Manuscript Evidence

Mark 9:29

“By prayer and fasting” is the reading of the great majority of Greek manuscripts and of four of the fifth century, Codex Alexandrinus, Codex Ephraemi, Codex Bezae, and Codex Washingtonianus, and Codex Sinaiticus as corrected. The Old Latin and the Vulgate have it, and Tregelles and the Tyndale House Greek New Testament print it.

The King James Bible

29 And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting. Read Mark 9
καὶ νηστείᾳ. kai nēsteia

Greek Manuscripts

Early Translations

  • Old Latin it
    2nd–4th century translation
    Most Old Latin manuscripts.
    Checked against: Scrivener 1894
  • Latin Vulgate vg
    Jerome, c. 400
    Mark 9:28 in the Vulgate’s numbering: “nisi in oratione et jejunio.”
    Checked against: Clementine Vulgate (1592)

Printed Greek Texts with This Reading

  • Textus Receptus · The Greek text the KJV was translated from, as Scrivener printed it (1894)
  • Majority Text · The Byzantine text, read by the great majority of Greek manuscripts (Robinson and Pierpont, 2005)
  • Tregelles · Samuel Prideaux Tregelles (1857–1879)
  • Tyndale House Greek New Testament · Tyndale House, Cambridge (2017)

Edition data from the Translators Amalgamated Greek NT, STEPBible.org (CC BY). About these texts and witnesses.

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