The New Testament of Erasmus provoked critical responses that focused on a number of verses, including his text and translation decisions on , , , and . The absence of the comma from the first two editions received a sharp response from churchmen and scholars, and was discussed and defended by Erasmus in the correspondence with Edward Lee and Diego López de Zúñiga (Stunica), and Erasmus is also known to have referenced the verse in correspondence with Antoine Brugnard in 1518. The first two Erasmus editions only had a small note about the verse. The major Erasmus writing regarding comma issues was in the "Annotationes" to the third edition of 1522, expanded in the fourth edition of 1527 and then given a small addition in the fifth edition of 1535.