The critics of the modern school (Lachmann, Tischendorf, Tregelles, Alford, Westcott and Hort) seek in vain to put upon us a mutilated text by omitting those fifteen words.

The two places are clearly independent of each other.
It does but remain to point out that the exclusion of these fifteen words from the text of St.Mark, has merely resulted from the influence of the parallel place in St.Luke's Gospel (ix.

5),--where nothing whatever is found[225] corresponding with St.Matt.x.

5--St.Mark vi.
11.

The process of Assimilation therefore has been actively at work here, although not in the way which some critics suppose.