John 5:4

John 5:3-4 The Troubling of the Water

Verse 4 is found in the Majority of all Greek manuscripts, including:

Old Latin copies: a, aur, b, c, e, ff2, g1, j, r1

Latin Vulgate

Vulgate Clementine

Syriac Peshitta

Harkelian,

Palestinian

some Coptic Boharic copies

Armenian and Ethiopian ancient versions.

Codex C was amended to agree with the reading found in the Reformation Bibles

Codex D retains the words from verse three.

NASB 1963 - 72 omitted the verse with a footnote: "many authorities insert..."

1977 and 1995 NASB placed these words back into the text with [brackets]

NASB 2020 edition omitted the verse.

Early Church writers

Tertullian

Tatian Diatessaron

Gregory of Nazianzus

Ambrose

Chrysostom

Didymus

Ammonius

Hilary

Ephraem the Syrian

Nilus

Jerome

Cyril of Alexandria

Augustine

Theodorus Studita

Reformation Bibles:

Wycliffe

Tyndale

Coverdale

Matthew's

Great

Geneva

Bishops'

Douay Rheims

King James

Foreign Language Bibles:

The Anglo Saxon Gospels

Saxon Gospels

Spanish Sagradas Escrituras

Spanish Reina Valera

Italian Diodati

Riveduta

La Parola e Vita

Afrikaans

Arabic Smith & Van Dyke

Navaro-Labourdin

Bulgarian Protestant Bible

Chinese Union Version

Croatian

Czech

Danish BPH

Dutch Staten Vertaling

Danish

Finnish

French Martin

French Ostervald

French Louis Segond

German Luther

German Schlachter

Icelandic

Hungarian Karoli

Japanese

Korean

Latvian

Lithuanian

Maori Bible

Netherlands Het Boek

Norwegian En Leavened

Polish Gdansk

Romanian Cornilescu

Romanian Fidela

Portuguese Almeida Corregida

Russian Synodal Version

Swahili

Tagalog

Thai

Turkish

Ukranian

Vietnamese

Missing from Egyptian texts: Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, P66 and P75.

Westcott and Hort omitted them.

Nestle critical Greek text put them back in the text

The same Nestle-Aland scholars decided again to remove all words.

Omitting the last part of verse three and all of verse four, there is no explanation as to why all those people were gathered at the pool, and verse 7 makes no sense at all. "The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me."

Special Thanks to Will Kinney.

Dr. Steven A. Hite