St.Mark xv.

28 has been hitherto read in all Churches as follows:--'And the Scripture was fulfilled, which saith, "And He was numbered with the transgressors."' In these last days however the discovery is announced that every word of this is an unauthorized addition to the inspired text.

Griesbach indeed only marks the verse as probably spurious; while Tregelles is content to enclose it in brackets.

But Alford, Tischendorf, Westcott and Hort, and the Revisers eject the words [Greek: kai eplerothe he graphe he legousa, kai meta anomon elogisthe] from the text altogether.

What can be the reason for so extraordinary a proceeding?
Let us not be told by Schulz (Griesbach's latest editor) that 'the quotation is not in Mark's manner; that the formula which introduces it is John's: and that it seems to be a gloss taken from Luke xxii.