A Textual Commentary On The Greek NT

Luke 19:25

Luke 19:25 include verse {A}

Although it could be argued that ver. Luke 19:25 was a marginal comment subsequently inserted by copyists into the text (but in that case the subject of ei=pan would probably not have been left ambiguous — are they the bystanders of ver. Luke 19:24, or those to whom Jesus was telling the parable?), a majority of the Committee considered it to be more probable that the words were omitted in several Western witnesses (D W 565 it^{b, d, e, ff²} syr^{c, s} cop^bo al) either (a) by assimilation to the Matthean parallel ( Matthew 25:28-29) or (b) for stylistic reasons, thereby providing a closer connection between verses Luke 19:24 and Luke 19:26. A majority of the Committee considered that, on balance, both external attestation and transcriptional probabilities favor the retention of the words in the text.

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Luke 19:25

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