Mark 7:16: Why Modern Bibles Leave It Out, and the Evidence

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Mark 7:16

“If any man have ears to hear, let him hear” is the reading of the great majority of Greek manuscripts and of three of the fifth century, Codex Alexandrinus, Codex Bezae, and Codex Washingtonianus, and the Vulgate has it. Tregelles printed it.

The King James Bible

16 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. Read Mark 7

Εἴ τις ἔχει ὦτα ἀκούειν ἀκουέτω. Ei tis echei ōta akouein akouetō

Greek Manuscripts

Byzantine manuscripts 𝔐 9th–16th centuries

Checked against: TAGNT (Robinson–Pierpont)
Codex Washingtonianus W 032 4th–5th century
Codex Alexandrinus A 02 5th century
Codex Bezae D 05 5th century

Early Translations

Latin Vulgate vg Jerome, c. 400

Checked against: Clementine Vulgate (1592)

Printed Greek Texts with This Reading

Textus Receptus · The Greek text the KJV was translated from, as Scrivener printed it (1894)
Majority Text · The Byzantine text, read by the great majority of Greek manuscripts (Robinson and Pierpont, 2005)
Tregelles · Samuel Prideaux Tregelles (1857–1879)

Witnesses checked against CNTR transcription except where noted. Edition data from the Translators Amalgamated Greek NT, STEPBible.org (CC BY). About these texts and witnesses.