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VAR-1022 · Variant · Preliminary

Adverse entailment established

Matthew 5:47 — Publicans or Gentiles? Identifying Christ’s Comparison

The final comparison varies.

Verification
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.
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Level B — Editorial synthesis
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VAR-1021 · Variant · Preliminary

Adverse entailment established

Matthew 5:44 — Love, Bless, Do Good, and Pray: The Full Command Concerning Enemies

The critical text shortens this fourfold command to two parts: love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.

Verification
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.
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Level B — Editorial synthesis
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VAR-1020 · Variant · Preliminary

No adverse entailment · agrees with the received text

Matthew 5:37 — “Let Your Communication Be, Yea, Yea”: The Imperative Form of the Saying

> “But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay.”

Verification
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.
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Level B — Editorial synthesis
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VAR-1017 · Variant · Preliminary

Adverse entailment established

Matthew 5:22 — “Without a Cause”: Does Christ Condemn Every Form of Anger?

The words without a cause are absent from several important early witnesses.

Verification
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.
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Level B — Editorial synthesis
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VAR-1018 · Variant · Preliminary

Adverse entailment established

Matthew 5:27 — “Said by Them of Old Time”: The Fuller Introduction to the Seventh Commandment

The phrase by them of old time is missing from the modern critical text and from the reconstructed Byzantine majority text.

Verification
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.
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Level B — Editorial synthesis
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VAR-1019 · Variant · Preliminary

No adverse entailment · agrees with the received text

Matthew 5:32 — The Omitted Adultery Clause in Christ’s Teaching on Divorce

> “And whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.”

Verification
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.
Review
Level B — Editorial synthesis
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VAR-1016 · Variant · Preliminary

Adverse entailment established

Matthew 5:13 — “Cast Out and Trodden Under Foot”: Has the Salt Saying Been Shortened?

> “It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.”

Verification
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.
Review
Level B — Editorial synthesis
Open controlled record

VAR-1015 · Variant · Preliminary

No adverse entailment · agrees with the received text

Matthew 5:4–5 — Were the Second and Third Beatitudes Transposed?

> “Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Verification
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.
Review
Level B — Editorial synthesis
Open controlled record

VAR-1014 · Variant · Preliminary

Adverse entailment established

Matthew 4:12, 23 — “Jesus Heard” and “All Galilee”: Two Variants at the Opening of the Ministry

Twice near the opening of the Galilean ministry, some witnesses omit the name Jesus.

Verification
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 B — Editorial synthesis
Open controlled record

VAR-1011 · Variant · Preliminary

No adverse entailment · agrees with the received text

Matthew 3:11–12 — Baptism, Fire, and “His Garner”: Small Variants in John’s Warning

> “He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire.”

Verification
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.
Review
Level B — Editorial synthesis
Open controlled record

VAR-1012 · Variant · Preliminary

Adverse entailment established

Matthew 3:15–16 — Jesus’ Baptism: “Him,” “Unto Him,” and the Opened Heavens

> “Then he suffered him.

Verification
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.
Review
Level B — Editorial synthesis
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VAR-1013 · Variant · Preliminary

Adverse entailment established

Matthew 4:10 — “Get Thee Hence, Satan”: The Full Force of Christ’s Rebuke

The received rebuke is ὕπαγε ὀπίσω μου, Σατανᾶ: “Go behind me, Satan.”

Verification
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.
Review
Level B — Editorial synthesis
Open controlled record

VAR-1009 · Variant · Preliminary

Adverse entailment established

Matthew 2:18 — “Lamentation, Weeping, and Great Mourning”: The Full Text of Rachel’s Cry

The received quotation gives three sounds: lamentation, weeping, and great mourning.

Verification
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.
Review
Level B — Editorial synthesis
Open controlled record

VAR-1008 · Variant · Preliminary

No adverse entailment · agrees with the received text

Matthew 2:5 — Did a Copyist Add Micah—or Even Isaiah—to the Prophetic Citation?

> “And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda.”

Verification
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.
Review
Level B — Editorial synthesis
Open controlled record

VAR-1010 · Variant · Preliminary

Adverse entailment established

Matthew 3:7 — “His Baptism”: Does the Pronoun Belong in John’s Rebuke?

The difference is a pronoun.

Verification
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.
Review
Level B — Editorial synthesis
Open controlled record

VAR-1005 · Variant · Preliminary

Adverse entailment established

Matthew 1:18 — “The Birth of Jesus Christ” or “The Genesis of Jesus Christ”?

The received Greek uses γέννησις, “birth.”

Verification
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.
Review
Level B — Editorial synthesis
Open controlled record

VAR-1007 · Variant · Preliminary

Adverse entailment established

Matthew 1:25 — “Her Firstborn Son” or Simply “a Son”?

> “And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.”

Verification
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.
Review
Level B — Editorial synthesis
Open controlled record

VAR-1006 · Variant · Preliminary

No adverse entailment · agrees with the received text

Matthew 1:22 — Did a Copyist Name Isaiah in Matthew’s Prophetic Formula?

Matthew does not name the prophet here.

Verification
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.
Review
Level B — Editorial synthesis
Open controlled record

VAR-1004 · Variant · Preliminary

No adverse entailment · agrees with the received text

Matthew 1:16 — “Joseph the Husband of Mary”: The Text and the Virgin Birth

> “Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.”

Verification
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.
Review
Level B — Editorial synthesis
Open controlled record

VAR-1003 · Variant · Preliminary

No adverse entailment · agrees with the received text

Matthew 1:11 — Was Jehoiakim Omitted from Matthew’s Genealogy?

> “And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon.”

Verification
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.
Review
Level B — Editorial synthesis
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VAR-1002 · Variant · Preliminary

Adverse entailment established

Matthew 1:10 — Amon or Amos? A Second Genealogical Name under Review

Matthew’s next disputed name repeats the shape of the first.

Verification
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.
Review
Level B — Editorial synthesis
Open controlled record

VAR-1001 · Variant · Preliminary

Adverse entailment established

Matthew 1:7–8 — Asa or Asaph? The Name in Christ’s Royal Genealogy

One Greek letter turns a king into a psalmist.

Verification
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.
Review
Level B — Editorial synthesis
Open controlled record

VAR-0001 · Variant · Preliminary

Adverse entailment established

1 John 5:7–8: The Heavenly Witnesses

Canonical lead variation unit for .

Verification
Recovered project data; bibliographic and source-level verification remains record-specific. 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 B — Editorial synthesis
Open controlled record

VAR-0004 · Variant · Preliminary

Adverse entailment established

John 7:53–8:11: The Pericope Adulterae

Canonical lead variation unit for .

Verification
Recovered project data; bibliographic and source-level verification remains record-specific. 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 B — Editorial synthesis
Open controlled record