Novum Testamentum Graece

What you're looking at on screen is a critical apparatus.

You can see the editor's reconstructed text on top, and the small text in the footnotes demonstrates the editor's evidence Almost all modern translations not based on the Textus Receptus use the latest edition of Nestle-Aland's Novum Testamentum Graeca, first published in the late 1800s but has been updated multiple times over the next century.

So how does all of this affect translators? The distinction between a translation using the Textus Receptus and one using a critical edition is pretty clear when we look at big differences between the translations.

For example, in most surviving manuscripts of John, there's a story about Jesus and a woman caught in adultery, but this story is not found in our oldest and typically most reliable manuscripts of John.

Let's return to the example about Jesus being compassionate or angry in the first chapter of Mark.

The King James Version describes Jesus as compassionate, which follows the majority of manuscripts, the so-called Byzantine tradition.

Most of the earliest manuscripts also agree, so for this verse, the editors of Nestle-Aland's 28th critical edition follow the Textus Receptus and print the word meaning compassionate.

And so the ESV, NRSV, and most other modern translations describe Jesus as moved with pity or something like that.

These are what our English translations are based on.

But to put together something like a critical edition of the Greek New Testament, this is the Nese- Nestle-Aland, uh, 28.

There's also the United Bible Societies.

But to put these together requires scholars such as yourself working very diligently, going through all the manuscripts, looking for the similarities and differences, and trying to reconstruct what was most likely the original text a, as far as we know.

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in the, um, medieval Byzantine era, which says, "I live by, uh, the faith of the Son of God." And, um, but, uh, but when you look at the evidence, it's finely balanced, but, but it looks like, um, uh, the earliest reconstructable text that we have is by faith of God and Christ.

And I've been told it's gonna be in the Nestle-Aland 30th edition-

So that-

Now, I absolutely reject the textual criticism that's presented here, where they claim that the oldest readings and the best readings reject the word us, and they, uh, claim that the critical text rejects us, which it's true, it does.

Um, the reason I reject this is that if you actually look at the textual evidence, go, go right to the critical text, go right to the apparatus in the UBS text, go right to the apparatus in the Nestle-Aland text, and you're gonna quickly determine, if you know how to use the apparatus, that the best attested reading by far is the us reading of the King James Bible and the New King James Bible.

It should read, "For you were slain, and have redeemed us to God by your blood." If you want to go into this subject r- in a very deep way, check out my video on Revelation 5:9, where I cover this in a very broad and deep way.

But for now, I'll just abbreviate it.