This verse is found in the standard Greek text prepared by Erasmus, the Textus Receptus, but was not included until the third edition because it was not present in any of the manuscripts with which he worked prior to that edition. It is found in four or five Greek manuscripts, the earliest of which dates from the 14th century, and as a marginal note in another five to which the note was added in the 15th or 16th century, many years after the original, but it is not present in hundreds of other Greek manuscripts both uncial (ancient) and minuscule (mediaeval), nor is it found in the ancient versions: the Arabic, Aramaic, Armenian, Ethiopic, Georgian, Slavic, or Syriac. The reading appears in the Latin Vulgate (Jerome’s translation of the Greek into Latin) in manuscripts dating from 5th to 7th century, and is present in 95% of Vulgate manuscripts though not in the earliest Latin texts. Other standard Greek texts omit from “in heaven …” (verse 7) to “… on earth” (verse 8), resulting in the reading “For there are three that bear record, the Spirit, the water and the blood: and these three agree in one. ”