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GC: The witnesses closely related to A are mostly found in the a attestation, which is a coherent MT attestation. The relatively small attestation of b has 03 and 019 and is strengthened by Family 13.

TP: Since 03 is known for omitting small dispensable words, its attestation here is unexpected. Further preference for b is that, as Greeven states, the substantival πολλοί without an addition (e.g. ἐκ + genitive) is uncommon in the Gospels.^[1]