This paper examines all of the second- and third-century apocryphal gospels to illustrate their relationship to the Greek text of the New Testament. With a few noteworthy exceptions, there is a surprising dearth of actual citations of the Greek New Testament in these apocryphal documents. The major exceptions include a number of fragmentary Greek papyri and the Protevangelium of James. The vast majority of determinable instances demonstrate that the apocryphal texts are derived from the canonical Greek New Testament.