KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

text. New versions echo Kittel's 1943 speech which purported there was a Talmudic Jewish mandate to kill Gentiles in general. Supporting Kittel's claim of a murderous spirit among Jews, new versions change Acts 26:17 from "Delivering thee from the people" to "from the Jewish people." No Greek support exists for adding the word 'Jewish'. Again, in Acts 23:12, the NIV and NASB have all of "the Jews" conspiring "under a curse" to kill Paul, whereas the verse really says "certain of the Jews." In addition, Mark 12:33, in the New Jerusalem Bible , directly transliterates the word 'holocaust' in a positive context, in spite of its contemporary negative associations. Did Jesus forgive the Jews? Not according to the new versions. The NASV, NAB and Living Bible add "the guilt of to Matthew 23:35, words which appear in no Greek manuscript. In addition, the verse, "Father forgive them; for they know not what they do" (Luke 23:34) is "probably not in the original writings," according to the New’American Bible , the NASB Interlinear Greek-English New Testament , Nestle's Greek and the Jehovah Witness New World Translation .46 The NIV casts doubt on its inclusion with a marginal note. The verse is found in the vast majority of manuscripts, even the early uncials such as Aleph, A,C, L, N, as well as the Old Latin, Curetonian, Peshitta, Harclean, and Philoxenia versions. Scholars believe its omission was caused by Marcion, who was anti-Jewish in all his sentiments. (Williams, Alterations to the Text p. 9) "Marcion expunged his copies of the Gospel according to Luke of all references to the Jewish background of Jesus," notes another scholar .47 "Paul's favorable remarks about Israel posed a problem for Marcion who simply excised those passages," says still another.48 New version editors who question its inclusion are in the beleaguered company of Marcion, the Vatican Manuscript, Westcott and Hort. The precious sons of Zion comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers.. . Lamentations 4:2 New versions (i.e., Living Bible ) deny any special place for the Jews—going so far as to remove the entire salutation from James 1:1. It begins, "to the twelve tribes of Israel." All new versions stop the book of Mark twelve verses short. This omission is based on Aleph , whose author would rather have you read the Shepherd of