John D. Schwandt reading the Nestle-Aland/United Bible Societies (NA/UBS) Text.
The NA/UBS GNT is considered the "gold standard" when it comes to the text of the New Testament.
The NA edition has lots of footnotes for textual variants...even where the difference represented by the variant is untranslatable. If you are interested in church history, and how this might have impacted the making of NT manuscripts, the NA edition is for you.
The UBS edition is aimed more at working translators, and includes mostly variants that actually could make a difference in how you translate the text.
The UBS has fewer footnotes than the NA, but the individual footnotes contain more information, to allow the translator to make an informed choice.
The text above the footnotes is identical in the NA and UBS editions.
The restrictive copyright requirements by the German Bible Society on the NA/UBS text are the reasons that everybody is producing their own GNT edition.
- English Standard Version → Tyndale House GNT
- New International Version → NIV GNT
- NET Bible → NET Bible GNT
- Society of Biblical Literature → SBLGNT
Because each of the translation committees (plus the SBL) has roughly the same philosophy when it comes to evaluating the Greek manuscript evidence, these GNTs have almost the same wording as the NA/UBS version.
But as long as the Bible translation committees can say, "We made our own decisions about the wording of the GNT that is closest to what the NT authors wrote; we didn't simply copy out the UBS version" then they are OK as pertains to copyright.
Acts 3 (UBS Edition)
1 Πέτρος δὲ καὶ Ἰωάννης ἀνέβαινον εἰς τὸ ἱερὸν ἐπὶ τὴν ὥραν τῆς προσευχῆς τὴν ἐνάτην.
2 καί τις ἀνὴρ χωλὸς ἐκ κοιλίας μητρὸς αὐτοῦ ὑπάρχων ἐβαστάζετο, ὃν ἐτίθουν καθ’ ἡμέραν πρὸς τὴν θύραν τοῦ ἱεροῦ τὴν λεγομένην Ὡραίαν τοῦ αἰτεῖν ἐλεημοσύνην παρὰ τῶν εἰσπορευομένων εἰς τὸ ἱερόν·
3 ὃς ἰδὼν Πέτρον καὶ Ἰωάννην μέλλοντας εἰσιέναι εἰς τὸ ἱερόν, ἠρώτα ἐλεημοσύνην λαβεῖν.
4 ἀτενίσας δὲ Πέτρος εἰς αὐτὸν σὺν τῷ Ἰωάννῃ εἶπεν· βλέψον εἰς ἡμᾶς.
5 ὁ δὲ ἐπεῖχεν αὐτοῖς προσδοκῶν τι παρ’ αὐτῶν λαβεῖν.
If you find him difficult to follow at full speed, here he is again at 66% of full speed.