by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
The received text says your Father; some witnesses say simply the Father or otherwise shorten the possessive. A more expansive ancient reading says he knows before the worshipper opens his mouth. The main editions reject that picturesque addition. “For your Father...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
The witnesses vary in the number and form of “grow,” in the order of the clauses, and in attempts to explain what lilies do not do. An Oxyrhynchus fragment preserves a related saying about not carding or spinning, but it is not a manuscript of Matthew. “Consider the...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
“But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.” — Matthew 6:15 The final words their trespasses are absent from a notable early stream. Sinaiticus omits them; Vaticanus keeps them. The Textus Receptus and the broad Greek...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
“For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.” — Matthew 6:13 The doxology of the Lord’s Prayer is absent from several early witnesses, including Sinaiticus and Vaticanus. It stands in the Textus Receptus and the broad Greek church...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
The title “singular or plural heavens” names a problem that is not in the Greek manuscripts. Both the Textus Receptus and the critical text use the plural οὐρανοῖς. The Authorized Version renders that plural with idiomatic English heaven. “He that doeth the will of my...
