The writers of the NIV say that the committee urging for this new version was “not made up of official church representatives”, “was composed for the most part of biblical scholars from colleges, universities and seminaries of 1967” and they say it is written from “the best available Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek texts” but in reality it is based on the work of Wescott and Hort’s minority Greek. Wescott and Hort’s Greek is almost certainly based on the same family of manuscripts copied by Eusebius in 331 A.D. for several reasons. (1) Their readings are nearly identical, including verse changes and removals. (2) They are dated from the same time period in history. (3) They exhibit little wear indicating a lack of use likely by rejection of God’s true believers.