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Old 12-16-2006, 05:12 PM   #1
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If you could have the verifiable, ascertainable, indubitable original text of just one chapter of the New Testament, which chapter would that be and why?

(Yes, you may speak of a 'section' more generally if you wish--I know the chapters are not original divisions.)

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Roughly in order of precedence:

1. Mark 16.1 to the end of the book, wherever that might be.
2. John 20.30 to the end of the book, wherever that might be.
3. Q 1.1 to the end of the book, wherever that might be. (Is that cheating? )
4. Romans 14.23 to the end of the book, wherever that might be.
5. Luke 24.
6. 2 Corinthians 6.
7. The second half of Acts.

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3. Q 1.1 to the end of the book, wherever that might be. (Is that cheating? )
Yes. But the others are good choices.

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The fragment containing I John 5:7
because Newton thought it important
and I respect his scholarship.


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The beginning and end of Matthew. I'd love to dispel in one shot the arguments for Matthean priority, a non-Greek original, and that the autograph was attributed to an Apostle.

I'd love it even more if it gave us a big surprise on any of those three issues.
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If you could have the verifiable, ascertainable, indubitable original text of just one chapter of the New Testament, which chapter would that be and why?
I Corinthians. If I can't have the whole book, then Chapter 15.
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Mark 14, if only for vv. 51-52.
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