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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 4Extrabiblical 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).

Open verse
Full workspaceDidache 4:1

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.

1My child, thou shalt remember him that speaketh unto thee the word of God night and day, and shalt honour him as the Lord;2for whencesoever the Lordship speaketh, there is the Lord.3Moreover thou shalt seek out day by day the persons of the saints, that thou mayest find rest in their words.4Thou shalt not make a schism, but thou shalt pacify them that contend;5thou shalt judge righteously, thou shalt not make a difference in a person to reprove him for transgressions.6Thou shalt not doubt whether a thing shall be or not be.7Be not thou found holding out thy hands to receive, but drawing them in as to giving.8If thou hast ought passing through thy hands, thou shalt give a ransom for thy sins.9Thou shalt not hesitate to give, neither shalt thou murmur when giving;10for thou shalt know who is the good paymaster of thy reward.11Thou shalt not turn away from him that is in want, but shalt make thy brother partaker in all things, and shalt not say that anything is thine own.12For if ye are fellow-partakers in that which is imperishable, how much rather in the things which are perishable? Thou shalt not withhold thy hand from thy son or from thy daughter, but from their youth thou shalt teach them the fear of God.13Thou shalt not command thy bondservant or thine handmaid in thy bitterness, who trust in the same God as thyself, lest haply they should cease to fear the God who is over both of you;14for He cometh, not to call men with respect of persons, but He cometh to those whom the Spirit hath prepared.15But ye, servants, shall be subject unto your masters, as to a type of God, in shame and fear.16Thou shalt hate all hypocrisy, and everything that is not pleasing to the Lord.17Thou shalt never forsake the commandments of the Lord;18but shalt keep those things which thou hast received, neither adding to them nor taking away from them.19In church thou shalt confess thy transgressions, and shalt not betake thyself to prayer with an evil conscience.20This is the way of life.