The King’s English

The skin of my teeth Suffer fools gladly Turn the my wits’ end in the twinkling of an eye Born again other cheek No rest for the wicked The extra mile Am I my brother’s keeper? atonement Woe is me

Putting Words in our Mouth Sometimes misquotes: Money is the root of all evil

Putting Words in our Mouth Sometimes paraphrases: Pride goeth before a fall Going the extra mile

Putting Words in our Mouth Sometimes summaries: Giant killing The Good Samaritan The Prodigal Son

Putting Words in our Mouth Professor David Crystal

Putting Words in our Mouth At least twice as many idioms as Shakespeare. Professor David Crystal

Putting Words in our Mouth Only 18 are original to the King James Bible! Professor David Crystal

Nothing New Under the Sun

1380s – Wycliff Bible 1526 – Tyndale’s New Testament 1535 – Coverdale Bible 1537 – Matthew’s Bible 1539 – The Great Bible 1560 – The Geneva Bible 1568 – The Bishop’s Bible Nothing New Under the Sun

1380s – Wycliff Bible 1526 – Tyndale’s New Testament 1535 – Coverdale Bible 1537 – Matthew’s Bible 1539 – The Great Bible 1560 – The Geneva Bible 1568 – The Bishop’s Bible Nothing New Under the Sun

“If God spare my life ere many years, I will cause a boy that driveth the plow, shall know more of Scripture than thou doest.”

Great Bible 1539 Placed in every church in the land. Heavily dependent on Tyndale

Geneva New Testament 1557 William Whittingham and others

1380s – Wycliff Bible 1526 – Tyndale’s New Testament 1535 – Coverdale Bible 1537 – Matthew’s Bible 1539 – The Great Bible 1560 – The Geneva Bible 1568 – The Bishop’s Bible Nothing New Under the Sun

“[We ask] that a translation be made of the whole Bible, as consonant as can be to the original Hebrew and Greek; and this be set out and printed, without marginal notes, and only to be used in all Churches of England in time of divine service.” Dr John Reynolds, President of Corpus Christi College Oxford

Two panels in Oxford Two Panels in Cambridge Two Panels in Westminster Commanded to use Bishop’s Bible as a base text. “Appointed to be read in churches.”

King James Version % of NT 76% of OT Straight from Tyndale

The Serpent tempts Eve: “Tush, thou shalt not die!” Genesis 3:4

 “They heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day” (Genesis 3)  “God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes” (Rev 21)  “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle” (Job 7)  “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning” (Isaiah 14)

 “The shadow of a great rock in a weary land” (Isaiah 32)  “Ask and it shall be given to you, seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you” (Matthew 7)  “In Him we live and move and have our being.” (Acts 17)  “The unsearchable riches of Christ.” (Ephesians 2)

 “Fight the good fight of faith: lay hold of eternal life” (1 Timothy 6)  “Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.” (Hebrews 12)  “Behold I stand at the door and knock.” (Revelation 3)

1611 – – editions of the KJV 1660 – – editions: It was the only translation allowed to be printed.

Nothing New Under the Sun

PoliticsScienceEconomics Turn the World Upside Down

Politics By the people, for the people Servant Leadership Authority of the Word

Science Turn the World Upside Down Patterns and Practicalities 'Men became scientific because they expected law in nature and they expected law in nature because they believed in a law giver'- C.S Lewis

Economics Turn the World Upside Down Horde or Display

The Surprising Supremacy of Christ! Long Live the King

404 – Latin Vulgate 1215 – Fourth Lateran Council “The secret mysteries of the faith ought not to be explained to all men in all places... For such is the depth of divine Scripture that, not only the simple and illiterate, but even the prudent and learned are not fully sufficient to try to understand it.” Fourth Lateran Council, 1215

404 – Latin Vulgate 1215 – Fourth Lateran Council 1380s – John Wycliffe and the Lollards

St John’s Gospel in John Wycliffe’s Bible (manuscript) 1380

404 – Latin Vulgate 1215 – Fourth Lateran Council 1380s – John Wycliffe and the Lollards 1408 – ABC forbids the Bible in English 1428 – Wycliffe’s body exhumed and burnt

404 – Latin Vulgate 1215 – Fourth Lateran Council 1380s – John Wycliffe and the Lollards 1408 – ABC forbids the Bible in English 1428 – Wycliffe’s body exhumed and burnt 1450s – Moveable type printing press

Reading the original Greek: “Either this is not the Gospel or we are not Christians.”

“If God spare my life ere many years, I will cause a boy that driveth the plow, shall know more of Scripture than thou doest.”

404 – Latin Vulgate 1215 – Fourth Lateran Council 1380s – John Wycliffe and the Lollards 1408 – ABC forbids the Bible in English 1428 – Wycliffe’s body exhumed and burnt 1450s – Moveable type printing press 1517 – Martin Luther and the 95 Theses

Coverdale’s Bible The first complete printed Bible in English Used Tyndale, Vulgate, Luther, Zwingli and another Latin OT translation.

Matthew’s Bible (John Rogers) 1537 Mainly used Tyndale

Great Bible 1539 Placed in every church in the land. Essentially Matthew’s Bible.

Geneva New Testament 1557 William Whittingham and others

Bishops Bible 1568 Essentially the Great Bible reprinted.

1380s – Wycliff Bible 1526 – Tyndale’s New Testament 1535 – Coverdale Bible 1537 – Matthew’s Bible 1539 – The Great Bible 1560 – The Geneva Bible 1568 – The Bishop’s Bible Nothing New Under the Sun

“[We ask] that a translation be made of the whole Bible, as consonant as can be to the original Hebrew and Greek; and this be set out and printed, without marginal notes, and only to be used in all Churches of England in time of divine service.” Dr John Reynolds, President of Corpus Christi College Oxford

Two panels in Oxford Two Panels in Cambridge Two Panels in Westminster Commanded to use Bishop’s Bible as a base text. “Appointed to be read in churches.”

King James Version % of NT 76% of OT Straight from Tyndale

The Serpent tempts Eve: “Tush, thou shalt not die!” Genesis 3:4

 “They heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day” (Genesis 3)  “God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes” (Rev 21)  “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle” (Job 7)  “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning” (Isaiah 14)

 “The shadow of a great rock in a weary land” (Isaiah 32)  “Ask and it shall be given to you, seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you” (Matthew 7)  “In Him we live and move and have our being.” (Acts 17)  “The unsearchable riches of Christ.” (Ephesians 2)

 “Fight the good fight of faith: lay hold of eternal life” (1 Timothy 6)  “Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.” (Hebrews 12)  “Behold I stand at the door and knock.” (Revelation 3)

1611 – – editions of the KJV 1660 – – editions: It was the only translation allowed to be printed.