{"id":36480,"date":"2022-09-13T12:57:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T17:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/why-is-it-that-some-bible-verses-are-removed-from-the-bible-for-example-matthew-1811-john-54-are-not-in-the-niv\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T12:57:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T17:57:43","slug":"why-is-it-that-some-bible-verses-are-removed-from-the-bible-for-example-matthew-1811-john-54-are-not-in-the-niv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/why-is-it-that-some-bible-verses-are-removed-from-the-bible-for-example-matthew-1811-john-54-are-not-in-the-niv\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is it that some Bible verses are removed from the Bible?  For example, Matthew 18:11, John 5:4 are not in the NIV."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>The New Testament was written in the Greek language. In <strong>1604<\/strong> King James I ordered a more accurate translation of the existing English Bibles. The King James Bible or Authorized version was translated into English by a group of some 50 scholars. At that time, they had <strong>less than ten Greek manuscripts to work from<\/strong>, and <strong>none<\/strong> of them were from <strong>before AD 1000<\/strong>. Subsequent modern translations had thousands of manuscripts available, including complete Greek manuscripts from as early as AD 350, and some even older. <strong>Today<\/strong>, there are some <strong>5,800 Greek manuscripts of the New Testament<\/strong>, complete and partial. Therefore, current translations use older manuscripts in order to <strong>minimize textual errors<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For centuries, the Bible was copied from original manuscripts by hand by monks or scribes. Sometimes verses were miscopied (maybe the copiers were tired?); however, sometimes texts were intentionally added or supposedly &ldquo;corrected&rdquo;. Although unintentional<em> <\/em>changes account for the vast majority of textual corruption; intentional alterations also created thousands of corruptions to the text. The majority of these changes were done by scribes who either <strong>thought<\/strong> that the text they were copying had <strong>errors <\/strong>or<strong> they were attempting to clarify what they thought was the correct theological meaning<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Take for example Matthew 18:11: &ldquo;For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.&rdquo; The earliest Greek manuscripts [Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Vaticanus, and Codex Alexandrinus] do not contain this verse. Probably some scribe added the verse to make it agree with Luke 19:10. John 5:4 is also not included in early manuscripts. In this case, maybe a copyist added this thought in order to explain the event. Whatever the reasons behind the intentional additions to the manuscripts, it is still <strong>wrong to change God&rsquo;s inspired word<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Testament was written in the Greek language. In 1604 King James I ordered a more accurate translation of the existing English Bibles. The King James Bible or Authorized version was translated into English by a group of some 50 scholars. At that time, they had less than ten Greek manuscripts to work from, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/why-is-it-that-some-bible-verses-are-removed-from-the-bible-for-example-matthew-1811-john-54-are-not-in-the-niv\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why is it that some Bible verses are removed from the Bible?  For example, Matthew 18:11, John 5:4 are not in the NIV.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}