The Text of the Gospels

A blog by James Snapp, Jr. about New Testament textual criticism, especially involving variants in the Gospels.

Friday, June 13, 2025

John 7:46 - Neither Shortest Nor Longest

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In his obsolete Textual Commentary of the Greek New Testament , regarding the end of John 7:46 Bruce Metzger briefly stated, "The crisp...
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Monday, June 2, 2025

John 8:44 - An Anti-Marcionite Deletion in Family 13

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  Family 13  is a small cluster of manuscripts notable (or notorious) for having unusual liturgically influenced readings such as the additi...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

KJV Supporters Ask: Who Isn't Listening to Whom?

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Although to my way of thinking, dogmatic KJV-Onlyism is more akin to a mental condition than a scientifically tenable Bibliological position...
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Thursday, May 15, 2025

John 13:2 - When's Suppertime?

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“It’s a Frankentext.” That’s one of the objections made against the UBS/Nestle-Aland compilation:  in hundreds of verses, if the UBS compila...
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Vaticanus and Sinaiticus: How Closely Connected?

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Almost as soon as pages of the Gospels in Codex Sinaiticus were brought to the attention of European scholars, its textual affinities to the...
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Friday, April 4, 2025

Lectionary 1043

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Lectionary 1043 is a fragment assigned to the 400s, making it among the earliest lectionaries in existence.  It resides in Vienna at the Aus...
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Tuesday, April 1, 2025

The Trebizond Time Capsule: What We Know So Far

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  As many Turkish news outlets already reported last week, a significant discovery was made in Trabzon, Turkey following a minor earthquake:...
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