What is the "Majority" Text?    The manuscript of the Traditional Received Text (Textus Receptus), is also called the Byzantine Text or the Majority Text because it is based on the vast majority of manuscripts still in existence.   5200 extant (existing) New Testament MSS are in agreement with the text now known as Textus Receptus, which is...   The Text which underlies the New Testament of the King James Bible. In his book Final Authority, William P Grady provides further interesting details about Textus Receptus, the Received Text: Quote: "For instance, over 5,000 Greek manuscripts of the New Testament exist today ranging from small fragments containing two or three verses to nearly entire Bibles. Their ages vary from the second to the sixteenth century; the manuscripts are ending with the arrival of printing.  By comparison, there exist only ten quality manuscripts of Caesar's Gallic War composed between 58-50BC… "Once again, the outstanding features of the Received Text is its high percentage of agreement among so many thousands of independent witnesses. This agreement is often placed at about 90 percent; in other words, 90 percent of all existing manuscripts agree with one another so miraculously that they are able to form their own unique text… If the critic of your King James Bible is correct in his rejection of the underlying Textus Receptus, then he is also under the greatest pressure to account for its existence. To complain of fabrication is one thing, but to account for its universal prevalence is quite another. Whenever a large body of ancient documents are seen to be in agreement, this inexplicable harmony becomes their greatest evidence for legitimacy. Simple arithmetic confirms that the nearer a particular reading is to the original, the longer the time span will be for descendants to follow. The longer the family is, the older the original source must be."

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What are the "Minority" Texts? Most modern English Bible versions are translated from Greek new Testament texts (Hort/Westcott -- Nestle/Aland) based on primarily two  sources--Vaticanus and Sinaiticus. Vaticanus and Sinaiticus are part of a group of texts called the "Minority" Texts, because the texts in agreement with them are very few in number. (These two texts do not even agree with one another). Compare this to the thousands of texts confirming the agreement and reliability of the Textus Receptus or "Majority" Text. The Minority Texts were the work of unbelieving Egyptian scribes who did not accept the Bible as the Word of God or Jesus as the Son of God. The Minority Texts abound with alterations, often a single manuscript being amended by several different scribes over a period of many years; something the Aaronic priests and Masorites would never have tolerated when making copies of the Scriptures. The Minority Texts omit approximately 200 verses from the Scriptures. This is equivalent to 1st and 2nd Peter. (pause and consider that stunning fact). The Minority Texts contradict themselves in hundreds of places. The Minority Texts are doctrinally weak and often dangerously incorrect. "The corrupt and unreliable nature of these two MSS (Sinaiticus and Vaticanus) is best summed up by one who has thoroughly examined them, John W Burgon: '   "The impurity of the text exhibited by these codices is not a question of opinion but fact...In the Gospels alone, Codex B(Vatican) leaves out words or whole clauses no less than 1,491 times. It bears traces of careless transcriptions on every page…"

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