The point, dear sir or ma’am, is that the punctuation is CONSISTENT in all, ALL, the instances of Jesus saying “Verily, I say unto thee...”
Yet, in THIS instance you wish to claim there is an error, to fit your man-made ‘idea’. Sorry, it does not hold water.
You may choose to believe that the blood that Jesus shed is insufficient to provide all the cleansing your soul needs, but, I for one know that it is exceedingly sufficient.
Verily I say unto you.
THERE WAS NO PUNCTUATION IN THE ORIGINALS.
And just because the punctuation is consistent doesn’t mean a thing.
Jesus died for our sins. Period. And I am so thankful for that.
It most certainly does not mean that I have never sinned.
“Protestants deny the existence of purgatory because they say that the only cleansing needed for salvation is the cleansing in the precious Blood of Jesus, poured out on the Cross for sinners. Catholics agree. The holy souls in purgatory are not experiencing a different or additional cleansing, but only the final effects of the one cleansing in the blood of Christ, since nothing unclean shall enter heaven (Rev. 21:27). Those who are being purified beyond death are not the unbelieving and the impenitent, who will go to hell; the souls in purgatory are those who have already been justified by grace and are at peace with God at their life’s end.
Protestants protest against purgatory, yet they have no objection to the idea that for their sins God sometimes allows Christians to endure both temporal judgments and deprivation of spiritual consolations. For example, the Presbyterian Westminster Confession (1646) says that true Christian believers may, through the temptation of Satan and of the world, the prevalence of corruption remaining in them, and the neglect of the means of their preservation, fall into grievous sins; and for a time continue therein: whereby they incur God’s displeasure, and grieve his holy Spirit; come to be deprived of some measure of their graces and comforts; have their hearts hardened, and their consciences wounded; hurt and scandalize others, and bring temporal judgments upon themselves (from John H. Leith, ed., Creeds of the Churches: A Reader in Christian Doctrine in the Bible to the Present (Richmond, Virginia: John Knox Press, 1973), p. 212). The Baptist Abstract of Principles (1859) says in a similar vein that believers may “fall, through neglect and temptation, into sin, whereby they grieve the Spirit, impair their graces and comforts, bring reproach on the Church, and temporal judgments on themselves . . . “ (Leith, p. 342).”
http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/1998/9801fea2.asp