Matthew 14:25-27

14:25 As the night was ending, ¹  Jesus came to them walking on the sea. ²  14:26 When ³  the disciples saw him walking on the water ⁴  they were terrified and said, “It’s a ghost!” and cried out with fear. 14:27 But immediately Jesus ⁵  spoke to them: ⁶  “Have courage! It is I. Do not be afraid.”

[14:25]  ¹ tn Grk “In the fourth watch of the night,” that is, between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m.

[14:25]  ² tn Or “on the lake.”

[14:26]  ³ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[14:26]  ⁴ tn Grk “on the sea”; or “on the lake.” The translation “water” has been used here for stylistic reasons (cf. the same phrase in v. 25).

[14:27]  ⁵ tc Most witnesses have ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς (Jo Ihsous, “Jesus”), while a few lack the words (א* D 073 892 pc ff¹ sy^c sa bo). Although such additions are often suspect (due to liturgical influences, piety, or for the sake of clarity), in this case it is likely that ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς dropped out accidentally. Apart from a few albeit important witnesses, as noted above, the rest of the tradition has either ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς αὐτοῖς (Jo Ihsous autois) or αὐτοῖς ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς (autois Jo Ihsous). In uncial letters, with Jesus’ name as a nomen sacrum, this would have been written as autoisois_ or ois_autois. Thus homoioteleuton could explain the reason for the omission of Jesus’ name.

[14:27]  ⁶ tn Grk “he said to them, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant and has not been translated.