Updated American Standard Version
Giving Bible readers what God said not what translators think God meant
Papyrus 22 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by P22, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John, only containing extant John 15:25-16:2, 21–32. The manuscript has been paleographically assigned to 200-250 A.D.
Generally speaking, if either Ἰησοῦς or Χριστός was alone in a reading, the scribal tendency was to expand either of them by adding the other. It would seem that this is not the case with this verse, as we ...
Nomina Sacra (singular: nomen sacrum from Latin sacred name): In early Christian scribal practices, there was the abbreviation of several frequently occurring divine names or titles within the Greek manuscripts.
The TR WH NU reading above is supported by much more weightier witnesses P1א B C L W (f) 33 and this alone means that it …
There are several copyists in various manuscripts, who attempted to harmonize Matthew with 1 Chronicles 3:15-16 by adding another person to the genealogy, some even marking it as an insertion, letting readers know it was not original. Between Josiah and Jeconiah we find ...
Papyrus 19 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by P19, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the 250-300 A.D.
Papyrus 18 (P18) is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is similar to P9 and P24, and has the highest agreement with C followed by א and A. It is a papyrus manuscript containing the beginning of the Book of Revelation.
There are many textual variants in the Hebrew Old Testament and the Greek New Testament. What are textual variants? And how well do our modern translations inform their readers about these variants?
There could have been an accidental omission because of similarity. Then, maybe the scribe went in the other direction and purposely skipped the fourth mention of mother and Father because it was redundant. But that is unlikely the case here.
The province of Textual Criticism is the ascertainment of the true form of a literary work, as originally composed and written down by its author.