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Matthew 5:22
Matthew 5:22 Did Jesus Sin?
Another instance where the Majority Text is ignored for one manuscript: Vaticanus.
Scholars list “without a cause” is missing from I64 but when you look at the tiny fragments that are left, most of the page is entirely missing. That’s disingenuous.
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Matthew 5:22 Did Jesus Sin?
Another instance where the Majority Text is ignored for one manuscript: Vaticanus.
Scholars list “without a cause” is missing from I64 but when you look at the tiny fragments that are left, most of the page is entirely missing. That’s disingenuous.
The incredulous theory of the difficult reading is the most accurate is still in use for this verse. The reason Daniel Wallace, Westcott and Hort, and other “scholars” reject “without a cause” is that it is harder to explain the legitimacy of the verse than including it. No matter the evidence, the harder it is to explain, the closer to the original it is. The Emperor’s New Clothes.
The word translated “without a cause” is the reading of the vast Majority of all remaining Greek manuscripts, including Sinaiticus correction, D, L, W the Old Latin copies of a, aur, b, c, d, f, ff1, g1, h, k, l, q,
Ancient Lectionaries
Syriac Peshitta
Harclean
Palestinian
Curetonian
Coptic Sahidic
Boharic
Gothic
Armenian
Georgian
Slavonic (early versions)
Constitutions of the Holy Apostles (200 – 400 AD), Book 2, Sec 6
Diatessaron (160-175 A.D.)
Early church writings:
Irenaeus 115 – 202 AD
Taitian 140 AD
Origen
Cyprian (200 – 258 AD
Commodianus 3rd Century
Augustine 354 – 430 AD
Eusebius
Chrysostom
Cyril
Theodoret and Hilary
Reformation Bibles:
Matthew’s Bible
Great Bible
Bishops’ Bible
Geneva Bible
King James
Beza’s New Testament
Foreign language Bibles:
German Schlachter Bible
Italian Diodati
Nuovo Diodati
Nuova Riveduta
Spanish Sagradas Escrituras
Cipriano de Valera
Reina Valera of 1858 and 1909
Spanish Reina Valera Gómez Bible
Hungarian Karoli Bible
Russian Synodal Version
French Martin Bible
French Ostervald
Louis Segond
Greek Orthodox New Testament
Afrikaans bible 1953
Portuguese A Biblia Sagrada em Portugues,
Portuguese Almeida Corrigida e Fiel
Polish Biblia
Special Thanks to Will Kinney for his research.