Johannine Comma

English

Proper noun

the Johannine Comma

1. A short phrase, included in some manuscripts of 1 John 5:7-8, whose authenticity is debated and is widely agreed to be an interpolation.

Usage notes

Its text (with the comma in bold) in the King James Bible reads:

⁷For there are three that beare record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. ⁸And there are three that beare witnesse in earth, the Spirit, and the Water, and the Blood, and these three agree in one.

Synonyms

• Comma Johanneum
• Heavenly Witnesses