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The fifty variants

The edition’s Manuscript Apparatus gives the evidence for fifty passages where the manuscripts differ in ways that matter. Here you can browse them one at a time, then see where each cited manuscript falls in history.

Browse the variants

Choose a passage to see the English of the verse, the competing readings, the manuscripts cited for each, and how the eleven editions compare.

    Edition agreement grid

    One row for each of the fifty passages, one column for each of the eleven editions. Each cell shows how that edition handles the passage, compared with the main text of this edition.

    Manuscript timeline

    All 125 manuscripts cited in the Manuscript Apparatus, arranged by the century given in Appendix D. Select one to see what it contains and which of the fifty variants cite it.

    Contents:

    Dates are those printed in Appendix D, taken from the Liste (Institute for New Testament Textual Research, Münster). A date belongs to the whole manuscript; a corrector’s hand can be later. Only papyri and uncials through the ninth century, plus selected minuscules through the tenth, are cited, so a manuscript’s absence from a reading says nothing about the wider tradition.