<P> Doubts about its genuineness were indicated in printed Greek New Testaments as early as that of the first two editions (1515 & 1519) of Erasmus of Rotterdam, who simply left the verse out because he could not find a Greek ms containing it - and provided a comment that "this is all I find in the Greek manuscript". Expressions of doubt also appeared in the edition of Stephen Courcelles (Étienne de Courcelles), in 1658, and from Johann Jakob Griesbach's edition of 1775 . Most critical editions relegated the Comma to a footnote or otherwise marked it as doubtful . The American Bible Union . a Baptist organization, omitted this verse from the new English translations of the New Testament it published in the 1860s . The Roman Catholic Church was a bit more resistant about yielding up this verse; an 1897 decision of the Holy Inquisition forbade a Catholic "to deny or even express doubt about the authenticity of" the Johannine Comma, but this was effectively reversed by a declaration of the Holy Office on June 2, 1927, which allows scholars to express doubts and even denials of the genuineness of the Comma, tempered by the fact that the Vatican would have the final authority . and, e.g., the 1966 Jerusalem Bible omits the Comma without a footnote . The spurious nature of this verse is so notorious that even the Revised Version of 1881 did not bother to include nor provide a footnote for this verse, and many other modern versions do likewise . Ezra Abbot wrote, "It may be said that the question (of excluding this verse) is obsolete; that the spuriousness of the disputed passage had long been conceded by all intelligent and fair - minded scholars . This is true, but a little investigation will show that great ignorance still exists on the subject among the less - informed in the Christian community ." Even the two leading editions of the so - called Majority Text (Robinson & Pierpont, and Hodges & Farstad) omit this verse (the Hodges & Farstad edition acknowledge the' Textus Receptus' version of this verse in a footnote). </P> <P> KJV: And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet, for a testimony against them: Verily I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the Day of Judgement, than for that city . And they went out, and preached...</P> <P> RV: (omits the emphasized words, without a footnote). </P> <P> Reason: Many (perhaps most) modern versions emulate the Revised Version and simply omit the sentence in question, without any explanatory comment . This is a complete sentence and yet it did not receive, in the Textus Receptus editions, a verse number of its own . It does not appear here in the majority of important codices, such as א, B, C, D, L, W, Δ, Θ, and Latin, Sahidic, and some Syriac and Boharic manuscripts . It does, however, appear in some significant manuscripts, including ƒ, A, two very old Latin manuscripts, and some Syriac and Boharic manuscripts, and with slight differences in minuscule 33 (9th century). It was already doubted even before the KJV; this sentence does not appear in Wycliff (1380), the Bishops Bible (1568), and the Rheims (1582). Westcott and Hort omitted it and did not even mention it in their Appendix volume, nor is it mentioned in Scrivener's Plain Introduction to Criticism of the New Testament, nor is it mentioned in Metzger's Commentary, nor does it get even a footnote in the Souter or UBS Greek New Testament . Henry Alford's edition of the New Testament includes this sentence in the main text, but bracketed and italicized, with the brief footnote: "omitted in most ancient authorities: probably inserted here from Matthew 10: 15 ." The same two sentences do appear, without any quibbling about their authenticity, in Matthew 10: 14 - 15, and it is plausible that some very early copyist assimilated the sentence into Mark, perhaps as a sidenote subsequently copied into the main text . In any case, its omission from Mark 6: 11 does not effect its unchallenged presence in Matthew 10: 15 . </P>

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