by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Passage: Mark 9:49Received reading: “Every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.”Principal competing reading: “Every one shall be salted with fire” alone; another stream has only “every sacrifice shall be salted with...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Passage: Mark 10:7Received reading: “A man shall leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife.”Principal competing reading: “A man shall leave his father and mother,” passing directly to “and the two shall be one flesh.”Editorial status: Preliminary record...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Passage: Mark 10:21Received reading: “Come, take up the cross, and follow me.”Principal competing reading: “Come, follow me,” omitting “take up the cross.”Editorial status: Preliminary record accepted for staging; independent review remains pending.“Come, take up the...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Passage: Mark 10:24Received reading: “How hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!”Principal competing reading: “How hard it is to enter into the kingdom of God,” omitting the qualification.Editorial status: Preliminary record...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Passage: Mark 11:22Received reading: “Have faith in God” (ἔχετε πίστιν θεοῦ), taking “God” as the object of faith.Principal competing reading: Interpretations such as “have God’s faith” or “have the faithfulness of God”; a conditional textual variant also occurs in a...
