Kata Markon

["Ted Blakley" <jtedblakley AT gmail.com>]

I sent this email to the TC list and thought I would try it here as well.

Last night I was at home reading through the parables discourse in Mark
4. I have a book that is simply a Greek-English diglot of Mark that was
produced some years ago as a help for Bible translators. I was
surprised when I came to Mark 4:11 which reads:

YMIN DEDOTAI GNWNAI TO MUSTHRION THS BASILEIAS TOU QEOU

My
surprise was with GNWNAI because I had never seen (or at least
recalled) a Greek text with GNWNAI in it. I checked my UBS3 and it
didn't show any variants for 4:11. When I came to work, I checked my
NA27 which has a variant for 4:11 but no reference to this one. I then
checked Swanson and there are actually quite a few manuscripts that
attest to GNWNAI (G f1 1424, delta, 33, 28, 1346, C, D, M, U, theta,
f13, 2 157, 565, 579, 700, 1071, the majority text). It is also found
in the editions by Tishendorf, Scrivener, and Stephanus.

I then glanced through some Markan commentaries, the ones that
generally note textual issues (JMarcus, RTFrance, RAGuelich, RGundry)
and no body mentioned it; even Gundry who usually has a comment about
everything. I then went to my excellent and trusted textual commentary
by Wieland Wilker and again no mention of this variant, as far as I can
tell. Why is it that this variant does not show up on anybody's radar
except for Swanson? After all it seems to me that it is a fairly
significant variant; perhaps not original (I haven't spent any time
thinking through the evidence) but significant nonetheless not least
because there is a minor agreement at this point between Matthew and
Luke against Mark. They both have

YMIN DEDOTAI GNWNAI TA MUSTHRIA THS BASILEIAS ... (Matt 13:11 // Luke 8:9). Notice the GNWNAI and the plural TA MUSTHRIA

Am
I missing something here? 
Also, if anyone knows of any discussions
regarding the variant I would appreciate the bibliography.

Sincerely,
Ted Blakley

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