Welcome to Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman.

The only show, where a six-time New York Times best-selling author and world-renowned Bible scholar

uncovers the many fascinating, little-known facts about the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the rise of Christianity. I'm your host, Megan

Lewis. Let's begin. Hello everyone and welcome back to misquoting Jesus. The textual

variations exist in the manuscripts of the New Testament. It's probably not new information for

anyone, especially if you're watching this podcast or listening to this podcast.

But how do these variations change how the Gospels are understood and the message that they

convey? Why describes make these changes and how much of an impact could small changes have

on the theology espoused? We're going to take a closer look at variations found in the Gospel of Luke

and see exactly

how influential a few small words can be.

We are both still out of the country, so this is filmed at some point in the past, but we

will be back on our regular recording schedule soon.

But you're still in the UK in the future when this is airing. But how are you today when we are recording?

In the present, yeah, I'm doing well.

My grading is finished.

My grades are turned in.

And I am now at liberty to do what, you know, I do most of my life, which is watch soaps

and eat bonbons.

Having the grades tend in must be a wonderful feeling. I do not believe for one second

that you're watching soaps and eating bonbons. I never have done that, but yeah, I keep,

you know, think maybe I should. But no, I've got, this is, it's really nice to have, as we've said, a number of times,

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