Fathers of Doubt

Westcott & Hort

At the forefront of textual corruption, you have Westcott and Hort who were not only unbelievers, they were practicing occultists.
Of anyone working with 'God's words', these men were the most inappropriate.

See the King James Bible Research Council's video for more details

Corruption

The Evidence

In Matthew 27:49, BOTH Sinaiticus and Vatican’s as well as Codex C ADD the words "AND ANOTHER TOOK A SPEAR AND PIERCED HIS SIDE AND THERE CAME OUT WATER AND BLOOD."

But NO bible version includes these words here. Why? Because this textual blunder would have our Lord Jesus being put to death, and then He continues to speak several whole sentences afterwards. AFTER the event recorded in Matthew 27:49 when Jesus said "I thirst" (John19:28) and one gave him to drink a sponge filled with vinegar (Compare Matthew 27:34 (gall offered but not drunk) with Matthew 27:48 vinegar offered and drunk), they said: "Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him.", THEN we have the Lord Jesus recorded as saying: "It is finished." in John 19:30 and finally "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. And he gave up the ghost." in Luke 23:46.

Luke 22:43-44 and the Vaticanus manuscript.

43 And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.
44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

All these words are found in the Majority of all Greek manuscripts including D, E, F, G, H, K, L, Q, X and the Old Latin copies ita itaur itb itc itd ite itff2 iti itl itq itr1 as well as the Syriac Curetonian, Palestinian, Harclean, and Syriac Peshitta, as well as the Ethiopic and Slavonic ancient versions and the Diatessaron 165 A.D.

Sinaiticus is interesting in that these two verses were in the original Sinaiticus, then some scribe omitted them and then another scribe put them back in the text!

The main manuscripts that omit both these verses are Vaticanus, P75, A and a handful of other minor copies.

The Revised Standard Version 1972 actually omits all of verses 43 and 44.

42 "Father, if thou art willing, remove this cup from me; nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done." 43 * [No text] 44 * [No text] 45 And when he rose from prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping for sorrow,”

For a more detailed demonstration, CLICK HERE. This demonstrates the corruptions of the Alexandrian test-type, to which we have the likes of John William burgon, Herman Hoskier, Prebendary H. Scrivener and many other scholars & sources/establishments like the King James Bible Research Council and Chick Publications etc, who expose this textual corruption which is pushed as 'oldest and best' in modern bibles.

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