Did the early Christian communities apply Jesus's teaching to the problems they faced or alter the facts to fit their agendas?

Can we be confident that we have the original text of the Gospels? How does it compare to other ancient documents?

This video examines the historical evidence that Jesus performed miracles.

The way the Gospel accounts use the right names for people shows that they were about real people, based on reliable information.

This video describes the discovery of the earliest copy of part of John's Gospel, the 'John Rylands Fragment'.

The way the Gospel accounts use correct place names shows that they were based on reliable information from first hand testimony.

How big are the differences between the hand-written copies of the Gospels' accounts of Jesus? Do these undermine what we can know about…