Updated American Standard Version
Giving Bible readers what God said not what translators think God meant
Explore New Testament textual commentary, explaining variant readings, manuscript evidence, scribal habits, translation choices, and exegetical decisions behind passages carefully.
Matthew 21’s earliest witnesses favor the harder, shorter readings, yielding a coherent text and bracketing 21:44 on the authority of 𝔓104.
Matthew 20’s earliest text omits later harmonizations, preserving Matthew’s concise emphasis on grace, ransom, and messianic recognition in the Jericho healing.
Matthew 19’s original wording emerges by weighing early Alexandrian witnesses first, exposing later LXX and Synoptic harmonizations without losing Matthean brevity.
A verse-by-verse textual analysis of Matthew 18 revealing early scribal habits, harmonizations, and interpolations based on strong manuscript evidence.
Alexandrian documentary evidence clarifies Matthew 17’s original text, exposing harmonizations and clarifications while preserving Matthew’s distinctive diction.
Textual commentary on Matthew 16 examining major variants, including the debated “red sky” saying and scribal expansions in key verses.
A comprehensive textual analysis of Matthew 15 reveals early manuscript support for the original readings and common scribal expansions or harmonizations.
Explore the textual variations in this intriguing New Testament passage and their implications.
Exploring the mysterious additions in scripture that challenge believers' understanding.
This article discusses a textual variant in Matthew 14:29 regarding Peter walking on water. Two readings are analyzed: the Alexandrian reading, supported by early and reliable manuscripts, and the later Byzantine reading. Internal and external evidence favor the Alexandrian reading, suggesting it is the original and more likely version.
