When a comparison is made of the variant readings of the
New Testament with those of other books which have survived
from antiquity, the results are little short of astounding.
For instance, although there are some 200,000 "errors" among
the New Testament manuscripts, these appear in only about
10,000 places, and only about one-sixtieth rise above the level
of trivialities. Westcott and Hort, Ezra Abbot, Philip Schaff,
and A. T. Robertson have carefully evaluated the evidence and
have concluded that the New Testament text is over 99 percent
pure. In the light of the fact that there are over 5,000 Greek
manuscripts, some 9,000 versions and translations, the evidence
for the integrity of the New Testament is beyond question.
Norman L. Geisler & William E. Nix, From God to Us
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