Luke 17:36: Why Modern Bibles Leave It Out, and the Evidence

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Luke 17:36

“Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left” is in Codex Bezae of the fifth century and in the Vulgate.

36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Read Luke 17

δύο ἐν ἀγρῷ· εἷς παραλημφθήσεται καὶ ὁ ἕτερος ἀφεθήσεται duo en agrō heis paralēmphthēsetai kai ho heteros aphethēsetai

Codex Bezae D 05 5th century

Without “shall be”: “two in the field, one shall be taken and the other left.”

Checked against: CNTR transcription

Latin Vulgate vg Jerome, c. 400

At the end of Luke 17:35 in the Vulgate’s numbering: “duo in agro: unus assumetur, et alter relinquetur.”

Checked against: Clementine Vulgate (1592)

Textus Receptus · The Greek text the KJV was translated from, as Scrivener printed it (1894)

Edition data from the Translators Amalgamated Greek NT, STEPBible.org (CC BY). About these texts and witnesses.