Textual Criticism

“While exciting and important, much about a recently published, headline-grabbing fragment is not unique.” - Text & Canon

“The majority of surviving Greek manuscripts include Mark 16:9–20 at the end of the Gospel, and the majority of Christians throughout church history have received these verses as God’s word. Nevertheless, both external and internal evidence suggest that Mark likely ended his Gospel at verse 8” - Desiring God

“A researcher from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, with the help of ultraviolet photography, was able to discover a small manuscript fragment of a Syriac translation written in the 3rd century and copied in the 6th century.” - Arkeonews

“according to Myers, this very day I carried, heard, and preached from translations based on Satan’s Bible. The Bibles I read—that is extremely similar to his—are part of a corrupt stream deriving somehow from gnostic heretics.” - Mark Ward

Launches Monday June 11

“Scrivener carefully noted 111 passages in which the KJV translators chose to follow Beza against Stephanus, 59 in which they did the opposite, and 67 in which they differed from both texts and went with some other reading.” - Mark Ward

“…ministers can err in one of two directions….such specificity that we run the risk of undermining the confidence God’s people should have in the English translations of Scripture. Or…we can gloss over important textual variants and confuse believers as to what to do with them.” - C.Leaders