9
The canonical text which has the most surviving attestations is the Gospel of Matthew at thirty-
three while the lowest is still six attestations.
33
Research in the Novum Testamentum Graece reports that each of the twenty-seven books
in the New Testament appears with each of the other books in the New Testament at least three
times, but typically more than this.
34
That means that each of the twenty-seven books of the New
Testament is found along with at least one other of the twenty-six New Testament books three or
more times in the form of a manuscript dating between the 2
nd
century AD and the 5
th
century
AD.
There are seventy-five different texts which have been discovered thus far that are
considered to be New Testament apocryphal texts.
35
However, in comparison to the canonical
33
Eberhard and Erwin Nestle, The Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece, 684-720. This list is the first
appendix at the back of the book. This comes from my own personal research of the appendix.
34
Eberhard and Erwin Nestle, The Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece, 684-720. This list is the first
appendix at the back of the book. This comes from my own personal research of the appendix.
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Through my research I have gathered a list of New Testament Apocrypha texts. At the present time my list
consists of the following texts: Arabic Infancy Gospel, History of Joseph the Carpenter, Life of John the Baptist,
Gospel of the Hebrews, Gospel of the Nazarenes, Gospel of the Ebionites, Gospel of Marcion, Gospel of Mani,
Gospel of Appelles, Gospel of Bardesanes, Gospel of Basilides, Gospel of Cerinthus, Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of
Peter, Gospel of Nicodemus/Acts of Pilate, Gospel of Bartholomew, Questions of Bartholomew, the Resurrection of
Jesus Christ according to Bartholomew, Diatessaron, Apocrypha of James/Secret Book of James, Book of Thomas
the Contender, Dialogue of the Savior, Gospel of Judas, Gospel of Mary, Gospel of Philip, Greek Gospel of the
Egyptians, Coptic Gospel of the Egyptians, Sophia of Jesus Christ, Gospel of Truth, Apocalypse of Peter, Gnostic
Apocalypse of Peter, Pistis Sophia, Second Treatise of the Great Seth, Apocrypha of John, Apocalypse of Paul,
Coptic Apocalypse of Paul, Trimorphic Protennoia, Acts of Andrew, Acts of Barnabas, Acts of John, Acts of the
Martyrs, Acts of Paul, Acts of Paul and Thecla, Acts of Peter, Acts of Peter and Andrew, Acts of Peter and Paul,
Acts of Peter and the Twelve, Acts of Philip, Acts of Thomas, Acts of Xanthippe, Polyxena, and Rebecca, Epistle of
Barnabas, Epistle of the Corinthians to Paul, Epistle to the Laodiceans, Epistle to Seneca the Younger, Third Epistle
to the Corinthians, Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius, Apocalypse of Thomas, Apocalypse of Stephen, First
Apocalypse of James, Shepherd of Hermas, Home Going of Mary, Falling Asleep of the Mother of God, Descent of
Mary, Book of Nepos, Didache, Liturgy of James, Prayer of the Apostle Paul, Secret Gospel of Mark, Gospel of Eve,
Gospel of the Four Heavenly Realms, Gospel of Matthias, Gospel of Perfection, Gospel of the Seventy, Gospel of
Thaddeus, Gospel of the Twelve, Memoria Apostolorum.