Matthew 21’s earliest witnesses favor the harder, shorter readings, yielding a coherent text and bracketing 21:44 on the authority of 𝔓104.
Bart D. Ehrman’s Textual Criticism: Misrepresentation, Misinformation, and Scholarly Duplicity
Bart Ehrman misleads lay readers about New Testament textual criticism by overstating uncertainty while acknowledging stability among scholars.

