traditional testimonia reading is being used or that what is taking place is of the nature of an incidental variation. Representative are the following: 1. Matt 11:10 and Luke 7:27 quote a conflation of Mal 3:1 and Isa 40:3 Both correctly translate the MT’s ופנה־דרך as a piel, rendering it ὃς κατασκευάσει (“who shall prepare”), against the LXX’s καὶ ἐπιβλέψεται, which treats it as a qal. Mark 1:2 also reads it as the other synoptists do, though not as a quotation of Jesus. Probably the reading