SOME FACTS ABOUT THE KING JAMES 2011 REVISION

The Tyndale Memorial Revision

During the last few decades of the twentieth century many churches were feeling the pressure to replace the King James Translation with one of the newer translations. While there were some good reasons for doing this, many found the proposed change upsetting because certain problems with the newer translations were not being addressed. During that time there were at least three different occasions when I asked the Lord to raise up someone to revise the King James translation.

Each time I made that request the thought, “Why don’t you do it” came very strongly into my mind while I was praying. However, at the time I just brushed that thought aside because such a task seemed overwhelming. Nevertheless, while praying I did say, “Lord, if you really want me to revise the King James Translation, you need to give me the ability. After that I did not think much more about it for several years.

However, during the intervening years I wrote over two-hundred essays, and as I neared retirement everything seemed to fall into place for me to revise the King James Translation. I had the entire text of the King James Bible on my computer, the skill needed, and confidence that could do it. It took about five years of work, but by 2011 that revision was largely complete.

Gary Ray Branscome