Gospel of Mark 1.1 · 1.1

<p>The parentheses around <span class="gk">Υἱοῦ Θεοῦ</span> are Nestle's, not ours. The words are absent from the original hand of Codex Sinaiticus and from several of Origen's citations, and present in Vaticanus and the great majority of witnesses. Westcott and Hort argued the case in their <em>Notes on Select Readings</em> (1881), and Swete printed an apparatus in 1909 — neither transcribed by us, so neither is quoted here. What our own frozen text shows is this: <strong>Nestle sets the words in parentheses</strong>.</p><p>Dodson glosses <span class="gk">εὐαγγέλιον</span> as "the good news of the coming of the Messiah, the gospel." Counted in our own frozen text the word occurs <strong>8 times</strong> in this gospel. That it was imperial vocabulary before it was ecclesiastical — the Priene calendar inscription of 9 BC, and Deissmann's argument from the documentary papyri — is the reading we want to show here, but those sources are not yet transcribed, so we name them rather than quote them.</p>

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