The “if you ask me anything” vs the “if you ask anything” is fully explained. We also look at the theological bias in the New World Translation of the Jehovah's Witnesses.
NTTC John 14:14: “If you ask [me] anything in my name, I will do it.”
PAPYRUS 75 (P75): The Manuscript that Changed the Thinking of Textual Scholars
The discovery of P75 proved to be the catalyst for correcting the misconception that early copyists were predominately unskilled. As we elsewhere on our blog earlier, either literate or semi-professional copyist produced the vast majority of the early papyri, and some copied by professionals.
Textual Character and the Scribe of P75 (Papyrus 75)
P75 contains most of Luke and John, known as Bodmer 14, 15 (P75), dating from 175 C.E. to 225 C.E. It is textually very close to Codex Vaticanus. A handful from the 19th and early 20th centuries argued that Codex Vaticanus and Sinaiticus manuscripts removed the Byzantine text readings. However, if this were true and the corrupt Byzantine readings were early as some claim, we would have those readings in P75 to prove it, as well as the other 60+ papyrus manuscripts dating from 100-300 A.D.