Matius 14:24-27

14:24 Meanwhile the boat, already far from land, ¹  was taking a beating from the waves because the wind was against it. 14:25 As the night was ending, ²  Jesus came to them walking on the sea. ³  14:26 When ⁴  the disciples saw him walking on the water ⁵  they were terrified and said, “It’s a ghost!” and cried out with fear. 14:27 But immediately Jesus ⁶  spoke to them: ⁷  “Have courage! It is I. Do not be afraid.”

[14:24]  ¹ tn Grk “The boat was already many stades from the land.” A stade (στάδιον, stadion) was a unit of distance about 607 feet (187 meters) long.

[14:25]  ² tn Grk “In the fourth watch of the night,” that is, between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m.

[14:25]  ³ tn Or “on the lake.”

[14:26]  ⁴ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[14:26]  ⁵ 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]  ⁶ 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]  ⁷ tn Grk “he said to them, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant and has not been translated.