:TEXT: "The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God." : Sa A B D K L W Delta Pi f1 f13 33 565 700 892 1010 Byz Lect lat vg syr(p,h) cop : KJV ASV RSV NASV NIV NEB TEV RANK: CNOTES: "The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ." : S* Theta 28c syr(pal) : ASVn RSVn NASVn NIVn NEBn TEVnOTHER: "The beginning of the gospel of Jesus." : 28* OTHER* "The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of the Lord." : 1241 : The words "the Son of God" are in brackets in the UBS text. Some of the evidence listed above for this reading has "Son of the God." While it is possible that the words were added by copyists, it is more likely that they are original and were accidently omitted when copyists' eyes jumped from the word "Christ" to "God," both of which have the same ending in Greek.