This wholesale importation suggests the inquiry,--How did it come about?
We look further, and we find that Cod.

D abounds in instances of 'Assimilation' so unmistakably intentional, that this speedily becomes the only question, How may all these depravations of the sacred text be most satisfactorily accounted for?
[And the answer is evidently found in the existence of extreme licentiousness in the scribe or scribes responsible for Codex D, being the product of ignorance and carelessness combined with such looseness of principle, as permitted the exercise of direct attempts to improve the sacred Text by the introduction of passages from the three remaining Gospels and by other alterations.] Sec.

3.
Sometimes indeed the true Text bears witness to itself, as may be seen in the next example.
The little handful of well-known authorities ([Symbol: Aleph]BDL, with a few copies of the Old Latin, and one of the Egyptian Versions[186]), conspire in omitting from St.John xvi.

16 the clause [Greek: hoti ego hypago pros ton Patera]: for which reason Tischendorf, Tregelles, Alford, Westcott and Hort omit those six words, and Lachmann puts them into brackets.

And yet, let the context be considered.