Quotations of the New Testament by Early Church Leaders

Even if all the manuscripts were destroyed, the New Testament text could be reproduced almost entirely from quotations of it in the writings of the early Church leaders. To date, over a million quotations from the New Testament by leaders of the early Church have been cataloged.

Author (Date)	Gospels	Acts	PaulineEpistles	GeneralEpistles	Revelation	Totals
Justin Martyr (100–165)	268	10	43	6	3	330
Irenaeus (c.125-202)	1,038	194	499	23	65	1,819
Clement (150-215)	1,107	44	1,127	207	11	2,406
Origen (185-254)	9,231	349	7,778	399	165	17,992
Tertullian (160-220)	3,822	502	2,609	120	205	7,258
Hippolytus (170-236)	734	42	387	27	188	1,378
Eusebius (263-339)	3,258	211	1,592	88	27	5,176