Mark 13:33

Footnotes

1. 42 The vast majority of witnesses (א A C L W Θ Ψ f1, 13 𝔐 lat sy co) have καὶ προσεύχεσθε after ἀγρυπνεῖτε (agrupneite kai proseuchesthe, “stay alert and pray”). This may be a motivated reading, influenced by the similar command in Mark 14:38 where προσεύχεσθε is solidly attested, and more generally from the parallel in Luke 21:36 (though δέομαι [deomai, “ask“] is used there). As B. M. Metzger notes, it is a predictable variant that scribes would have been likely to produce independently of each other ( ). The words are not found in B D 2427 a c {d} k. Although the external evidence for the shorter reading is slender, it probably better accounts for the longer reading than vice versa.