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John 12
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john.12.burialKeeping12
ἵνα… τηρήσῃ / τετήρηκεν
TEXTGRAMMARTRANSLATIONhigh confidence
Did Mary keep it, or was she to keep it?
The early tradition reads a purpose clause, ‘so that she may keep it.’ A later major reading changes the verb to ‘she has kept it,’ fitting the ointment already poured out.
Why this default
The purpose-clause reading is default because it has early and diverse support and readily explains why copyists changed the verb after Mary had already poured out the ointment.
Evidence
ExternalThe purpose clause is supported by P66, א, B, D, K, L, W and others; the perfect-tense reading by A, family 1/13 and the Byzantine tradition.
Internal‘She has kept it’ resolves the narrative tension created by commanding that already-used ointment be kept, making it the easier secondary reading.
Project defaultLeave her, so that she may keep it for the day of my burial
Project default · early purpose clause
Witnessesἵνα… τηρήσῃ · P66, א, B, D, K, L, W, Θ, ΨAlternativeLeave her; she has kept it for the day of my burial
Later perfect-tense reading
Witnessesτετήρηκεν · A, 065, families 1/13, Byzantine traditionAlternativeLeave her—[so that she may keep/she has kept] it for my burial day
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