Comma Johanneum

![This photograph shows Greek text of 1 John 5:3–10[n 50] which is missing the Comma Johanneum. This text was published in 1524.](/Images/godic/202501/05/Comma_Johanneum_missing_NT_1524_Divinae_scripturae_veteris_nouveque_omnia4731.png")

The Comma Johanneum (or Johannine Comma or Heavenly Witnesses) is a comma (a short clause) in the First Epistle of John, 1 John 5:7–8. The scholarly consensus is that that passage is a Latin corruption that entered the Greek manuscript tradition in subsequent copies.