Johannine Comma

English

Proper noun

the Johannine Comma

  1. A short phrase, included in some manuscripts of 1 John 5:7-8, whose authenticity is debated and is widely agreed to be an interpolation.

Usage notes

Its text (with the comma in bold) in the King James Bible reads:

7For there are three that beare record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 8And there are three that beare witnesse in earth, the Spirit, and the Water, and the Blood, and these three agree in one.

King James Version (1611)

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