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  3. Hover a verse number in the passage to open a manuscript list and timeline.
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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.

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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 11Extrabiblical 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 11:1

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1Whosoever therefore shall come and teach you all these things that have been said before, receive him;2but if the teacher himself be perverted and teach a different doctrine to the destruction thereof, hear him not;3but if to the increase of righteousness and the knowledge of the Lord, receive him as the Lord.4But concerning the apostles and prophets, so do ye according to the ordinance of the Gospel.5Let every apostle, when he cometh to you, be received as the Lord;6but he shall not abide more than a single day, or if there be need, a second likewise;7but if he abide three days, he is a false prophet.8And when he departeth let the apostle receive nothing save bread, until he findeth shelter;9but if he ask money, he is a false prophet.10And any prophet speaking in the Spirit ye shall not try neither discern;11for every sin shall be forgiven, but this sin shall not be forgiven.12Yet not every one that speaketh in the Spirit is a prophet, but only if he have the ways of the Lord.13From his ways therefore the false prophet and the prophet shall be recogni14And no prophet when he ordereth a table in the Spirit shall eat of it;15otherwise he is a false prophet.16And every prophet teaching the truth, if he doeth not what he teacheth, is a false prophet.17And every prophet approved and found true, if he doeth ought as an outward mystery typical of the Church, and yet teacheth you not to do all that he himself doeth, shall not be judged before you;18he hath his judgment in the presence of God;19for in like manner also did the prophets of old time.20And whosoever shall say in the Spirit, Give me silver or anything else, ye shall not listen to him;21but if he tell you to give on behalf of others that are in want, let no man judge him.