Textual variant
The angel troubling the water
Editions differ on whether John 5 contains the explanation that an angel went down at a certain season and troubled the water, and that the first to step in was healed.
Variant, not contradiction
Variant unit
Manuscript- Unit
- John 5:3b-4
- Passages
- John 5:4
- Readings recorded
- 2
Text as seeded
TextThe passage text CodexTrace holds, in the seeded translation.
For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
Readings
ManuscriptWith the explanatory verse
The text includes the account of the angel troubling the water and the healing of the first to enter.
Translation: Present in the King James Version.
Without the explanatory verse
The narrative proceeds without the explanation.
Translation: Omitted or footnoted in most modern translations.
Witness evidence
ManuscriptManuscripts, versions and citations supporting each reading, with the source each entry came from.
Research pending. CodexTrace has not curated a witness list for this variant unit, and does not approximate one — an unverified siglum is indistinguishable from a verified one to most readers. Curating this requires attaching witness rows, each with its own source record.
Translation and interpretive impact
InterpretationTranslation impact
Modern translations commonly omit the verse from the running text and record it in a note, which changes the verse numbering a reader sees.
Interpretive impact
The verse supplies the explanation for the invalid’s statement in verse 7; without it, that statement is unexplained in the narrative.
Manuscript resources
ManuscriptManuscript evidence has not yet been curated for this record.
Linked contradiction records
AnalysisClaims whose tension may be explained, in whole or part, by this variant.
No contradiction record is linked to this variant.
Sources
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King James Version (Authorised Version)
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