Matthew 19

Matthew 19:3

:TEXT: “And Pharisees came up to him and tested him”

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ASV RSV NASV NIV NEB TEV RANK: CNOTES: “And the Pharisees came up to him and tested him”

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KJV ASVnCOMMENTS: Copyists were known to add the definite article.

Matthew 19:4

:TEXT: “the One who created [them] from the beginning made them male and female”

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ASVn NASV TEV RANK: BNOTES: “the One who made [them] from the beginning made them male and female”

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KJV ASV RSV NIV : Although it is possible that “created” was introduced into the text as a literal translation of the Hebrew reading in Genesis 1:27 (perhaps by Origen), it is more likely that “created” was changed by copyists to its synonym “made” to make it agree with the Greek Old Testament rendering of that verse, which reads “made.”

Matthew 19:9

:TEXT: “adultery.”

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ASVn RSV NASV NIV NEB TEV RANK: CNOTES: “adultery; and the one who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.”

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KJV ASV RSVn NASVn NEBnCOMMENTS: Some copyists added this clause with several variations of grammar from Matthew 5:32.

Matthew 19:16

:TEXT: “said, ‘Teacher, what good thing should I do’”

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ASV RSV NASV NIV NEB TEV RANK: BNOTES: “said, ‘Good teacher, what good thing should I do’”

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KJV ASVnCOMMENTS: The word “good” here seems to have been added by copyists from the parallel passages in Mark 10:17 and Luke 18:18. It is missing from early manuscripts of both Alexandrian and Western kinds of ancient text.

Matthew 19:17

:TEXT: “Why do you ask me about what [is] good? There is [only] One who is good.”

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ASV RSV NASV NIV NEB TEV RANK: BNOTES: “Why do you call me good? No one [is] good except One, [that is], God.”

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KJV ASVnOTHER: “Why do you ask me about what [is] good? There is [only] One who is good, [that is], God.”

most lat vg syr(c) some syr(pal) most cop(north) OTHER: “Why do you ask me about what [is] good? No one is good except One, [that is], God.”

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The reading in the notes seems to have been taken from the parallel passages in Mark 10:18 and Luke 18:19. The reading in the text is found in Caesarean as well as Alexandrian and Western types of ancient text.

Matthew 19:29

:TEXT: “will receive a hundredfold”

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KJV ASV RSV NASVn NIV TEV RANK: BNOTES: “will receive many times more”

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ASVn RSVn NASV : The text of Matthew was either changed to read like Mark 10:30 (“a hundredfold”) or like Luke 18:30 (“many times more”). The reading “a hundredfold” was chosen because the evidence seems to be greater for it, and because Matthew and Mark more often originally read the same than Matthew and Luke.