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NASB | John 14:6 Jesus *said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the [only] Way [to God] and the [real] Truth and the [real] Life; no one comes to the Father but through Me. |
Bible Question: I have a friend who believes many things that Christians believe. However, he does not believe the Bible to be authoritative or infallible. He does not trust history's ability to hand us down an accurate Bible after so many translations. During our discussions, I mentioned John 14:6. He thinks that this verse might be inaccurate. Can any scholar who knows the original language help me out? What was the original phrasing/sense of this verse? |
Bible Answer: Your friend seems to think the Bible gets translated from each preceding translation. Some think that one of these intermediary Bibles was the King James Version. This is entirely false all respectable translations are made from the oldest manuscripts available. John 14:6 is just the same in the Greek as translated above in the NASB. At my local museum in London, viz, the British Museum, there is one of the oldest bibles in the world on display. The Codex Sinaiticus which is from the fourth century. Dalcent |