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.

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. — 2 Timothy 2:15

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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.