08-25-2010, 11:49 PM
In The Text of the New Testament by the famous Greek scholars Kurt Aland and Barbara Aland (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Second Edition, 1989), the number of seriously variant verses among the Greek manuscripts of the New Testament is carefully documented (page 29). They define seriously variant to be two or more major word differences.
They found that 37.1% of the verses were significantly different among the Greek versions of the New Testament. Hence they found that 62.9% of the verses had less than two major differences. Among the Gospels the ratio is close to 50% of the verses that are signifcacntly different.
Of course, in addition there are many additional verses that have meaningful small diffences as well.
Otto
They found that 37.1% of the verses were significantly different among the Greek versions of the New Testament. Hence they found that 62.9% of the verses had less than two major differences. Among the Gospels the ratio is close to 50% of the verses that are signifcacntly different.
Of course, in addition there are many additional verses that have meaningful small diffences as well.
Otto