The copies

Witness

Matthew jumps a verse. The prayer stops. Two strokes decide God or He.

Walk the copies. KJV often keeps the longer reading. BSB follows the older books. When a post says theft, we show you the page. A missing verse is often still in Mark. This is not a decoder ring for villains.

The gaps

A line sits in the KJV and not in the oldest copy. It is often still in Mark or Luke.

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The joins

An Amen was added. A hard stop was kept. Sweat like blood is argued. A woman the church would not lose.

01Amen02Ending03Sweat04Woman

The words

The copies disagree on God or He, on blood, on three that testify, and on God or Son.

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The gaps · 08 of 15 · James and John, still

What manner of spirit

They want fire on a village. He rebukes them. The extra sentences are how later copies named the rebuke.

King James (1611)
But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.
Berean Standard Bible
But Jesus turned and rebuked them. And He and His disciples went on to another village.

οὐκ οἴδατε οἵου πνεύματός ἐστε ὑμεῖς· ὁ γὰρ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου οὐκ ἦλθεν ψυχὰς ἀνθρώπων ἀπολέσαι ἀλλὰ σῶσαι

The seam

  1. 01Fire on the village

    Luke 9:54

    Lord, do You want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them? James and John have Elijah in their mouths. The village said no.

  2. 02He turned and rebuked them

    Luke 9:55

    The oldest copies stop there. The rebuke is real. The extra sentences are how later copies filled the silence they could not bear.

  3. 03To save, not destroy

    John 3:17

    God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. The line the later Luke copies wanted here is already John’s.

  4. 04The seeking Son

    Luke 19:10

    The man is Zacchaeus, in the same Gospel. For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost. You do not need 9:56 to hear it.

In these copies

  • later copies, D in part
  • Textus Receptus
  • KJV

Not in these copies

  • p⁴⁵
  • p⁷⁵
  • Sinaiticus
  • Vaticanus
  • A, B, C, L, W, Ξ
  • BSB, WEB, ASV, NIV

Read it this way

A Samaritan village will not receive Him, because His face is set toward Jerusalem. James and John ask if they should call down fire, the way Elijah did. The oldest Luke says only this: He turned and rebuked them. Then they went to another village.

Later copies name the rebuke. “You do not know what manner of spirit you are of. The Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.” That is Luke’s Jesus. It is also Luke 19:10, and John 3:17. A scribe who loved those lines often wrote them here so the rebuke would not sit as a silence.

WEB, BSB, and ASV follow the older, shorter Luke. KJV prints the named rebuke. The saving Son is not missing from Luke. What is missing from the oldest copies of this village is the sermon that later hands were sure He had just said.

Still on the page: Luke 19:10 — For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost. Same Gospel. Same voice. Already on the page.

Some sayThey cut the verse where Jesus says He came to save, not destroy.

He still rebukes the fire. The oldest Luke does not pause to quote Him. Luke 19:10 already does.

  • KJV

    on the page

  • WEB

    not printed

  • BSB

    not printed

  • ASV

    not printed

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The line the text already walks — that is Foretold. Words you already say out loud sit in Words with weight. Witness is when the copies do not match.