Matthew 14:1
MATTHEW 14:1 tetraa,rchj See the comment on Ac 13.1.... [ Continue Reading ]
MATTHEW 14:1 tetraa,rchj See the comment on Ac 13.1.... [ Continue Reading ]
MATTHEW 14:3 Fili,ppou {A} According to Josephus (see his _Antiquities,_ XVIII.v:4) the first husband of Herodias was named Herod (being the son of Herod the Great and Mariamne, Simon’s daughter), whereas it was [Herod] Philip the tetrarch ( Luke 3:1) who married Salome, the daughter of Herodias. I... [ Continue Reading ]
MATTHEW 14:9 luphqei.j o` basileu.j dia, {B} The reading supported by the chief representatives of the Alexandrian and the Western types of text involves a certain ambiguity (i.e. does the phrase with dia, qualify luphqei,j or evke,leusen?). In order to resolve the ambiguity copyists inserted de,,... [ Continue Reading ]
MATTHEW 14:12 auvto,@n# On the one hand, the predominant external evidence attests auvto, (or its phonetic near-equivalent, auvtw|/), with only a* B 0106 ita syrc, s eth attesting auvto,n. On the other hand, however, it is much more likely that copyists would conform the personal pronoun to the im... [ Continue Reading ]
MATTHEW 14:24 stadi,ouj pollou.j avpo. th/j gh/j avpei/cen {C} The question is whether Matthew was here assimilated by copyists to John (stadi,ouj ei;kosi pe,nte h' tria,konta, John 6:19) or to Mark (h=n to. ploi/on evn me,sw| th/j qala,sshj, Mark 6:47). Since the process of harmonization more ofte... [ Continue Reading ]
MATTHEW 14:29 kai. h=lqen {B} The reading kai. h=lqen (“Peter walked upon the water _and came_ to Jesus”) seemed to say too much, and therefore was altered to evlqei/n (“Peter walked upon the water _to come_ to Jesus”). Although the reading of a* has the appearance of being a conflation, it may be... [ Continue Reading ]
MATTHEW 14:30 a;nemon @ivscuro,n# {C} From the standpoint of external evidence, although the combination of a B* 073 33 copsa, bo, fay is impressive attestation, a majority of the Committee considered it too exclusively Egyptian to be followed here, where the shorter text may have arisen by acciden... [ Continue Reading ]