:TEXT: "Why do we and the Pharisees fast much" : Sb C D K L W X Delta Theta Pi f1 f13 33 565 700 892 1010 Byz Lect two lat syr(p,h,pal) cop : KJV ("oft") ASV ("oft") RSVn TEV ("often") RANK: CNOTES: "Why do we and the Pharisees fast frequently" : Sa most lat vg syr(s) : RSVnNOTES: "Why do we and the Pharisees fast" : S* B few cop(south) : ASVn RSV NASV NIV NEB : The word "much" is enclosed in brackets in the UBS text. The reading "frequently" seems to have been borrowed from Luke 5:33. Neither word is found in the parallel in Mark 2:18. It seems most likely that "much" was original and that copyists either changed it to "frequently" or omitted it to make it the same as the parallel passages.