WORKSHEET FOR TEXTUAL VARIANT ANALYSIS

PASSAGE:	APPARATUS USED:

CLASSIFICATION OF WITNESSES

Variant

Readings

.

.	Alexandrian

(Aland I-II)	Western

(Aland IV)	Unclassified

(Aland III)	Byzantine

(Aland V)

EVALUATION OF EXTERNAL EVIDENCE

1.	Date.

2.	Geographical Distribution.

3.	Textual Relationships.

Summary of the External Evidence

EVALUATION OF THE INTERNAL EVIDENCE

1.	Transcriptional Probabilities, i.e. what scribes likely did when copying the N.T.

(1)	Shorter/Longer Reading.

(2)	Reading Different from Parallel.

(3)	More Difficult Reading.

(4)	Reading Which Best Explains Origin of Other(s).

2.	Intrinsic Probabilities, i.e. what the author himself likely wrote.

Summary of Internal Evidence

CONCLUSION