Matthew 6:13
What is commonly referred to as the Lord's Prayer ends with these words: "For thine is the
kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen." Out of about 1000 remaining
manuscripts these words are found in all but 10, or a ratio of 100 to 1. They are included in the
Didache 150 AD, and the Diatessaron 170 AD (200 years before Sinaticus and Vaticanus). They
are also found in the following ancient Bible versions: The Old Latin 200 AD, the Syriac
Peshitta 250 AD, Harclean, Curetonian, Palestinian, Coptic, Gothic, Armenian, and Ethiopic.
These inspired words of our Lord Jesus Christ are also found in Tyndale, Coverdale, Great Bible,
Matthew's Bible, the Bishops' Bible, the Geneva Bible, NKJV, Lamsa's 1936 translation of the
Syriac, the Italian Diodati, Spanish Reina Valera, German Luther, and the new Complete Jewish
Bible.
However both Sinaiticus and Vaticanus omit all these words and the NIV, RSV, ESV omit them
while the NASB, and Holman Standard put them in brackets.
Matthew 16:2-3 Both Sinaiticus and Vaticanus completely omit most of 2 and all of verse 3.
"When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will
be foul weather today: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of
the sky: but can ye not discern the signs of the times?". Here the NASB includes the words with
no notes while the NIV footnotes that these words "are not found in some early manuscripts".
Matthew 17:20 An error still retained in the NASB, ESV and NIV is the result of following
Aleph and B. When the disciples could not cast out a devil they ask Jesus why. The Lord tells
them, "Because of your UNBELIEF: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of
mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall
remove." In this instance they had no faith at all and Jesus tells them that if they had just a little
bit of faith they could remove mountains.
However both Aleph and B read "little faith" instead of “unbelief”, and so the NASB, ESV and
NIV read, "Because you have SO LITTLE FAITH. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small
as a mustard seed. . .". If they had a little bit of faith to begin with, it doesn't make sense to tell
them they only need a mustard seed of faith to accomplish great things. But if they had no faith,
then Jesus's words make sense.
