Sabbath and Week?

[HARK!]

You mean Yeshua, right?

When an unknown author adds words to the words of Yahshua; I don't consider those added words to be the words of Yahshua.

 

[Lulav]

When an unknown author adds words to the words of Yahshua; I don't consider those added words to be the words of Yahshua.

Or puts words in his mouth, s2s

 

[daq]

Yes, I did some more research, it seems that the copyists frequently inserted material derived from other Gospel accounts.

I also read where it was added to the 'fasting' part.

Fasting may have been added to the Mark version because it also does not show up in the western text type. However the problem with ignoring the Matthew 17:21 statement on the grounds that it was added, just because it doesn't show up in the older texts which we currently have, (and it may even have been omitted from that text type at a very early point), is that the statement is indeed recorded in the Mark account which is surely the same occasion by the obvious contexts.

If we say that because the statement in question isn't found in the western text type it must be spurious, or was added, and should be ignored, then that isn't all that needs to be left out or ignored because it is contained there as part a response to the same question from the talmidim which is entirely omitted in Mark.

Mark doesn't say anything about a lack of faith: should we therefore also leave out the little faith statement contained in Matthew 17:20? These two passages fit together like hand in glove when combined, (which is indeed what one must necessarily do with all the companion passages in all of the Gospel accounts if one desires to gain the most complete picture in each circumstance). I'll quote the ASV because it omits the statement from Matthew, (because it reads from the western text type), and leaves out the word for fasting in the Mark account.

Matthew 17:19-23 ASV
19 Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast it out?
20 And he saith unto them, Because of your little faith: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
21 - - -
22 And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be delivered up into the hands of men;
23 and they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised up. And they were exceeding sorry.

Mark 9:28-31 ASV
28 And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, How is it that we could not cast it out?
29 And he said unto them, This kind can come out by nothing, save by prayer.
30 And they went forth from thence, and passed through Galilee; and he would not that any man should know it.
31 For he taught his disciples, and said unto them, The Son of man is delivered up into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and when he is killed, after three days he shall rise again.

The Mark 9:29 statement clearly belongs at Matthew 17:21, according to the context, whether it was originally there in Matthew or not. Why? Because that is where Mark places it: but Mark leaves out the little faith portion of the more complete answer found in Matthew 17:20.