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Published 28 July 2026 · Updated 16 September 2026
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What the source reads — (the earliest Greek has no such verse)
What this version reads — Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
Present in the Byzantine text and the KJV, absent from the earliest Greek — likely harmonized in from the parallel at Mark 9:29. Scholars divide on whether it was added or lost.
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