It may have been this that led to the change we have already discussed in Matthew 24:36, where Jesus explicitly states that no one knows the day or the hour in which the end will come, “not even the angels of heaven nor even the Son, but the Father alone.” A significant number of our manuscripts omit “nor even the Son.” The reason is not hard to postulate; if Jesus does not know the future, the Christian claim that he is a divine being is more than a little compromised.
