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I can only speculate at this point in time, but it seems that in the opinion of those translators there was just enough manuscript or internal evidence to support including "to hear" at Matthew 11:15, while not quite enough for 13:9 & 43. I say that because the ERV (1885), Darby (1890) and the...

The variant pair in Matthew 11:15 is between including or not including the Greek verb ἀκούειν ('to hear') in the verse. The KJV/TR has the word coming after "he that hath ears" and before "let him hear" (ἀκουέτω is the same verb in a different form). Like the NASB and NLT, the ESV does seem to...

Very recently published by Revell (a division of Baker) this is not actually a new translation, but rather it is a slightly modified form of the GOD'S WORD text. The general editor is author Ann Spangler (one of her books is entitled Praying the Names of God) -- Besides inserting the Hebraic...

First, let me say that I sympathize with your situation. It is difficult and sad to leave a church because of the friendships that have been made there. Second, I would like to share from recent experience that it does not matter what the 'official' church position (bylaws in writing) because...

In a sense, it is a commentary! British clergyman J.B. Phillips produced a paraphrase of the NT which he had begun at the end of WWII. Like many past Bible translation projects, this one was was released to the public in portions. Often, a new NT would be published several years before the...

I just finished reading Ray's short book God Only Wrote One Bible (from a library). I did not notice any resemblance to Fuller's book (which I had also looked at some time ago). It is true that Ray does not referrence Fuller in his Bibliography (only a few brief notes, really). Frankly, Ray's...

There is a variant at this verse: the TR has the adverb hos (Strong's #5613) which is often rendered "as"; the CT has a different (but similarly spelled) conjunction heos (Strong's #2193) which is usually rendered "until". The KJV has produced a very literal rendering. But since the NKJ does not...

Again, this is not textual. The Greek phrase Ἀσπάζεται ὑμᾶς ἡ ἐν Βαβυλῶνι (literally: is-greeting you the in Babylon) actually has no noun (like "church") or pronoun (like "she") at the beginning; it is implied by the context and each translation has supplied its own choice. The KJV indicates...

This verse has a true variant. But actually, neither the NKJ nor the KJV follow either the TR or the CT exactly. The TR has 4 words: τῷ θεῷ καὶ πατρὶ (but notice the definite article "the" is before "God" with only "and" between "God" and "Father"); while the CT has just 3 words: τῷ θεῷ πατρὶ...

No, I wouldn't put it that way. I think the NKJV translators seemed to have intended to follow strictly a 'KJV-TR' (probably a Greek text like Scrivener's), and in a few places they simply erred. There are some noteable differences between the MT and TR; I wrote about a few here --...

Virginia M. was a Bob Jones grad and married at the time.

The primary 'sign' was for timing to the king, the length of which was to be indicated by the age of this child; and this boy could be identified by his name. Did you think that the Spirit supernaturally concieved a child on Earth hundreds of years before Jesus?

The answer depends upon how you define the terms 'TR' and 'MT'. In the narrow technical sense the 'TR' is actually a group of about 30 closely related printed Greek editions (mostly from the 16th-17th century period); and the 'MT' would be a couple of very recently printed Greek editions...

I don't think it as a clear as many people may think. Actually, the concept of the Scriptures being 'preserved' is rather ambiguous in Scripture itself. First, it should be recognized that most referrences to "words" in the Scripture are NOT referring to the written word (as modern people...

Of course Dr. Bob is capable of answering for himself, but I can state some relevent well-attested historical facts -- The 'Puritans' were a sub-group of Anglicans that wanted to 'purify' the Anglican church of some Catholic tendancies. The Puritans were not a recognized denomination...

Been done; its called the AV7 (New Testament only).

Comort writes in his book The Quest for the Original Text of the New Testament that "it has been argued that the scribes of P46, A, and B added "God" to the existing text in order to clarify an ambiguous text..." (p.148)

Good summary, so far. However, I can think of at least two more-- First, it is common in Scripture that a man be called the "son of" a grandfather or even an earlier ancestor (as in Matthew 1). Therfore, it is possible that Bosor is not a referrence to Balaam's direct biological father but to...

The NKJV notes do not inform the reader that the translated text may be 'harmonized' with OT Hebrew, the LXX, or something else at this verse -- NKJV Footnotes: (2:3) M-Text reads will not. (2:17) NU-Text reads and mists. (2:17) NU-Text omits forever. (2:18) NU-Text reads are barely...

I concur; I think you may have misread what I wrote because I did indicate that the vast majority of Greek texts have Bosor. It is a non-issue, except as it relates to the NKJV's fidelity to the traditional TR texts.