Episode

John's Rewritten Gospel: What Did Scribes Change?

Podcast: Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman
Published: Jun 30, 2026
Duration seconds: 2634
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Summary

Did you know that scribes made changes to all of the books of the New Testament? Some of them were accidental, but some of them were very deliberate. The gospel of John is no exception - but what was changed, and why?