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GC: Both variants a and b have incoherencies, but a has a small coherent core of A-related witnesses.
TP: Variant a is ambiguous in meaning. At first glance it will be read as recitative while it can also be understood as interrogative as in NA28 and other modern editions.[1] Therefore Greeven thinks that the majority reading b is a clarification and opts for a as initial text.[2] The incoherencies in the a attestation, however, show an inclination to omit τί rather than to add it.
[1] Cf. BDF/BDR §300.2, where ὅτι in Mark 2:16 is interpreted as abbreviating τί ὅ τι.
[2] Greeven in Textkritik, 158.
