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John 16

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john.16.doToYou16

ταῦτα ποιήσουσιν / ταῦτα ποιήσουσιν ὑμῖν

TEXTGRAMMARTRANSLATIONhigh confidence

Does verse 3 explicitly say these things will be done ‘to you’?

The pronoun is absent from P66 and several major witnesses but present in another ancient stream. English context can supply it even when Greek does not.

Why this default

The pronoun is omitted by default because the shorter wording has very early and broad support; ‘to you’ is an obvious contextual clarification.

Evidence

ExternalOmit: P66, A, B, E, 047, 0233; include ‘to you’: א, D, L and several ancient versions.

InternalThe audience is already explicit from context, making addition for clarity more likely than deliberate omission.

Project defaultAnd these things they will do

Project default · shorter early text

WitnessesOmit ὑμῖν · P66, A, B, E, 047, 0233
AlternativeAnd these things they will do to you

Ancient explicit pronoun

Witnessesὑμῖν · א, D, L, Old Latin, Syriac and Coptic support
AlternativeAnd these things they will do [to you]

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WitnessesDisplay option · pronoun bracketed

Reference roleStandardized inspectable reference; manuscript forks are independently reopened.

Revision historyNo decision-level revision has been recorded since the provenance ledger was introduced.

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