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> "that they may be one"
> -Jesus, as quoted in John's gospel

Curious thing, that.  In  the oldest extant manuscript there is a sort of 
smudge at this point in the text.  Copyists and translators for centuries 
skipped over it - unable to make it out.  But modern spectrographic analysis 
of the page reveals that following this versicle we find:

  AKATASTASIAChAOU

Parsed and added to the above versicle it reads:

"...that they may be one [Hell of a mess]."

That should make the true believers happier.  Otherwise we must ask 
ourselves "What were Jesus' big mistakes?"  since it did NOT turn out as the 
unaugmented text says was Jesus' intent.

Fra. James