Research works shows that vs. 4 is not in the original texts, but is folklore.
Scholars who make a career of comparing manuscripts (“textual critics†and “paleographersâ€) have discovered that in roughly two dozen manuscripts scribes put asterisk marks at the verse to warn the next scribe who would copy the manuscript that the verse was likely not original.
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Scholars who make a career of comparing manuscripts (“textual critics†and “paleographersâ€) have discovered that in roughly two dozen manuscripts scribes put asterisk marks at the verse to warn the next scribe who would copy the manuscript that the verse was likely not original.
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