven-forgive-your-trespasses", "excerpt": "The received text balances the command to forgive with a negative warning. The critical text omits the entire verse, usually treating it as assimilation to Matthew 6:15.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-11-26-neither-will-your-father-which-is-in-heaven-forgive-your-trespasses/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:07+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2042", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 12:23, 33 — “When They Shall Rise” and Loving God above Burnt Offerings", "slug": "mark-12-23-33-when-they-shall-rise-and-loving-god-above-burnt-offerings", "excerpt": "Two small clauses are disputed in the chapter: “when they shall rise” after “in the resurrection,” and “with all the soul” in the scribe’s summary of the greatest commandment.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-12-23-33-when-they-shall-rise-and-loving-god-above-burnt-offerings/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:07+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2043", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 13:8 — Famines, Troubles, and Sorrows: The Full Beginning of the End-Time Warning", "slug": "mark-13-8-famines-troubles-and-sorrows-the-full-beginning-of-the-end-time-warning", "excerpt": "The received warning lists earthquakes, famines, and troubles. The critical text omits “and troubles,” while other witnesses expand the catalogue further with pestilences.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-13-8-famines-troubles-and-sorrows-the-full-beginning-of-the-end-time-warning/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:07+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2044", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 13:33 — “Watch and Pray”: Has Prayer Been Removed from the Command?", "slug": "mark-13-33-watch-and-pray-has-prayer-been-removed-from-the-command", "excerpt": "The received command has three movements: take heed, stay awake, and pray. The critical text omits prayer, although Mark 14:38 soon joins watching and praying in Gethsemane.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-13-33-watch-and-pray-has-prayer-been-removed-from-the-command/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:07+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2037", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 10:21 — “Take Up the Cross”: Has the Demand of Discipleship Been Omitted?", "slug": "mark-10-21-take-up-the-cross-has-the-demand-of-discipleship-been-omitted", "excerpt": "The received command tells the rich man to come, take up the cross, and follow Jesus. The critical text omits the cross clause, moving directly from giving to the poor to following.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-10-21-take-up-the-cross-has-the-demand-of-discipleship-been-omitted/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:06+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2038", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 10:24 — “For Them That Trust in Riches”: Qualification or Authentic Saying?", "slug": "mark-10-24-for-them-that-trust-in-riches-qualification-or-authentic-saying", "excerpt": "The received text locates the danger in trusting riches. The critical form says simply that entering God’s kingdom is hard, a more general statement that explains the disciples’ astonishment differently.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-10-24-for-them-that-trust-in-riches-qualification-or-authentic-saying/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:06+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2039", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 11:22 — “Have Faith in God”: Objective Genitive, Subjective Genitive, or a False Dilemma?", "slug": "mark-11-22-have-faith-in-god-objective-genitive-subjective-genitive-or-a-false-dilemma", "excerpt": "The principal Greek text is stable: “have faith of God.” The issue is how the genitive functions. In context it is an objective genitive, idiomatically rendered “have faith in God.”", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-11-22-have-faith-in-god-objective-genitive-subjective-genitive-or-a-false-dilemma/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:06+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2040", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 11:24 — “Believe That Ye Receive” or “Believe That Ye Received”?", "slug": "mark-11-24-believe-that-ye-receive-or-believe-that-ye-received", "excerpt": "The received present tense says “believe that ye receive.” The critical aorist says “believe that ye received,” a Semitic way of expressing the certainty of a future answer.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-11-24-believe-that-ye-receive-or-believe-that-ye-received/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:06+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2034", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 9:44–46 — “Their Worm Dieth Not” and “the Fire That Never Shall Be Quenched”", "slug": "mark-9-44-46-their-worm-dieth-not-and-the-fire-that-never-shall-be-quenched", "excerpt": "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.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-9-44-46-their-worm-dieth-not-and-the-fire-that-never-shall-be-quenched/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:05+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2035", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 9:49 — “Every Sacrifice Shall Be Salted with Salt”: The Disputed Second Clause", "slug": "mark-9-49-every-sacrifice-shall-be-salted-with-salt-the-disputed-second-clause", "excerpt": "Three forms circulate: salting everyone with fire, salting every sacrifice with salt, or the received combination of both. The second clause links Jesus’ saying to Leviticus 2:13.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-9-49-every-sacrifice-shall-be-salted-with-salt-the-disputed-second-clause/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:05+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2036", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 10:7 — “And Cleave to His Wife”: The Full Marriage Citation", "slug": "mark-10-7-and-cleave-to-his-wife-the-full-marriage-citation", "excerpt": "The received quotation includes leaving parents and cleaving to a wife before the two become one flesh. Some witnesses omit the cleaving clause, and modern editions may bracket it.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-10-7-and-cleave-to-his-wife-the-full-marriage-citation/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:05+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2030", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 9:23 — “If Thou Canst Believe” or “If Thou Canst”? Who Is Being Challenged?", "slug": "mark-9-23-if-thou-canst-believe-or-if-thou-canst-who-is-being-challenged", "excerpt": "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.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-9-23-if-thou-canst-believe-or-if-thou-canst-who-is-being-challenged/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:04+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2031", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 9:24 — “Lord, I Believe” and “with Tears”: The Full Cry of the Child’s Father", "slug": "mark-9-24-lord-i-believe-and-with-tears-the-full-cry-of-the-childs-father", "excerpt": "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.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-9-24-lord-i-believe-and-with-tears-the-full-cry-of-the-childs-father/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:04+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2032", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 9:29 — “Prayer and Fasting”: What Did Christ Prescribe?", "slug": "mark-9-29-prayer-and-fasting-what-did-christ-prescribe", "excerpt": "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.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-9-29-prayer-and-fasting-what-did-christ-prescribe/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:04+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2033", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 9:42 — “These Little Ones Which Believe in Me”: Do the Final Words Belong?", "slug": "mark-9-42-these-little-ones-which-believe-in-me-do-the-final-words-belong", "excerpt": "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.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-9-42-these-little-ones-which-believe-in-me-do-the-final-words-belong/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:04+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2025", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 7:19 — “Purging All Meats”: Grammar, Punctuation, and a Modern Interpretive Claim", "slug": "mark-7-19-purging-all-meats-grammar-punctuation-and-a-modern-interpretive-claim", "excerpt": "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.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-7-19-purging-all-meats-grammar-punctuation-and-a-modern-interpretive-claim/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:03+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2026", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 7:24 — The Borders of Tyre and Sidon: Does “Sidon” Belong?", "slug": "mark-7-24-the-borders-of-tyre-and-sidon-does-sidon-belong", "excerpt": "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.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-7-24-the-borders-of-tyre-and-sidon-does-sidon-belong/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:03+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2027", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 8:15 — The Leaven of Herod or the Leaven of the Herodians?", "slug": "mark-8-15-the-leaven-of-herod-or-the-leaven-of-the-herodians", "excerpt": "The main received and critical texts warn against the leaven of Herod. Some witnesses substitute “the Herodians,” probably recalling the political group named elsewhere in Mark.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-8-15-the-leaven-of-herod-or-the-leaven-of-the-herodians/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:03+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2028", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 8:26 — “Neither Go into the Town, nor Tell It to Any in the Town”", "slug": "mark-8-26-neither-go-into-the-town-nor-tell-it-to-any-in-the-town", "excerpt": "After healing the blind man, the received text gives two prohibitions: do not enter the village and do not report the healing there. The critical text keeps only the first command in a compressed form.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-8-26-neither-go-into-the-town-nor-tell-it-to-any-in-the-town/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:03+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2021", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 6:33 — “Outwent Them” or “Came Together unto Him”? The Crowd’s Movement", "slug": "mark-6-33-outwent-them-or-came-together-unto-him-the-crowds-movement", "excerpt": "The received narrative says the crowd both outran the boat and gathered to Jesus. The shorter critical form keeps the outstripping but omits the final gathering clause.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-6-33-outwent-them-or-came-together-unto-him-the-crowds-movement/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:02+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2022", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 7:4 — Washings of Cups, Pots, Brasen Vessels, and Tables", "slug": "mark-7-4-washings-of-cups-pots-brasen-vessels-and-tables", "excerpt": "The list of inherited washings ends with “tables” or “couches” in the received text. Some witnesses omit the item because washing dining couches sounded incongruous.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-7-4-washings-of-cups-pots-brasen-vessels-and-tables/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:02+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2023", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 7:8 — “Laying Aside the Commandment of God”: Has the Rebuke Been Shortened?", "slug": "mark-7-8-laying-aside-the-commandment-of-god-has-the-rebuke-been-shortened", "excerpt": "Both forms accuse the Pharisees of abandoning God’s command for human tradition. The received text then repeats the vessel washings and says they do many similar things; the critical text omits that illustrative close.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-7-8-laying-aside-the-commandment-of-god-has-the-rebuke-been-shortened/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:02+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2024", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 7:16 — “If Any Man Have Ears to Hear, Let Him Hear”", "slug": "mark-7-16-if-any-man-have-ears-to-hear-let-him-hear", "excerpt": "The received text places Jesus’ familiar hearing summons between his public parable and its private explanation. The critical text omits the whole verse as an apparent echo of Mark 4.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-7-16-if-any-man-have-ears-to-hear-let-him-hear/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:02+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2017", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 6:3 — “Is Not This the Carpenter?” A Reading Once Thought Scandalous", "slug": "mark-6-3-is-not-this-the-carpenter-a-reading-once-thought-scandalous", "excerpt": "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.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-6-3-is-not-this-the-carpenter-a-reading-once-thought-scandalous/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:01+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2018", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 6:11 — “More Tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha”: The Omitted Judgment Saying", "slug": "mark-6-11-more-tolerable-for-sodom-and-gomorrha-the-omitted-judgment-saying", "excerpt": "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.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-6-11-more-tolerable-for-sodom-and-gomorrha-the-omitted-judgment-saying/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:01+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2019", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 6:20 — Did Herod “Do Many Things” or Remain “Greatly Perplexed”?", "slug": "mark-6-20-did-herod-do-many-things-or-remain-greatly-perplexed", "excerpt": "Herod either acted on many of John’s words or was greatly perplexed by them. The difference between the two Greek verbs creates distinct portraits, though both end with his willing attention.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-6-20-did-herod-do-many-things-or-remain-greatly-perplexed/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:01+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2013", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 4:40 — “How Is It That Ye Have No Faith?” The Full Rebuke after the Storm", "slug": "mark-4-40-how-is-it-that-ye-have-no-faith-the-full-rebuke-after-the-storm", "excerpt": "After stilling the storm, Jesus asks either why the disciples have no faith or whether they still have no faith. The difference is one small adverb with a real effect on the rebuke’s timing.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-4-40-how-is-it-that-ye-have-no-faith-the-full-rebuke-after-the-storm/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:00+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2014", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 5:1 — Gadarenes, Gerasenes, or Gergesenes? Locating the Demoniac’s Country", "slug": "mark-5-1-gadarenes-gerasenes-or-gergesenes-locating-the-demoniacs-country", "excerpt": "Three regional names compete at the opening of the demoniac account. The received “Gadarenes” can identify a district associated with Gadara rather than claim that the city stood on the waterline.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-5-1-gadarenes-gerasenes-or-gergesenes-locating-the-demoniacs-country/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:00+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2015", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 5:36 — “As Soon as Jesus Heard” or “Ignoring What Was Spoken”?", "slug": "mark-5-36-as-soon-as-jesus-heard-or-ignoring-what-was-spoken", "excerpt": "The received verb says Jesus heard the report of the girl’s death. The critical verb may mean overheard it or disregarded it. The narrative consequence is the same command against fear.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-5-36-as-soon-as-jesus-heard-or-ignoring-what-was-spoken/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:00+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2016", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 5:41 — Talitha Cumi: The Aramaic Command and Its Greek Transmission", "slug": "mark-5-41-talitha-cumi-the-aramaic-command-and-its-greek-transmission", "excerpt": "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.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-5-41-talitha-cumi-the-aramaic-command-and-its-greek-transmission/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:54:00+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2008", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 2:22 — New Wine and New Bottles: Which Clauses Complete the Parable?", "slug": "mark-2-22-new-wine-and-new-bottles-which-clauses-complete-the-parable", "excerpt": "Mark’s wineskin saying has several competing grammatical forms. The received text states that new wine bursts old skins, the wine is spilled, the skins are marred, and new wine must go into new skins.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-2-22-new-wine-and-new-bottles-which-clauses-complete-the-parable/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:53:59+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2009", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 2:26 — “In the Days of Abiathar the High Priest”: Error or Authentic Historical Reference?", "slug": "mark-2-26-in-the-days-of-abiathar-the-high-priest-error-or-authentic-historical-reference", "excerpt": "The phrase about Abiathar appears in both received and principal critical texts, though some witnesses omit or modify it. The historical question turns on Greek idiom and the Samuel narrative, not on an automatic assumption of error.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-2-26-in-the-days-of-abiathar-the-high-priest-error-or-authentic-historical-reference/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:53:59+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2011", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 3:29 — Eternal Damnation or Eternal Sin? The Warning against Blasphemy", "slug": "mark-3-29-eternal-damnation-or-eternal-sin-the-warning-against-blasphemy", "excerpt": "The warning ends with either “eternal judgment” or “eternal sin.” Both readings exclude forgiveness, but they describe the offender’s condition from different angles.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-3-29-eternal-damnation-or-eternal-sin-the-warning-against-blasphemy/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:53:59+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2003", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 1:8 — Water, the Holy Ghost, and the Two Baptisms of John’s Testimony", "slug": "mark-1-8-water-the-holy-ghost-and-the-two-baptisms-of-johns-testimony", "excerpt": "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.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-1-8-water-the-holy-ghost-and-the-two-baptisms-of-johns-testimony/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:53:58+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2004", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 1:14 — “The Gospel of the Kingdom of God”: Has the Kingdom Been Removed?", "slug": "mark-1-14-the-gospel-of-the-kingdom-of-god-has-the-kingdom-been-removed", "excerpt": "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.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-1-14-the-gospel-of-the-kingdom-of-god-has-the-kingdom-been-removed/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:53:58+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2005", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 1:41 — Moved with Compassion or Moved with Anger? Jesus and the Leper", "slug": "mark-1-41-moved-with-compassion-or-moved-with-anger-jesus-and-the-leper", "excerpt": "A striking minority reading says Jesus was moved with anger when the leper appealed to him. The received and principal critical texts retain compassion, but the harder reading has shaped modern discussion.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-1-41-moved-with-compassion-or-moved-with-anger-jesus-and-the-leper/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:53:58+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-2006", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Mark 2:14 — Levi the Son of Alphaeus: Name, Article, and Calling", "slug": "mark-2-14-levi-the-son-of-alphaeus-name-article-and-calling", "excerpt": "The main received and critical texts agree that Jesus called Levi the son of Alphaeus. Variants substitute James, adjust the article, or smooth the name, but they do not overturn the narrative identity.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/mark-2-14-levi-the-son-of-alphaeus-name-article-and-calling/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Passage, principal readings, and stated editorial comparison checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the SBLGNT apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. 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Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:53:57+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-1072", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Matthew 25:13, 31, 44 — The Son of Man’s Coming and the Final Judgment: Three Disputed Clauses", "slug": "matthew-25-13-31-44-the-son-of-man-s-coming-and-the-final-judgment-three-disputed-clauses", "excerpt": "> “Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.”", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/matthew-25-13-31-44-the-son-of-man-s-coming-and-the-final-judgment-three-disputed-clauses/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Recovered project data; bibliographic and source-level verification remains record-specific. 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Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:53:56+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-1074", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Matthew 27:16–49 — Jesus Barabbas, Vinegar and Gall, Divided Garments, the King of Israel, and the Spear Thrust", "slug": "matthew-27-16-49-jesus-barabbas-vinegar-and-gall-divided-garments-the-king-of-israel-and-the-spear-thrust", "excerpt": "The passion narrative carries several famous variants.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/matthew-27-16-49-jesus-barabbas-vinegar-and-gall-divided-garments-the-king-of-israel-and-the-spear-thrust/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Recovered project data; bibliographic and source-level verification remains record-specific. 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Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:53:56+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-1070", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Matthew 23:8, 13–14 — “One Is Your Master, Even Christ” and the Missing Woe", "slug": "matthew-23-8-13-14-one-is-your-master-even-christ-and-the-missing-woe", "excerpt": "The Textus Receptus names Christ at verse 8 and includes a woe against scribes and Pharisees at verse 14.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/matthew-23-8-13-14-one-is-your-master-even-christ-and-the-missing-woe/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Recovered project data; bibliographic and source-level verification remains record-specific. 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Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:53:55+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-1071", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Matthew 24:36, 42 — “Neither the Son” and “What Hour”: The Text of Christ’s Watchfulness Warning", "slug": "matthew-24-36-42-neither-the-son-and-what-hour-the-text-of-christ-s-watchfulness-warning", "excerpt": "> “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.”", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/matthew-24-36-42-neither-the-son-and-what-hour-the-text-of-christ-s-watchfulness-warning/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Recovered project data; bibliographic and source-level verification remains record-specific. 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Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:53:55+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-1067", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Matthew 20:22–23 — The Cup and the Baptism: Has Christ’s Saying Been Shortened?", "slug": "matthew-20-22-23-the-cup-and-the-baptism-has-christ-s-saying-been-shortened", "excerpt": "> “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?”", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/matthew-20-22-23-the-cup-and-the-baptism-has-christ-s-saying-been-shortened/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Recovered project data; bibliographic and source-level verification remains record-specific. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:53:54+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-1068", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Matthew 21:29–44 — Which Son Repented, and Does the Stone Saying Belong?", "slug": "matthew-21-29-44-which-son-repented-and-does-the-stone-saying-belong", "excerpt": "> “Whether of them twain did the will of his father?", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/matthew-21-29-44-which-son-repented-and-does-the-stone-saying-belong/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Recovered project data; bibliographic and source-level verification remains record-specific. 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Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:53:54+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-1064", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Matthew 19:9 — Fornication, Remarriage, and the Disputed Final Adultery Clause", "slug": "matthew-19-9-fornication-remarriage-and-the-disputed-final-adultery-clause", "excerpt": "> “And whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.”", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/matthew-19-9-fornication-remarriage-and-the-disputed-final-adultery-clause/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Recovered project data; bibliographic and source-level verification remains record-specific. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:53:53+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-1065", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Matthew 19:17 — “Why Callest Thou Me Good?” The Rich Young Ruler and the Goodness of God", "slug": "matthew-19-17-why-callest-thou-me-good-the-rich-young-ruler-and-the-goodness-of-god", "excerpt": "The rich young man calls Jesus “Good Master” and asks what good thing he must do to have eternal life.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/matthew-19-17-why-callest-thou-me-good-the-rich-young-ruler-and-the-goodness-of-god/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Recovered project data; bibliographic and source-level verification remains record-specific. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:53:53+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-1066", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Matthew 20:16 — “Many Be Called, but Few Chosen”: Is the Conclusion Authentic?", "slug": "matthew-20-16-many-be-called-but-few-chosen-is-the-conclusion-authentic", "excerpt": "The parable of the laborers ends in the received text with two sayings: “the last shall be first, and the first last,” and “many be called, but few chosen.”", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/matthew-20-16-many-be-called-but-few-chosen-is-the-conclusion-authentic/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Recovered project data; bibliographic and source-level verification remains record-specific. 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Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:53:53+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-1061", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Matthew 17:21 — “Prayer and Fasting”: Is the Entire Verse Authentic?", "slug": "matthew-17-21-prayer-and-fasting-is-the-entire-verse-authentic", "excerpt": "Many modern Bibles move this sentence to a footnote.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/matthew-17-21-prayer-and-fasting-is-the-entire-verse-authentic/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Recovered project data; bibliographic and source-level verification remains record-specific. 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Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:53:52+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-1062", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Matthew 18:11 — “The Son of Man Is Come to Save That Which Was Lost”", "slug": "matthew-18-11-the-son-of-man-is-come-to-save-that-which-was-lost", "excerpt": "This sentence stands between Christ’s warning not to despise his little ones and the parable of the wandering sheep.", "url": "https://confessionalbibliology.com/research/variants/matthew-18-11-the-son-of-man-is-come-to-save-that-which-was-lost/", "status": "Preliminary", "certainty": "", "verification_level": "Recovered project data; bibliographic and source-level verification remains record-specific. 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Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation. Supplied-source audit completed in Core 0.6.3. Accepted local notes were matched by canonical passage and manually bounded; source claims remain attributed where current apparatus verification is pending.", "review_level": "Level B — Editorial synthesis", "last_revised": "2026-07-22", "modified_gmt": "2026-07-23T00:53:37+00:00" }, { "record_id": "VAR-1022", "post_type": "cb_variant", "record_type": "Variant", "title": "Matthew 5:47 — Publicans or Gentiles? 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