It is pretended that this is nothing else but an importation from the parallel place of St.Matthew's Gospel (x.

15).

But that is impossible: for, as the reader sees at a glance, a delicate but decisive note of discrimination has been set on the two places.

St.Mark writes, [Greek: SodomOIS E GomorrOIS]: St.Matthew, [Greek: GE SodomON KAI GomorrON].
And this threefold, or rather fourfold, diversity of expression has existed from the beginning; for it has been faithfully retained all down the ages: it exists to this hour in every known copy of the Gospel,-- except of course those nine which omit the sentence altogether.

There can be therefore no doubt about its genuineness.