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.

01Fasting02Lost03Widows04Ears05Worm06Forgive07Numbered08Fire09Field10Barabbas11Angel12I believe13Goads14Silas15Grace

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.

01Comma02Blood03God or He04Son of God05God or Son

The gaps · 06 of 15 · Matthew’s other half

If you do not forgive

Mark 11:25 already says forgive. A scribe finished the thought from Matthew.

King James (1611)
But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.
Berean Standard Bible
Not in the BSB main text.

The seam

  1. 01When you stand praying, forgive

    Mark 11:25

    Mark already has the open half. Forgive, and your Father will forgive. The oldest copies stop there and walk toward the temple question.

  2. 02Matthew’s other half

    Matthew 6:15

    If you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive you. Still in the prayer chapter, in every translation here.

  3. 03The couplet, written in

    Mark 11:26

    Later Mark copies finish the rhyme from Matthew. The KJV numbers it. The warning did not leave the Bible.

In these copies

  • Byzantine majority
  • KJV, WEB

Not in these copies

  • Sinaiticus
  • Vaticanus
  • L, W, Δ, Ψ
  • BSB, ASV, NIV

Read it this way

Mark 11:25 already says it: when you stand praying, forgive, so that your Father in heaven will forgive you. That is the mountain-moving chapter. The oldest copies then go on to the question about authority. There is no verse 26.

Matthew 6:15 is the other half — if you do not forgive, neither will your Father. A scribe who had just copied Mark 11:25 often wrote Matthew’s warning in, so the thought would not sit unfinished. The Lord’s Prayer was in his ear. He finished the couplet.

The warning stands in Matthew 6:15 in every Bible on this shelf. Mark’s oldest copies already told you to forgive while you pray. They did not print the negative in this verse. They did not delete it from the Gospel.

Still on the page: Matthew 6:15 — But if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive yours.

Some sayThe warning about unforgiveness was cut.

The warning stands in Matthew 6:15 in every Bible on this shelf.

  • KJV

    on the page

  • WEB

    on the page

  • BSB

    not printed

  • ASV

    not printed

Open Mark 11

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.