Scribal Changes to Circumvent Misunderstandings
"The potential problem is that, as it reads, the text could be interpreted to mean not that John the Baptist was Elijah, but that he was the Son of Man. Scribes knew full well this was not the case, and so some of them switched the text around, making the statement 'his disciples realized that the was speaking to them about John the Baptist' occur before the statement about the Son of Man."
Misquoting Jesus pg 95
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