Among these manuscripts there are papyrus fragments, which are the remains of the most ancient scrolls, and typically represent only a few pages of text. The majority of ancient manuscripts contain only small portions of the biblical text, like a book or a portion of a book. Out of about 500 pages in the Greek New Testament, the manuscript variations represent only about half of a page. Even though those variations do cause some confusion about the biblical text, most of the manuscript readings are in agreement. Since these copies are hand-written, there are variations in spelling, word order, and sentence structure among them. No one has the original articles, but thousands of ancient copies have been discovered. The Old Testament was written in Hebrew, and the New Testament was written in Greek.
Our knowledge of the original text of the Bible comes from ancient hand-written manuscripts.
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