Matthew 6:28 — How the Lilies Grow: Competing Forms of Christ’s Illustration
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…
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Matthew 6:25 — “What Ye Shall Eat, or What Ye Shall Drink”: The Full Saying on Anxiety
The words or what ye shall drink have uneven support. Some witnesses omit the whole phrase; others keep drink but change the connector between eating and drinking.
Open record →Matthew 6:15 — “Their Trespasses”: Has the Warning about Forgiveness Been Reduced?
The final words their trespasses are absent from a notable early stream. Sinaiticus omits them; Vaticanus keeps them.
Open record →Matthew 6:13 — “Thine Is the Kingdom”: The Doxology of the Lord’s Prayer
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 tradition,…
Open record →Matthew 6:12 — “As We Forgive” or “As We Have Forgiven”? The Petition Concerning Debts
The Textus Receptus uses a present verb: as we forgive. The critical text uses an aorist that is often rendered as we have forgiven.
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