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How We Know We Can Trust the Manuscripts of the Bible

Key Verses Ezra 7:6; Isaiah 40:8; Acts 15:21; Colossians 4:16
Time 1513 BCE to today

Learning Point

  • In recording God’s word, The Manuscripts that provide those words are something we need to be able to trust as accurate and a source of truth.
  • Carefully copied by the Israelites and then Christians, the vast amount of manuscripts, and the accuracy they show, allow us to be confident in Jehovah’s Words.
  • Overview
Luke 13:29-35 and 14:10 in a partially damaged Greek manuscript.
Austrian National Library, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Fun Facts

  • The Dead Sea Scrolls help us to see there was no change in the text of the Hebrew Scriptures over a thousand years.
  • We have copies of the gospel of John written within two or three decades of John writing them.
  • We can create a master text of manuscripts by comparing what we have to provide a reliable source for translators to use to translate the Bible.

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