1. Over 5800 Greek manuscripts have been discovered, containing either all of the NT or part of it. These are dated from the early 2nd century to late 14th century. The number continues to grow, as new discoveries are made.

2. The integrity of the NT is concerned with both: 1
The integrity of the NT is concerned with both: 1. The transmission of the text 2. The translation of the text

3. If we reject the authenticity of the New Testament on textual grounds, we’d also have to reject every work of antiquity prior to 1000 A.D., since there is less evidence for their authenticity than for the New Testament.
– Greg Koukl

5. 12 are identical 5 have misspelled words 1 has an inverted phrase 1 has an added ingredient 1 is incomplete, missing the bottom

6. Textual Criticism Comparing manuscripts in order to reconstruct the original document. Generally speaking, the more copies we have, and the earlier the copies, the more confidence there is in that reconstruction.

7. Textual Criticism Manuscript Autograph Extant Papyrus

10. Textual Criticism Manuscript Autograph Extant Papyrus Codex

11. Codex Sinaiticus

12. Textual Criticism Manuscript Autograph Extant Papyrus Codex Uncials Minuscules

15. Textual Criticism Manuscript Autograph Extant Papyrus Codex Uncials Minuscules

16. Surviving Manuscripts Greek: 5800+ Latin: 10,000+ Other: 9000+

17. Document or Author
Surviving
Manuscripts
Time Gap
(Earliest)
New Testament
5800 40
Josephus 9
400
Tacitus 31
Pliny the Elder
200
Titus Livius
150
Herodotus
109
1350
Julius Caesar
251
950
Plato
210
1300
Homer
1800

18. SECONDARY SOURCES Versions manuscripts in other translations hurch Fathers quotes from instructional books of early church leaders Lexicons church service books

19. If we reject the authenticity of the New Testament on textual grounds, we’d also have to reject every work of antiquity prior to 1000 A.D., since there is less evidence for their authenticity than for the New Testament.
– Greg Koukl