Summary of Excluded Passages

The UPDV Bible excludes or reconstructs several passages in the New Testament based on textual and historical evidence. Any teaching of the Bible which depends solely on these passages as a source should be re-evaluated.

Excluded or Reconstructed Passages

The Book of Matthew — Reconstructed using existing Matthew material supplemented with text from Mark and Luke. Chapters and verses renumbered. See The Book of Matthew.

Mark 16:9–20 — Already excluded in the Critical Text. The earliest Greek manuscripts (Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus) end Mark at 16:8.

Mark 14:28 and 16:7 — See Variant Exceptions for details.

Luke Chapters 1 and 2 — Excluded based on evidence these chapters were not in the original gospel account. See The Gospel of Luke.

Luke 23:39–24:53 — Ending reconstructed to include only material attested by other sources. See The Gospel of Luke.

Luke Holy Spirit additions — Verses where "Holy Spirit" appears to be a later addition moved to footnotes: Luke 1:15, 1:41, 1:67, 2:25, 2:26, 2:27, 4:1, 4:14, 10:21, 11:13. See The Gospel of Luke.

John 7:37–39 — Moved to footnote. Five reasons detailed in The Gospel of John.

John 7:53–8:11 — Not part of original text (Critical Text Level A certainty).

John 14:26 — The appositive "the Holy Spirit" (τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον) is the only occurrence of this full phrase in John's Gospel and may be a marginal gloss. See The Gospel of John.

John 19:36–21:25 — Excluded as likely additions by someone other than the original author. See The Gospel of John.

The Book of Acts — Entirely excluded. See The Book of Acts.

Those referenced only in the footnotes are the verses where the UPDV follows a different reading. For a complete list, see Variant Exceptions.