Mark 7:6-8

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Mark 7:6 tn The term “heart” is a collective singular in the Greek text.
2. Mark 7:7 sn A quotation from Isa 29:13.
3. Mark 7:8 tn Grk “Having left the command.”
4. Mark 7:8 tc The majority of mss, mostly Byzantine ([A] ƒ¹³ 33 M), have at the end of v. 8 material that seems to have come from v. 4 and v. 13: “the washing of pots and cups, and you do many other similar things.” A slight variation on the wording occurs at the very beginning of v. 8 in mostly Western witnesses (D Θ 0131^vid 28 565 it). Such floating texts are usually signs of scribal emendations. The fact that the earliest and most reliable mss, as well as other significant witnesses (P⁴⁵ א B L W Δ 0274 ƒ¹ co), lacked this material also strongly suggests that the longer reading is secondary.