:TEXT: "they started reasoning with one another [that he said this] because they had* no bread." : p45 B D W f1 28 565 700 most lat cop(south) most cop(north) (include "saying") : ASVn NASV RANK: CNOTES: "they started reasoning with one another, saying, "[It is] because we have no bread.'" : S (omit "saying") A C K L X Delta Theta Pi f13 33 892 1010 1241 Byz Lect three lat vg syr(p,h) some cop(north) : KJV ASV RSV NIV NEB TEV ("He says this"): It change from indirect to direct discourse was perhaps made by copyists under the influence of the parallel in Matthew 16:7 which reads "we took no bread." It was perhaps prompted by the fact that the text reading is in the present tense: "they have." Manuscript D and most of the old latin manuscripts change this to an imperfect tense: "they had."