Tischendorf and Tregelles accordingly reject them.
And yet it is perfectly certain that the words are genuine.

Those thirty-one letters probably formed three lines in the oldest copies of all.

Hence they are observed to exist in the Syriac (Peshitto, Harkleian and Jerusalem), the Vulgate, some copies of the Old Latin, the Armenian, and the Ethiopic, besides at least seventeen uncials (including B[Symbol: Phi][Symbol: Sigma]), and the vast majority of the cursives.
So that there can be no question of the genuineness of the clause.
A somewhat graver instance of omission resulting from precisely the same cause meets us a little further on in the same Gospel.

The threefold recurrence of [Greek: ton] in the expression [Greek: TON psichion TON piptonTON] (St.Luke xvi.

21), has (naturally enough) resulted in the dropping of the words [Greek: psichion ton] out of some copies.
Unhappily the sense is not destroyed by the omission.