chapter-level decision records generated from the live translation registry
The evidence beneath the English
Every consequential choice
leaves a record.
John, Mark, Matthew, and Luke were developed through direct Greek analysis, lexical work, and manuscript comparison. Where surviving witnesses materially disagree, the competing Greek readings and their effect on English remain open to the reader.
public provenance schema, designed to remain machine-readable and auditable
standardized inspectable Greek reference edition
Textual basis
SBL Greek New Testament
Edited by Michael W. Holmes. The project's standardized, publicly inspectable Greek reference edition. It is not presented as retroactive proof that every existing chapter originated from one uniform printed edition.
This is an honest reference claim, not a retroactive claim that all completed work began from one uniform printed edition. Material manuscript forks remain independently documented at the reading they affect.
Translation record
John 1
134 records214 records313 records415 records513 records617 records711 records89 records911 records1018 records1119 records1223 records1321 records1422 records1523 records1625 records1722 records1827 records1930 records2026 records2125 records
john.1.witness18
μονογενὴς θεός / ὁ μονογενὴς υἱός
TEXTGRAMMARTRANSLATIONmoderate confidence
Which surviving reading should stand in John 1:18?
P66, P75, Sinaiticus and Vaticanus support forms of ‘monogenēs God.’ A broad later tradition reads ‘the monogenēs Son.’ The difference may have been encouraged by the similar sacred abbreviations for God and Son.
Why this default
The default selects the difficult and very early theos reading, then renders monogenēs as relational uniqueness. The text and its English syntax remain separately visible in the alternatives.
Evidence
ExternalTheos has exceptionally early Alexandrian support; huios is widespread in the later Greek tradition.
InternalTheos is the harder expression and may have been replaced by the familiar Johannine title ‘the unique Son’; sacred-name abbreviations also made accidental exchange possible.
Project defaultthe unique one, God
Project default · earliest major Greek witnesses
Witnessesθεός · P66, P75, א*, B, C*Alternativeunique God
Monogenēs directly modifies God
Witnessesθεός · P66, P75, א*, B, C*Alternativethe unique Son
Major alternative manuscript reading
Witnessesυἱός · A, C³, Θ, Ψ, family 1/13, Byzantine traditionAlternativethe monogenēs [God/Son]
Variant remains visible in-line
WitnessesDisplay option · presents both surviving readingsRecord integrity
One registry drives both the reader and this record.
The manifest is regenerated from the translation source before every production build. Its source digest is 450adc54c1fc782fbae5e9ed6a640a2ae0e3be080722ac134c84e1248c2a312a.
Decision-level revision history begins with this ledger. Earlier development is not reconstructed into false precision; future material changes can be appended to the relevant record with their reason and date.