Matthew 12:14-15

12:14 But the Pharisees went out and plotted against him, as to how they could assassinate ¹  him.

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12:15 Now when Jesus learned of this, he went away from there. Great ²  crowds ³  followed him, and he healed them all.

[12:14]  ¹ tn Grk “destroy.”

[12:15]  ² tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

[12:15]  ³ tc א B pc lat read only πολλοί (polloi, “many”) here, the first hand of N reads ὄχλοι (ocloi, “crowds”), while virtually all the rest of the witnesses have ὄχλοι πολλοί (ocloi polloi, “great crowds”). In spite of the good quality of both א and B (especially in combination), and the testimony of the Latin witnesses, the longer reading is most likely correct; the shorter readings were probably due to homoioteleuton.