by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Passage: Mark 14:22–24Received reading: “Take, eat” and “This is my blood of the new testament.”Principal competing reading: “Take” and “This is my blood of the covenant,” omitting “eat” and “new.”Editorial status: Preliminary record accepted for staging; independent...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Passage: Mark 14:30, 68, 72Received reading: The cock crows twice: prediction in verse 30, first crow in verse 68, second crow in verse 72.Principal competing reading: A once-crowing form that omits “twice,” the first crow, and/or “the second time.”Editorial status:...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Passage: Mark 15:28Received reading: The full fulfillment citation, “And he was numbered with the transgressors.”Principal competing reading: Omission of Mark 15:28.Editorial status: Preliminary record accepted for staging; independent review remains pending.“And the...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Passage: Mark 15:34Received reading: “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani,” followed by “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”Principal competing reading: Forms beginning “Eli, Eli,” often assimilated to Matthew, with spelling and word-order variants in the...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Passage: Mark 15:39Received reading: “Seeing that he thus cried out and gave up the ghost” (ὅτι οὕτω κράξας ἐξέπνευσεν).Principal competing reading: “Seeing that he thus breathed his last” (ὅτι οὕτως ἐξέπνευσεν).Editorial status: Preliminary record accepted for...
