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One verse — 1 John 5:7 — names the Father, the Word, and the Spirit as three-in-one. Scholars call this line the 'Comma Johanneum.' What's notable about it?

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The answer

The explicit three-in-one wording appears in no Greek manuscript from the first millennium; it surfaces in the Latin tradition and enters printed Greek Bibles only in the 1500s. That's why modern translations set it aside.

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Why it’s interesting

It made it into the King James Version through a printed Greek text of the day, which is how a verse absent from the early manuscripts became familiar to generations of readers. The scholarship here is about tracing a line back through the copies to see when it first appears.

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