 actually there are three who bear witness the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree as one. The words in italics are only found in five late Greek manuscripts less than 1 of the total and part of the Latin tradition, from which they came. To be more precise, the manuscripts are: 6116th, 62914th, 91816th, 2318 18th, 2473 17th, wherein the cursives in all differ from each other; the two that agree verbatim with TR were probably copied from it. The only one that is clearly early enough to have served as TRs exemplar, 629, is far too differentit lacks the seven last words in TR, omits another five, changes five and adds two19 out of 40 words is too much; the is not based on cursive 629, so it must be a translation from the Latin or its exemplar is lost. The shorter reading makes excellent sense. Those who make the three heavenly witnesses a litmus test for orthodoxy are either ignorant or perverse or both. 