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Luke 20

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luke.20.lk20DenyResurrection

οἱ λέγοντες / οἱ ἀντιλέγοντες ... ἀνάστασιν

TEXTTRANSLATIONmoderate confidence

How does the text introduce the Sadducees’ resurrection position?

Witnesses divide between saying there is no resurrection, speaking against it, and an expanded relative construction.

Why this default

The ‘say there is no resurrection’ form is default on early support; the contradicting and relative forms remain explicit.

Evidence

ExternalThe first two readings are widely and distinctly transmitted; the relative form is narrower.

InternalParallel Gospel introductions and stylistic clarification encouraged alternate participles.

Project defaultSome Sadducees—those who say there is no resurrection—approached and questioned him

Project default · early reading

Witnessesοἱ λέγοντες — א, B, C, D, L, Θ, family 1, 33
AlternativeSome Sadducees—those who argue against resurrection—came and questioned him

Broad later reading

Witnessesοἱ ἀντιλέγοντες — A, W, family 13, Byzantine witnesses
AlternativeSome Sadducees, who maintain that resurrection does not exist, approached to question him

Expanded construction

Witnessesοἵτινες λέγοντες — Ψ and lectionary support

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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