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GC: There is a small A-related attestation supported by a large strand of late Byzantine witnesses (Kr) for a, and coherent majority with a broad A-related top for b.
TP: πάντες may have been inserted to enforce the statement parallel with verse 12.[1]
It was decided to leave the decision open because of the weak attestation for a.
Minority vote KW:
GC: Variant a may well be the initial reading because it boasts the agreement of 03, 05, and Kr in a shorter reading, and is supported by an early citation, three Old Latin manuscripts, mae, and Eth. TP: A secondary insertion of πάντες may have been motivated by the parallel in v. 12 or influenced by (ἅ)παντες at 5/16, but there is no obvious reason for an omission of the word.
[1] Cf. Ropes (13) and Metzger (252) who both see a as a reading in “the ‘Western’ text”.
