{{Short description|New Testament edition}} {{Infobox Bible translation | abbreviation = PT |NT_published = 1904 | version_revised = 1907, 1912 | publisher = Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople | religious_affiliation = Eastern Orthodox Church | textual_basis = Byzantine | language = Koine Greek | website = {{URL|https://www.goarch.org/chapel/greek-new-testament}} | john_3:16 = "οὕτω γὰρ ἠγάπησεν ὁ Θεὸς τὸν κόσμον, ὥστε τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ τὸν μονογενῆ ἔδωκεν, ἵνα πᾶς ὁ πιστεύων εἰς αὐτὸν μὴ ἀπόληται, ἀλλ᾽ ἔχῃ ζωὴν αἰώνιον. }} The '''Patriarchal text''',<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Karavidopoulos|first=Ioannes|title=Textual Criticism in the Orthodox Church: Present State and Future Prospects|journal=Greek Orthodox Theological Review|url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/fe9c8826aa32c3e345f14d64e480ede3/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=24942}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web|title=Greek New Testament|url=https://www.goarch.org/chapel/greek-new-testament|access-date=2021-09-27|website=Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America|language=en-US}}</ref> or '''Patriarchal Text''' ('''PT'''),<ref>Eastern-Greek Orthodox Bible, p. 14</ref> originally officially published as ''The New Testament, Approved by the Great Church of Christ'' (Greek: Ἡ Καινὴ Διαθήκη ἐγκρίσει τῆς Μεγάλης τοῦ Χριστοῦ Ἐκκλησίας),<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Karavidopoulos|first=Ioannes D.|title=The Ecumenical Patriarch's 1904 New Testament Edition and Future Perspectives|journal=Scra Scripta|url=http://sacrascripta.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/publicatii/sacra_scripta/2012/KARAVIDOPOULOS%20-%20SACRA%20SCRIPTA%201_2012-2.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Το Πατριαρχικό Κείμενο - Καινή Διαθήκη (Έκδοση Αντωνιάδη, 1904)|url=https://ebible.gr/pt/profile.html|access-date=2021-08-16|website=ebible.gr|language=en-us}}</ref> is an edition of the New Testament published by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople on 22 February 1904.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=The Patriarchal Greek New Testament (PATr)|url=https://www.logos.com/product/32420/the-patriarchal-greek-new-testament|access-date=2021-07-22|website=www.logos.com}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> Two revised editions of the PT were later printed by the Ecumenical Patriarchate, in respectively 1907 and 1912.<ref name=":2" />

The PT is also known as the '''Antoniades-text'''<ref name=":2" /> (after Professor Vasileios Antoniades), or '''Patriarchal Greek New Testament'''.<ref name=":0" />

The PT is entirely in Koine Greek. There is no Greek New Testament text accepted by everyone within the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Patriarchal text is no exception.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Bible: Its Original Languages and English Translations|url=https://www.goarch.org/-/the-bible-its-original-languages-and-english-translations|access-date=2021-09-27|website=Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America|language=en-US}}</ref> The text-type of the PT is Byzantine.

== History == With the growth of textual criticism in the 18th and 19th century,<ref name=":1" /> and particularly the rival eclectic text-type,<ref name=":0" /> the Patriarch Constantine V of Constantinople created a committee in 1899<ref name=":1" /> to examine the manuscript tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church.<ref name=":0" /> The committee consisted of Metropolitan Michael Kleovoulos of Sardis, Metropolitan Apostolos Christodoulou of Stavroupoli and Professor Vasileios Antoniades of the Theological School of Halki, who personally studied the 45 texts from Mount Athos and Constantinople.<ref name=":1" /> The commission aimed for the creation of a standardized New Testament in the Greek Language to reconstruct the ancient documents from the Church's ecclesiastical history.<ref name=":0" />

The Patriarchal text was published in 1904.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":4" /> Later revised editions were made in 1907<ref name=":2" /> and 1912,<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> the latter made by Professor Vasileios Antoniades of the Theological School of Halki.<ref name=":0" />

Today the Patriarchal text is commonly used in Greece, with a modified text fixing errors from the 1912 version, is published by the Apostoliki Diakonia,<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":3">{{Cite web|title=Corrections to the Antoniades Patriarchal Greek Text of the New Testament|url=https://www.ellopos.com/blog/1604/corrections-to-the-antoniades-patriarchal-greek-text-of-the-new-testament/|access-date=2021-08-15|website=ELLOPOS BLOG|language=en-US}}</ref> which is the official publishing house of the Church of Greece.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Apostoliki Diakonia of the Orthodox Christian Church of Greece|url=https://www.publishersglobal.com/directory/publisher-profile/1441|access-date=2021-07-22|website=PublishersGlobal.com}}</ref> Other publishers publish the Patriarchal text as well.<ref name=":1" />

== Textual characteristics == The text-type of the PT is Byzantine and uses 116 documents used in the Eastern Orthodox Church lectionaries,<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> 45 of which are from Mount Athos and Constantinople, with the rest coming from Athens and Jerusalem. The source texts used date from 9-16th centuries, with a majority coming from the 10-14th centuries.<ref name=":1" />

The Patriarchal edition of Byzantine text (1904) published in 2020 by the Hellenic Bible Society (Ελληνική Βιβλική Εταιρία) includes the Johannine Comma (1 John 5.7-8),<ref>{{Cite book |title=Η Καινή Διαθήκη |publisher=Ελληνική Βιβλική Εταιρία |year=2020 |isbn=978-618-5078-45-4}}</ref> but it is also disputed because the publisher combines the sources to create a slightly different version from the Byzantine Text 1904.{{citation needed|date=April 2026}}

== Translations into English == The Patriarchal text has been translated into English and used by certain Eastern Orthodox Bibles in that language. The ''Eastern / Greek Orthodox Bible'' uses the Patriarchal text as the basis of its New Testament translation.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Eastern / Greek Orthodox Bible: New Testament |year=2013 |isbn=978-1481917650 |editor-last=Cleenewerck |editor-first=Laurent |page=17}}</ref>

== See also ==

* Gospel riots

== References == <references />

== Further reading ==

* {{Cite book|last=Stanojević|first=Jovan|url=|title=Orthodox New Testament textual scholarship: Antoniades, lectionaries, and the Catholic epistles|date=2021|publisher=Gorgias Press|isbn=978-1-4632-4267-1|series=Texts and Studies (Third Series) 26|location=Piscataway, NJ|oclc=1237396080}}

== External links ==

* [https://www.goarch.org/chapel/greek-new-testament Patriarchal text in original Koine Greek]

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