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Mark 9
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mark.9.m9IfCan
τὸ εἰ δύνῃ / εἰ δύνασαι πιστεῦσαι
TEXTGRAMMARTRANSLATIONhigh confidence
Does Jesus echo ‘If you can,’ or say ‘If you can believe’ ?
The difficult early form turns the father’s own words back upon him: ‘The “if you can”!’ A later stream adds ‘believe,’ making the condition explicit.
Why this default
The abrupt echo ‘The “if you can”!’ is default because it is the strongly attested, more difficult wording; the expanded reading smooths Jesus’ reply into a familiar maxim about belief.
Evidence
ExternalThe concise reading is supported by א, B, C*, L, W and Δ; the expansion appears in A, C², D, K, Θ and the later tradition.
InternalCopyists had a clear motive to clarify the elliptical article-plus-quotation construction and supply ‘believe.’
Project defaultThe ‘if you can’! All things are possible for the one trusting
Project default · difficult early form
Witnessesτὸ εἰ δύνῃ · א, B, C*, L, W, Δ, 33AlternativeIf you can believe, all things are possible for the one trusting
Expanded traditional reading
Witnessesεἰ δύνασαι πιστεῦσαι · A, C², D, K, Θ, later traditionAlternativeIf you can [believe]—all things are possible for the one trusting
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