"The following words, found in our Common Version, are not found in the oldest MSS, and are evidently no part of the Divine Word. Let each Berean go through his Bible, pencil in hand, and mark out these words: then read the passages affected and not the improvement. This list comprises all the importent interpolations to date.
"The compiler has condensed this list time and again until what remains represents about all there is of value to us in the Tischendorf work. From the compiler's point of view there exist very good reasons why everything in this list should be crossed out of our Bibles. Thus: when the interpolations are eliminated from Mark 14:30, 68, 72, the account agrees exactly with that given by the other evangelists. Or take Luke 23:34; history shows that the Jews have been obliged as a race to expiate their crime. Or take John 4:9; it does not agree at all with Luke 9:52, which shows that even our Lord himself did have such dealings. I have omitted from this list the dozens of interpolations made by early copyists with the aim of making all the naratives uniform, and the hundreds of non-essential words, the addition of which did not in my judgment affect the purity of the message:"
| Reference | Spurious Text |
|---|---|
| Matt. 5:22 | without a cause |
| Matt. 6:13 | For thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. |
| Matt. 6:25 | or what ye shall drink * |
| Matt. 16:2 | When it is evening, ye say, it will be fair weather: for the sky is red. |
| Matt. 16:3 | This entire verse. |
| Matt. 17:21 | and fasting |
| Matt. 18:12 | into the mountains * |
| Matt. 20:7 | and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive |
| Matt. 22:13 | and take him away |
| Matt. 23:35 | son of Barachias * |
| Matt. 24:10 | and shall hate one another * |
| Matt. 24:31 | sound of a * |
| Matt. 24:41 | women shall be |
| Matt. 25:6 | cometh |
| Matt. 27:52 | and the graves were opened * |
| Matt. 27:53 | and went * |
| Matt. 28:19 | therefore |
| Mark 4:37 | so that it was now full * |
| Mark 6:51 | beyond measure, and wondered |
| Mark 7:8 | For . . . as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do |
| Mark 7:14 | unto me every one of you * |
| Mark 9:24 | with tears |
| Mark 9:29 | and fasting |
| Mark 9:44 | This entire verse. |
| Mark 9:45 | into the fire that never shall be quenched |
| Mark 9:46 | This entire verse. |
| Mark 9:47 | fire |
| Mark 9:49 | and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt |
| Mark 10:24 | for them that trust in riches |
| Mark 10:30 | houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions * |
| Mark 14:30 | twice * |
| Mark 14:68 | and the cock crew |
| Mark 14:72 | the second time *, twice * |
| Mark 16:9-20 | All these verses. |
| Luke 2:40 | in spirit |
| Luke 8:45 | and sayest thou, Who touched me? |
| Luke 16:16 | and every man presseth into it * |
| Luke 17:12 | which stood afar off * |
| Luke 17:35 | women |
| Luke 18:11 | with himself * |
| Luke 22:43 | This entire verse |
| Luke 22:44 | This entire verse. |
| Luke 22:68 | me, nor let me go |
| Luke 23:5 | teaching * |
| Luke 23:34 | Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do |
| Luke 24:42 | and of an honeycomb |
| John 1:25 | asked him, and * |
| John 3:13 | which is in heaven |
| John 4:9 | for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans |
| John 5:3 | waiting for the moving of the water |
| John 5:4 | This entire verse. |
| John 5:25 | and now is * |
| John 8:1-11 | All these verses. |
| John 8:59 | going through the midst of them, and so passed by |
| John 16:16 | because I go to the Father |
| John 19:23 | and also his coat * |
| John 21:25 | This entire verse. * |
| Acts 6:3 | Holy Ghost and (should read -- spirit of) |
| Acts 6:8 | faith (should read -- grace) |
| Acts 8:37 | This entire verse. |
| Acts 9:31 | churches (should read -- church) were (should read -- was) |
| Acts 15:32 | and confirmed them * |
| Acts 18:5 | pressed in the spirit (should read -- earnestly occupied with the Word) |
| Acts 18:21 | I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but |
| Rom. 3:22 | and upon all |
| Rom. 6:12 | it in |
| Rom. 7:6 | that being dead (should read -- being dead to that) |
| Rom. 8:26 | for us |
| Rom. 11:6 | But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work |
| Rom. 14:6 | and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it |
| 1 Cor. 2:1 | testimony (should read -- mystery) * |
| 1 Cor. 6:20 | and in your spirit, which are God's |
| 1 Cor. 7:5 | fasting and |
| 1 Cor. 10:28 | for the earth is the LORD's, and the fullness thereof |
| 1 Cor. 15:24 | cometh | 2 Cor. 4:14 | by (should read -- with) |
| Gal. 3:1 | that ye should not obey the truth |
| Gal. 3:17 | in Christ |
| Gal. 5:19 | adultery |
| Gal. 5:21 | murders |
| Eph. 5:9 | Spirit (should read -- light) |
| Eph. 5:30 | of his flesh, and of his bones |
| 2 Thes. 2:9 | Even him |
| 1 Tim. 3:16 | God (should read -- who) * |
| 1 Tim. 4:12 | in spirit * |
| 1 Tim. 6:5 | from such withdraw thyself * |
| 2 Tim. 3:3 | without natural affection * |
| Heb. 12:18 | mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire (should read - fire that might be touched and burned) * |
| Heb. 12:20 | or thrust through with a dart * |
| Jas 5:16 | Confess your faults (should read -- Therefore confess your sins) * |
| 1 Pet. 2:5 | spiritual (before the word "sacrifices") * |
| 1 Pet. 3:8 | courteous (should read -- humble) |
| 2 Pet. 1:1 | God and our (should read -- our Lord and) * |
| 1 John 3:16 | of God |
| 1 John 5:7 | in heaven, the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one |
| 1 John 5:8 | And there are three that bear witness in earth |
| 1 John 5:13 | and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God |
| Rev. 1:17 | unto me, Fear not * |
| Rev. 2:22 | their (should read -- her) * |
| Rev. 5:3 | neither under the earth * |
| Rev. 5:9 | us (Omitted by the Alexandrian MS., one ofthe three oldest MSS. known) * |
| Rev. 5:10 | us (should read -- them) * we (should read -- they) * |
| Rev. 5:13 | and under the earth * | Rev. 6:2 | to conquer (should read -- he conquered) * |
| Rev. 9:4 | neither any green thing * |
| Rev. 9:13 | the four horns of * |
| Rev. 10:6 | and the sea, and the things which are therein * |
| Rev. 11:17 | and art to come * |
| Rev. 12:12 | inhabiters of * (before the words "the sea") * |
| Rev. 14:5 | before the throne of God * |
| Rev. 14:12 | here are they * |
| Rev. 16:5 | and shalt be (should read -- the holy) * |
| Rev. 16:7 | another out of * |
| Rev. 16:11 | and their sores * of their deeds * |
| Rev.16:17 | from the throne * |
| Rev. 18:22 | whatsoever craft he be * and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee * |
| Rev. 20:5 | But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished * |
| Rev. 21:24 | of them which are saved * and honor * |
| Rev. 21:26 | and honor * |
| Rev. 22:3 | more * |
"* Omitted by Sinaitic MS. Those not thus marked are omitted by both the Sinaitic and Vatican MSS. The Epistles to Timothy, the latter part of Hebrews, and all of Revelation, are missing from the Vatican MS. No. 1209, having been lost during the fifteen or more centuries since it was written. The Sinaitic MS. is perfect and complete and is the oldest known copy of the Scriptures, having been written (it is believed) in the year 331 A. D."