Bowmans attacks on the nwt the new world translation, the bible translation by jehovahs witnesses. The new world translation on trial in the watchtowers own. Read commentary on this popular bible verse and understand the real meaning behind gods word using john gills exposition of the bible. The entire chapter john 3 interlinear greekenglish, translated word by word and with greek grammar parsing codes, free online. John 1 greek interlinear, parsed and per word translation. The next step is to enter your payment information. Westcott is the greek scholar who with hort edited the greek text of the new testament used by the jehovahs witnesses. As she wept, she bent down and looked into the tomb. This article was written many years ago, and was accurate at that time. The new world translation is a poor translation from the original koine greek. The four gospels matthew, mark, luke and john include in their passionresurrection narratives a series of episodes related to the appearances of the risen christ to his disciples. The actual wordforword rendering of the greek, which can be easily verified in the kit, is substantially.
If you loved me, you would be glad that i am going to the father, for the father is greater than i. Is the new world translation a valid version of the bible. As a result, the jehovah witness revised new world translation omits the same 17 entire verses from the new testament, plus it omits some 25 more mark 16. Words have been added, deleted, and modifications made to make the text to eliminate doctrinal difficulties and to make the text agree with their theology. The new world translation of the holy scriptures 1984 is published by jehovahs witnesses. In these episodes the disciples, after passing through a phase of doubt, unbelief, trouble, confusion and astonishment, come to the point of believing that jesus has been risen indeed. The jehovah witness revised new world translation of 20.
Theologian john ankerberg accused the new world translations translators of. Therefore, jesus is qeos to thomas in a relative sense as the father is qeos to jesus john 20. The new world translation on trial in the watchtowers own kingdom interlinear translation of the greek scriptures. Starting your free trial of bible gateway plus is easy.
Pay attention to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the holy spirit has appointed you overseers, to shepherd to congregation of god, which he purchased with the blood of his own son. Whats missing from codex sinaiticus, the oldest new. The new world translation of the holy scriptures is published by jehovahs witnesses. Youre already logged in with your bible gateway account. A downloadable kit app is now available through the watchtower website. See free pdf books for list of downloadable watchtower books quoted from here. Alsup, features rough translation, disposition, immediate context, broader context, hermeneutical bridge, and contemporary. New world translation of the holy scriptures study edition 19 we know that we originate with god, but the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one. Everyone believing that jesus is the christ has been born from god, and everyone who loves the one that caused to be born loves him who has been. No one has ever seen the father but jesus was the expression of the father, the fathers word. He is overpowered, and the glory of christ now breaks upon him in a flood.
The woman caught in adultery from john 8 is omitted in codex sinaiticus. For example the new world translation in 1 john 5 translates this same word, mistranslated in john 3. On this basis they would be able to declare that men had been and therefore were forgiven. In the bibles it is not just lord god the god, but his time table also and more, and lord, as jesus is davids lord and jesus has his lord, god and father, john 20. Jws new world translation esword modules resources. Dana and mantey, a manual grammar of the greek new testament macmillan co. The translators of the new world translation nwt almost certainly know greek better than me and are smarter than me, so maybe they had a good reason for their translation that i just cant see. Metzger on the errors of the new world translation bible research. Commentary critical and explanatory on the whole bible. Have you seen this interesting article on the new world. The watchtower society tries to distinguish between a god and the god, making only jehovah the god.
I downloaded a pdf edition of the jw new world translation of the bible. New world translation of the holy scriptures wikipedia. New world translation nwt jehovahs witnesses bible jw. The watchtower society first published the new world translation of the new testament in 1950. A n y w a y thats like drawing out the word, anyway, i am. It is improbable the coptic translators took the author of the gospel of john to mean jesus was a pagan god or usurper god in john 1. In the beginning was the word, and the word was with god, and the word was god.
Page 1 of 2 jws new world translation posted in esword modules resources. The new world translation of the holy scriptures nwt is a translation of the bible published. It has been published in whole or in part in over 160 languages. However, it is a creed never mentioned by athanasius nor his contemporaries. John 1 new world translation of the holy scriptures the word became flesh. Based on the jehovahs witness new world translation, revised 1984 edition whole bible verses deleted in the new world translation the following whole verses have been removed in the jehovahs witness. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. But he replied, unless i see the nail marks in his hands, and put my finger where the nails have been, and put my hand into his side, i will never believe.
If jesus were not truly divine as god is divine, thomas erred seriously in thus adoring him as god. Free reading plans and devotionals related to john 20. Thomas answered and said unto him, my lord and my god that thomas did not do what jesus invited him to do, and what he had made the condition of his believing, seems plain from john 20. Read and listen to the bible online, or download free audio recordings and signlanguage videos of the bible. Three verses after the account about thomas, john explained that he wrote so that people may believe that jesus is the christ the son of godnot that he is god. The new world translation of the holy scriptures is an accurate, easytoread translation of the bible. For example, the resurrection narrative at the end of mark 16. Jehovahs witness bible translation examined 4jehovah. Nor can they explain the fact that that the nwt does not translate the same greek phrases elsewhere in the gospel of john the same way. Jehovahs witnesses stunned kingdom interlinear translation teaches jesus is god john 1. Many of them are worldrenowned greek scholars whose works the jehovahs witnesses themselves have quoted in their publications, notably robertson, harner, and mantey, in defense of their a god translation of john 1.
All things came into existence through him, and apart from him not even oone thing came into existence. The jehovah witnesses use the new world translation bible. Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the holy spirit. The book is in violation of the warning in revelation 22. In the same chapter and book, there are clear references to jesus as god e. While new world translation defenders might succeed in showing that john 1. In the beginning the word was, and the word was with god, and the word was a god. By stanford rives to give it an aura of ancient origin. When thomas said, my lord and my god, he was affirming the truth about jesus that he was an expression of the father.
In short, wherever possible, the nwt translates texts that call jesus god in such a way as to keep the text from making that identification. John 3 greek interlinear, parsed and per word translation. Actually calling it a translation, well, ummm, sort of just doesnt quite cut the mustard, but there we are. This text inexplicably adds not that he is god which is not contained or implied by the passage. The verse has been a source of much debate among bible scholars and translators. Their complete bible was published first in 1961, with subsequent revisions published in 1970 and 1984. John 1 nwt new world translation of the holy scriptures. John 20, new english translation net the bible app. The word son has been added, as the square brackets indicate. Comparing the new world translations take on john 8. In beginning was the word, and the word was with the god, and god was the word. All references to brackets in the list below are from the 1984 edition of the new world translation because in 2006, the watchtower society updated their version of the new world translation bible to remove the brackets that they used to have around words that they inserted that are not found in the greek text. Jesus emphasized the truth of his always giving the father the glory.
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