Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why

by Bart D. Ehrman

Scholars differ significantly in their estimates—some say there are 200,000 variants known, some say 300,000, some say 400,000 or more!

There are more variations among our manuscripts than there are words in the New Testament.

Greek manuscripts were all written in scriptuo continua—with no punctuation, for the most part, or even spaces between words.