And lest anyone think, with all this talk of textual variants, that your Bible cannot be trusted heed these words of David Alan Black: These are very conservative scholars that are doing the work of textual criticism to help us have the most accurate translation of the Bible as possible. There is no plot to undermine the word of God. In order to be accurate to the original you won’t find it in your ESV Bible. And so we conclude that Matthew 17:21 was quite likely not part of the original text. And his error here was copied and copied and copied from that point forward. So what most likely happened is that a well-meaning copyist somewhere along the way put Mark 9:29 here at Matthew 17:21 to get the two gospels to square up. In fact we find that this was actually a somewhat common practice. Now is it possible that a copyists would have inserted material from Mark 9:29 to make it square with Matthew 17:21? Absolutely. Look at Mark 9:29 (even in your ESV and NIV Bibles) and you will notice a verse that sounds very similar to what was omitted in Matthew 17:21. And so why would newer manuscripts have Matthew 17:21 but older manuscripts not? Which would should we trust more? When you encounter one of these textual variants the interpreter/translator has to attempt to figure out why there is a difference in the text. When you run into one of these differences it is called a textual variant. In some places-like Matthew 17:21-the text was omitted in the older manuscript. When we discovered these ancient manuscripts we see that in a few places they didn’t square up with the existing manuscripts. In 1881 Westcott and Hort published a Greek New Testament using numerous ancient manuscripts which were not available to the original translators of the KJV-way back in 1611. If you read this in a KJV you’ll notice it simply says, “Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting”. You will notice in your ESV a little note which says, “some manuscripts insert verse 21: But this kind never comes out except by prayer and fasting”. Every one of these “missing verses” were not part of the original manuscripts.Ĭonsider Matthew 17:21 for example. So why the missing verses on your app or in your Bible? I guess I should say, there is not a crusade towards altering the Bible that Crossway’s ESV and the original NIV are part of. While one cannot deny the affiliation between Zondervan and Harper Collins, there is not a “crusade geared towards altering the Bible”. There is a crusade geared towards altering the Bible as we know it NIV and many more versions are affected. Buy and KEEP EARLIER VERSIONS AND STORE THEM.
#Esv bible history update#
All these changes occur when they ask you to update the app. Let’s not forget what the Lord Jesus said in John 10:10 (King James Version)īUY and KEEP AN EARLIER VERSION OF the BIBLE. Try and find these scriptures in NIV or ESV on your computer, phone or device right now if you are in doubt: Most of us have the Bible on our devices and phones. The NIV and ESV and other versions have also now removed 45 complete verses.
The NIV has now removed 64,575 words from the Bible including Jehovah, Calvary, Holy Ghost and omnipotent to name but a few… I’m sure you know that NIV was published by Zondervan but is now OWNED by Harper Collins, who also publishes the Satanic Bible and The Joy of Gay Sex. I’ve noticed several people post this on Facebook:
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