Subject: Re: John 14:14

From: Jim West <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 17:29:25 -0500 (EST)

In regards to the question concerning the text of John 14:14-

X, f1, 565, b, sy(s)- omit the entire verse.  This I think simply because of
haplography.

me is omitted by A, D, K, L, Q, etc.
me is included (apparently- the apparatus of NA26 does not say) by the Byz
texts. (yet it is included in NA26!).

The choice is a toss up, it seems, on external criteria.  Likewise, in my
view, the internal criteria are indecisive.

This is one of those many examples where there is no clear indication one
way or the other.  We cannot tell! (Or, to be more modest, I cannot tell)
which reading is original.

Jim

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Jim West, ThD
Adjunct Professor of Bible, Quartz Hill School of Theology
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