3, 4 is argued for strenuously by Mr.M'Clellan, with more hesitation by Dr.Scrivener, and in 'Supernatural Religion' (sixth edition), against Tregelles, Tischendorf, Milligan, Lightfoot, Westcott and Hort.

In the same passage Bethsaida is read by Lachmann (margin) and by Westcott and Hort.

In John vi.

51 the reading of Tertullian and the Sinaitic Codex is defended by Tischendorf; the approximate reading of B, C, D, &c.

is admitted by Lachmann, Tregelles, Milligan, Westcott and Hort, and the received text has an apologist in Mr.M'Clellan (with Tholuck and Wordsworth).