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Who Changed the Bible, and Why?

Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman

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Does the New Testament Really Exist?

There are some of these changes that it's clear somebody's changed the text. Do those changes then make it into the New Testament as we have it as it is currently read in churches? Oh, definitely. There are a number of manuscripts including their oldest and best manuscripts that don't have those verses about Jesus sweating blood and an angel comforting him. And so scholars have to decide. Did somebody add those verses to an account that did not have them or to describe take away those verses, delete them from an accounts that did have them.

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