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  1. Choose a book and chapter using the picker at the top.
  2. Read the Berean Standard Bible text in the main column.
  3. Hover a verse number in the passage to open a manuscript list and timeline.
  4. Click a verse number or use “Full verse page” for GA lookup, commentary, Greek tools, and (on ECM books) textual apparatus.
  5. Click any manuscript siglum (e.g. 01, P46) to open its catalog record.

This book

The “Teaching of the Twelve Apostles” — a brief manual on the Two Ways, baptism, Eucharist, and church order. Some ancient lists treat the Didache as Scripture or as a catechetical appendix to Scripture. Its practical church rules made it influential in canon and liturgy debates.

The chapter view is for reading and quick manuscript discovery. Hover verse superscripts for a preview; open the verse page for full lists, timelines, and analysis tools.

Extrabiblical text

Extrabiblical writings are listed separately from the 27 NT books. Each includes a public-domain English translation plus a scholarly witness catalog — Greek papyri and codices, major versional witnesses, and inventory cross-links (LDAB, Trismegistos, P.Oxy).

Witnesses are drawn from standard scholarly catalogs (CPG, LDAB, Repertorium Kirchenväter-Papyri, and related inventories). Each entry is tagged Verified, Approx., or Tradition to show how confidently it is identified. Where fragment coverage is known, the list narrows by section — but this is still not a full critical apparatus, and scholarly totals often exceed our catalogued list.

Witness lists come from our extrabiblical catalog (Firestore + bundled JSON). Each entry is tagged Verified, Approx., or Tradition. Where fragment coverage is documented — especially for Hermas, Didache, and Thomas — the list narrows by section. Versional witnesses without unit data still appear at every address. Counts are catalogued witnesses, not the full scholarly total.

Sources

English text: Berean Standard Bible (helloao API). NT manuscript catalog and apparatus: Münster NTVMR. Extrabiblical catalog: scholarly inventories with bundled JSON + Firestore. Pre-indexed lists enable fast hover; apparatus XML is fetched live on ECM verse pages.

Extrabiblical · canon discussions

The “Teaching of the Twelve Apostles” — a brief manual on the Two Ways, baptism, Eucharist, and church order.

Some ancient lists treat the Didache as Scripture or as a catechetical appendix to Scripture. Its practical church rules made it influential in canon and liturgy debates.

English text: Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1891). Source: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Didache_(Lightfoot_translation). Reading text is a public-domain English translation for orientation — not a critical edition of the Greek or Coptic original.

Witnesses are drawn from standard scholarly catalogs (CPG, LDAB, Repertorium Kirchenväter-Papyri, and related inventories). Each entry is tagged Verified, Approx., or Tradition to show how confidently it is identified. Where fragment coverage is known, the list narrows by section — but this is still not a full critical apparatus, and scholarly totals often exceed our catalogued list.

Didache 1Extrabiblical writings are listed separately from the 27 NT books. Each includes a public-domain English translation plus a scholarly witness catalog — Greek papyri and codices, major versional witnesses, and inventory cross-links (LDAB, Trismegistos, P.Oxy).

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Full workspaceDidache 1:1

Hover a verse number in the passage to open a manuscript list and timeline. Open the workspace for GA lookup and the sample witness list — not every surviving manuscript.

1There are two ways, one of life and one of death, and there is a great difference between the two ways.2The way of life is this.3First of all, thou shalt love the God that made thee;4secondly, thy neighbour as thyself.5And all things whatsoever thou wouldest not have befal thyself neither do thou unto another.6Now of these words the doctrine is this.7Bless them that curse you, and pray for your enemies and fast for them that persecute you;8for what thank is it, if ye love them that love you? Do not even the Gentiles the same? But do ye love them that hate you, and ye shall not have an enemy.9Abstain thou from fleshly and bodily lusts.10If any man give thee a blow on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also, and thou shalt be perfect;11if a man impress thee to go with him, one mile, go with him twain;12if a man take away thy cloak, give him thy coat also;13if a man take away from thee that which is thine own, ask it not back, for neither art thou able.14To every man that asketh of thee give, and ask not back;15for the Father desireth that gifts be given to all from His own bounties.16Blessed is he that giveth according to the commandment;17for he is guiltless.18Woe to him that receiveth;19for, if a man receiveth having need, he is guiltless;20but he that hath no need shall give satisfaction why and wherefore he received;21and being put in confinement he shall be examined concerning the deeds that he hath done, and he shall not come out thence until he hath given back the last farthing.22Yea, as touching this also it is said;23Let thine alms sweat into thine hands, until thou shalt have learnt to whom to give.