'Many Things'
17 July 2023
For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just man and an holy, and observed him; and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly.
Mark 6.20
In this verse most of the modern versions discard “he did many things”, and put instead, “he was greatly perplexed”, or an expression of equivalent meaning. Modern scholars endeavor to justify the alteration on the ground that newly discovered manuscripts
not available to the translators of the Authorised Version in 1604-1611 make the change imperative. The impression is given that since 1611 thousands of documents have been discovered and that they support the new reading. It is true that thousands
of documents have been discovered during this period, but it is also true that the vast majority of them support the reading preserved in the Authorised Version. A very small minority of the documents can be quoted in support of the new reading.
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