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The King James Bible
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The Message |
Genesis 12:18-19
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The Message is a reading Bible translated from the original Greek and Hebrew Scriptures by scholar, pastor, author, and poet Eugene Peterson. Peterson spent ten years working on The Message after teaching in seminary and preaching in churches for more than thirty years. Thoroughly reviewed and approved by twenty biblical scholars, The Message combines the authority of God’s Word with the cadence and energy of conversational English.
Eugene Peterson
The Message began with one pastor who was looking for a way to get the Bible into the hearts and lives of the people in his church. Eugene Peterson recalls:
“While I was teaching a [Sunday school] class on Galatians, I began to realize that the adults in my class weren’t feeling the vitality and directness that I sensed as I read and studied the New Testament in its original Greek. Writing straight from the original text, I began to attempt to bring into English the rhythms and idioms of the original language. I knew that the early readers of the New Testament were captured and engaged by these writings and I wanted my congregation to be impacted in the same way.”
Peterson could tell from the way they stirred their cups of coffee that his parishioners simply weren’t connecting with the real meaning of Galatians. So he began to translate into English the rhythms and idioms directly from the original ancient Greek, without looking at other English Bibles. As he shared his translation with them, Peterson’s congregation quit stirring their coffee and felt stirred themselves. Paul’s own passion and excitement began to emerge from the text into the lives of Peterson’s own Sunday School class. They began to listen with new interest as Paul guided young Christians in the ways of Jesus Christ.
“While I was teaching a [Sunday school] class on Galatians, I began to realize that the adults in my class weren’t feeling the vitality and directness that I sensed as I read and studied the New Testament in its original Greek. Writing straight from the original text, I began to attempt to bring into English the rhythms and idioms of the original language. I knew that the early readers of the New Testament were captured and engaged by these writings and I wanted my congregation to be impacted in the same way.”
Peterson could tell from the way they stirred their cups of coffee that his parishioners simply weren’t connecting with the real meaning of Galatians. So he began to translate into English the rhythms and idioms directly from the original ancient Greek, without looking at other English Bibles. As he shared his translation with them, Peterson’s congregation quit stirring their coffee and felt stirred themselves. Paul’s own passion and excitement began to emerge from the text into the lives of Peterson’s own Sunday School class. They began to listen with new interest as Paul guided young Christians in the ways of Jesus Christ.
