Textual Variants

The textual variants in the New Testament manuscript tradition — where the manuscripts disagree, why it matters, and what the leading witnesses read.

The New Testament exists in over 5,800 Greek manuscripts. They agree on the vast majority of the text. Where they disagree, the disagreement is usually small — a preposition, a word order — but a few variants raise real questions.

The Johannine Comma (1 John 5:7). The Longer Ending of Mark (16:9-20). The Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11). This explorer walks the significant variants and their manuscript witnesses.