| About | This is the Koine version of the 2022 Statistical Restoration (SR) Greek New Testament with Apparatus by Alan Bunning and the Center for New Testament Restoration (CNTR). To be as authentic as possible to our oldest manuscripts, this module uses Koine spelling, nomina sacra abbreviations with an overline, no accents, no punctuation and no paragraph breaks. (Unfortunately I couldn't find an easy way to remove spaces between words to be really authentic!) Words are tagged with Strongs numbers and Robinson's morphological codes, converted from Bunning's "expanded Strongs numbers" and morphological codes, in order to be compatible with Sword dictionary modules. Please let me know if you find mistakes.
For an even more authentic Koine experience, read this with the KoineGreekPlus font (http://tiny.cc/KoineGreekFonts). This font is the same as the CNTR Koine font (https://github.com/Center-for-New-Testament-Restoration/font) but has a longer overline for nomina sacra and detaches the Koine glyphs from the Latin characters so you can write notes in English with the same font. And if you really want the full papyrus experience, try the KoineGreekPapyrus font in that directory which eliminates spaces between words like in papyri! It's great training for reading real papyri (or just great fun for nerds like me).
The apparatus is provided in footnotes. Symbols and abbreviations correspond to CNTR's Apparatus tool on their website. The apparatus and SR are constantly updated at the CNTR. While the main text is the 2022 public version of the SR (https://github.com/Center-for-New-Testament-Restoration/SR), the apparatus data were kindly provided by Alan Bunning on June 9, 2026 and reflect an updated version of the SR on that date. I made every effort to programatically match the notes with the correct words despite the mismatched versions. Please let me know if you find mistakes.
Having trouble reading Koine spelling? Try learning Dr. Randall Buth's phonemic pronunciation system (https://www.biblicallanguagecenter.com/koine-greek-pronunciation/) which treats certain letters as the same sound (phoneme) based on spelling variations in the 1st century. I know from personal experience that his pronunciation and living language method will make reading SRKoine more natural because you will have internalized which letters sound the same.
>Note for AndBible users: v5.1.1091 and earlier has a bug where changing fonts on Ancient Greek documents (lang=grc) has no effect. Until that bug is fixed, try this hack to get the Koine font to work: plug your phone into your computer and open the new drive that appears (you might have to tap "Allow" on your phone). Navigate to "Internal storage/Android/data/net.bible.android.activity/files/mods.d". Open SRKoine.conf with a text editor. Look for "Lang=grc" and change that to "Lang=el". Restart AndBible and enjoy reading in Koine font!
About the SR: The 2022 SR is "the first computer-generated text derived directly from the earliest manuscript witnesses using an algorithmic statistical model to simulate a reasoned-eclecticism approach, weighing both external and internal evidence in an objective manner." Citation: Bunning, Alan, ed. Statistical Restoration Greek New Testament. Center for New Testament Restoration. 2022.
Last but not least, the most important credit: τισ γαρ εγνω νουν κ̅υ̅ η τισ συμβουλοσ αυτου εγενετο η τισ προεδωκεν αυτω και ανταποδοθησεται αυτω οτι εξ αυτου και δι αυτου και εισ αυτον τα παντα αυτω η δοξα εισ τουσ αιωνασ αμην
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