1 John 5:7The Heavenly Witnesses
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Mark 16:9-20The Longer Ending of Mark
John 7:53-8:11The Woman Taken in Adultery
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| Research lens | 1 John 5:7 | Mark 16:9-20 | John 7:53-8:11 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading catalogued | For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. | Mark 16:9-20, the longer ending of Mark. | The account of the woman taken in adultery. |
| Support category | Late heterogeneous Greek presence witnesses with much earlier Latin literary and biblical reception | Byzantine reconstructed witness with second-century patristic quotation | 71 entries at the standard location in the selected IGNTP John corpus |
| Variant type | major-omission, doctrinal-variant, complex-evidence | major-omission, resurrection, great-commission | major-omission, complex-evidence |
| Earliest KJV-supporting evidence | c. AD 210 — Tertullian, Against Praxeas 25, related three-one theological language.; c. AD 250 — Cyprian, On the Unity of the Church 6; the verbal relationship is debated.; c. AD 380 — Priscillian, Liber Apologeticus 1, gives the Father, the Word, and the Spirit bearing witness in heaven and being one.; Fifth century — Codex Speculum (m) contains the Comma in a non-continuous collection of Latin Scripture quotations.; Seventh century — the Catholic-Epistle leaves of the Fragmenta Frisingensia and the León Palimpsest contain Comma forms. Codex Fuldensis, copied in AD 546, omits the Comma in its biblical text; its prologue is separate literary evidence. | Before AD 150 — Epistula Apostolorum, related awareness of the longer ending. Exact citation: c. AD 180 — Irenaeus quotes Mark 16:19 by name. | c. AD 110–140 — Papias, related story of a woman accused before the Lord. This is evidence for an early story tradition, not proof of its location in John. Johannine manuscript form: fifth century — Codex D. |
| Evidence represented | Greek support records, Latin support records, Patristic records, Competing reading records, Printed-edition records | Greek support records, Latin support records, Versional support records, Patristic records, Competing reading records | Greek support records, Latin support records, Patristic records, Competing reading records, Other or qualified reading records |
| Evidence assessment | Ten late Greek manuscripts contain a Comma form: five in the biblical text and five as later marginal variants. The forms are heterogeneous rather than ten identical copies of the final Textus Receptus wording. The overwhelming Greek transmission omits the clause. The reading has an earlier and broader Latin reception, beginning with related third-century usage, an explicit complete form in Priscillian, a fifth-century non-continuous Scripture-quotation witness, and seventh-century continuous Latin biblical witnesses. | The Longer Ending is carried by Codex Ephraemi, Bezae, Washingtonianus, Sangallensis, Koridethi, Families 1 and 13, twenty-six further named Greek entries, three lectionaries and the Byzantine reconstructed witness, with the Latin D/I/V states, Peshitta and Harklean, Ethiopic and Gothic. Irenaeus quotes Mark 16:19 as the conclusion of Mark's Gospel around AD 180. Sinaiticus, Vaticanus and 304 end at 16:8, and four further Greek entries carry the Short Ending before the Longer Ending. | In the 236-document IGNTP/ITSEE John corpus at John 7:53, 71 documentary entries carry the verse at the standard location, 49 omit it there and 116 are deficient. Codex Bezae is the earliest extant Greek manuscript carrying the story at the Johannine location. Sixteen rows of the official Vetus Latina John synopsis carry it at the normal location, and Ambrose, Jerome and Augustine all treat it as Johannine. |
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1 John 5:7
The Heavenly Witnesses
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
Ten late Greek manuscripts contain a Comma form: five in the biblical text and five as later marginal variants. The forms are heterogeneous rather than ten identical copies of the final Textus Receptus wording. The overwhelming Greek transmission omits the clause. The reading has an earlier and broader Latin reception, beginning with related third-century usage, an explicit complete form in Priscillian, a fifth-century non-continuous Scripture-quotation witness, and seventh-century continuous Latin biblical witnesses.
Open full dossierMark 16:9-20
The Longer Ending of Mark
The longer ending of Mark, including the resurrection appearances, the commission, and the ascension statement.
The Longer Ending is carried by Codex Ephraemi, Bezae, Washingtonianus, Sangallensis, Koridethi, Families 1 and 13, twenty-six further named Greek entries, three lectionaries and the Byzantine reconstructed witness, with the Latin D/I/V states, Peshitta and Harklean, Ethiopic and Gothic. Irenaeus quotes Mark 16:19 as the conclusion of Mark's Gospel around AD 180. Sinaiticus, Vaticanus and 304 end at 16:8, and four further Greek entries carry the Short Ending before the Longer Ending.
Open full dossierJohn 7:53-8:11
The Woman Taken in Adultery
The passage concerning the woman taken in adultery, Jesus' response, and the saying, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
In the 236-document IGNTP/ITSEE John corpus at John 7:53, 71 documentary entries carry the verse at the standard location, 49 omit it there and 116 are deficient. Codex Bezae is the earliest extant Greek manuscript carrying the story at the Johannine location. Sixteen rows of the official Vetus Latina John synopsis carry it at the normal location, and Ambrose, Jerome and Augustine all treat it as Johannine.
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