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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 — For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.
Absent from the oldest manuscripts; likely drawn in from Luke 19:10. Present in the Byzantine tradition and the KJV.
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