John 4:9 ouv ga.r sugcrw/ntai VIoudai/oi Samari,taij {A}

This explanatory comment is omitted in several witnesses (î* D ita ,b, d, e, j copfay). Although some have thought (Blass-Debrunner-Funk, § 193, 5) that the words are an early marginal gloss that eventually got into the text of most witnesses, such comments are typical of the evangelist. The omission, if not accidental, may reflect scribal opinion that the statement is not literally exact and therefore should be deleted.

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