Lucas 2

13 Suddenly a multitude of the heavenly army was with the angel praising God and saying,

14 "Glory to God in the highest

and on earth peace, good will toward mankind!"*"Good will toward mankind"—what greater proof of God’s good will could there be than the whole plan of salvation, the center piece of which was the incarnation! "Good will toward mankind" reflects some 1700 Greek manuscripts; only six known Greek manuscripts, of objectively inferior quality, read "among those with whom He is pleased" (as in NIV, NASB, LB, TEV, etc.); the New Living Translation favors us with a footnote: "Some manuscripts read… goodwill among people"—by ‘some’ they mean (1,700 against six! [how could the editors be so perverse?]).