Matthew 12:15

Now when Jesus learned of this, he went away from there. Great ¹  crowds ²  followed him, and he healed them all.

Mt 4:24,25; Mt 10:23; Mt 19:2; Mr 3:7-12; Mr 6:56; Lu 6:12; Lu 6:17-19; Joh 7:1; Joh 9:4; Joh 10:40-42; Joh 11:54; Ga 6:9; 1Pe 2:21

¹ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

² tc א B pc lat read only πολλοί (polloi, “many”) here, the first hand of N reads ὄχλοι (ocloi, “crowds”), while virtually all the rest of the witnesses have ὄχλοι πολλοί (ocloi polloi, “great crowds”). In spite of the good quality of both א and B (especially in combination), and the testimony of the Latin witnesses, the longer reading is most likely correct; the shorter readings were probably due to homoioteleuton.