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The Verse That Disappeared

Open a King James Bible to Matthew chapter 17 and you will find, right after verse 20, a verse that many modern translations have quietly removed from the text entirely. Verse 21 reads:

Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.— Matthew 17:21 (KJV)

If you reach for a newer translation — the NIV, the ESV, the NLT — you will discover that the verse is either gone, relegated to a footnote, or placed in brackets with a note explaining that "the earliest and most reliable manuscripts" do not contain it. And there is a technical truth behind that claim. The two oldest complete Greek manuscripts of the New Testament, Codex Sinaiticus (dated approximately AD 325–360) and Codex Vaticanus (dated approximately AD 300–325), both omit this verse. The great uncial codices Alexandrinus (5th century) and the vast majority of later manuscripts, however, include it. The Textus Receptus, which was the compiled Greek text used by William Tyndale and later the translators of the King James Version, contains it without question.

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Above the Page

God, Disclosure & the Cosmic Author

On why the existence of other worlds does not diminish the sacredness of this one, and what it means that the Author stepped into His own story.

The Author's Book in the Cosmos

"The Author exists outside the narrative, above the text, holding the entire story in mind."

There is a strange anxiety creeping through the Church these days — a quiet tremor at the thought that we may not be alone in the universe. Government disclosures, once the stuff of science fiction, now arrive with the weight of official testimony. Craft of unknown origin. Beings of unknown biology. Worlds beyond our own, perhaps teeming with life we have yet to comprehend. And for some believers, this raises a question that shakes the foundation: If there are others out there, what does that mean for us? What does it mean for the Bible? What does it mean for God?

I want to suggest something that may bring peace rather than fear: it changes nothing. Not because the cosmos is small, but because God is infinitely larger than we have imagined Him to be.

Minister Adam Michael Lechner
KRYST UNITY — THREE GENIUSES, LLC

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