How Additions Entered the New Testament—Explanations, Harmonizations, and Expanded Readings

Examine how explanations, parallel passages, familiar formulas, and repeated language produced secondary New Testament readings.

Earlier Witnesses, Stronger Evidence—Recovering Readings Older Than the Textus Receptus

Explore how early papyri, major codices, ancient translations, and Christian quotations illuminate the original New Testament text.

Trace the editorial work of Erasmus, Stephanus, and Beza behind the Greek editions used by the King James translators.

Learn why the inspiration of Scripture must be distinguished from the fallible work of copyists, editors, and translators.

Discover why disputed verses must be judged by the original text rather than by their presence in a familiar English Bible.

Erasmus’s Greek New Testament equipped Reformation translators while transmitting limitations that shaped the later Textus Receptus.

Examine the ancient testimony for Matthew’s Hebrew Gospel and the eight-year manuscript tradition behind the proposed date of 41 CE.

The manuscript evidence supports strong confidence in the New Testament, while the precise 99.99% claim requires careful qualification.

Burgon and Hills elevated the traditional printed text above early manuscript evidence, but Scripture grants no translation textual perfection.

Early papyri and Alexandrian codices lack distinctively Byzantine expansions, harmonizations, and conflations, revealing their later origin.