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The 1881 Westcott and Hort Critical Text is now available on this site. This contains their critical text and the Authorized Version of 1611, according to the front matter of the book.  Their title includes the words "original Greek", but it very much is not the original Greek since it includes capitalization, diacritics, punctuation, hyphens, bracketed words, and spacing.

This site now has a copy of The Parallel New Testament Greek and English from Oxford University Press, 1896.  This text contains the Authorized Version (KJV), the English Revised Version, and a Greek text based the third edition of Stephanus published in 1550.  The two streams of Greek texts are the received stream via Erasumus/Beza/Elzevir/Stephanus/Scrivener and the critical stream via Westcott/Hort/Tischendorf.  Texts within the same stream can differ, and other than Erasumus, I prefer the Stephanus.  The reason is that Erasmus’ text lacked verse numbers and Stephanus added them.  Stephanus is thus the oldest received text stream associated with the time of the publication of the KJV.  Scrivener was late to the game, and while it is nice to have a newer Greek text in that stream, any new Greek text copywritten after the arrival of Tischendorf puts me off.

This is the Textus Receptus, also called the received text.

There are some differences in received text versions, some which are significant such as without where with should be and vice versa. [1]

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1. “Which Edition of the Received Text Should We Use?” Accessed July 12, 2025. https://www.wayoflife.org/reports/which_edition_of_received_text_should_we_use.html.

The Interlinear Literal Translation of the Greek New Testament with the Authorized Version (1897). This is an interlinear Bible with the Authorized Version (King James) along with a Greek text along with it.

Holy Bible – Geneva Bible – 1579