Updated American Standard Version
Giving Bible readers what God said not what translators think God meant
The Sahidic Coptic version supports early Alexandrian readings and strengthens confidence in the documentary basis of the critical Greek New Testament.
Gospel quotations confirm the early authority, use, and textual stability of the four canonical Gospels in the second century.
Minuscule 1739 is a tenth-century manuscript whose Pauline text preserves a far older and highly valuable line of transmission.
Family 1739 preserves an ancient Pauline text and repeatedly confirms the early Alexandrian line represented by P46, Vaticanus, and Sinaiticus.
Codex Bezae in Acts preserves an early but expansive Western text, rich in explanatory readings yet usually secondary to the earlier Alexandrian witnesses.
Matthew 16:4 originally read “the sign of Jonah”; “the prophet” is a later scribal clarification and likely a harmonization to Matthew 12:39.
The Bible does not command snake handling. It condemns testing Jehovah and shows serpent protection as exceptional, not a worship practice.
Matthew 16:2b–3a is a secondary interpolation, added to clarify Jesus’ reply and influenced by Luke 12:54–56 rather than written by Matthew.
Matthew 15:39 preserves “Magadan,” not “Magdala,” because the earliest and strongest witnesses support the harder reading.
Matthew 15:31 most likely originally read “the mute speaking,” a vivid and publicly observable miracle that led the crowd to glorify the God of Israel.
