Greek New Testament

 "The Bible is God's written Word to man - it is the most important book ever written" (Billy Graham). "No task in the world is more important than reaching every person on earth with the Word of God" (Philippine Bible Society). The Word of God is the Holy Bible.

The Holy Bible is composed of the Old Testament and the New Testament. God used the Hebrew language in writing the Old Testament while He used the Greek language for the New Testament.

One of the books that helped the Translator to a very great extent in the work of translation is the Linguistic Key to the Greek New Testament by Fritz Rienecker and Cleon Rogers, a portion of the Foreword of which is hereunder quoted:

"In 1524 Luther wrote this concerning the value of the Greek language: 'In the measure that we love the Gospel, so let us place a strong emphasis on the languages. For it was not without reason that God wrote the Scriptures in two languages, the Old Testament in Hebrew and the New Testament in Greek. That language which God did not despise but rather chose above all others for His Word is the language which we also should honor above all others. It is a sin and shame that we do not learn this language of our Book, especially since God has provided us people and books, and gives us all kinds of things which both help us with this task and at the same time stimulates us to do this.' There is nothing more to add to these words of Luther."

The Hebrews came from Eber, 15th generation and he was born 2,637 years from Adam. Abraam is the 21st generation born 3,312 years after Adam. Our Lord Iesous Christ is 61st generation.

THE WILL BIBLE (New Testament) is a translation of THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT, Second Edition (1968) by the United Bible Societies, U.S.A., and the GREEK NEW TESTAMENT, Fourth Revised Edition by the Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft (1998 - 3rd printing) which exerted much effort to conduct researches to present as much as possible the truth. Hereunder quoted is part of the Preface to the First Edition dated August 26, 1965 incorporated in the Second Edition (1968) as well as in the Fourth Revised Edition of October 1992:

"To meet the growing need for an edition of the Greek New Testament specially adapted to requirements of Bible translators throughout the world, the American Bible Society, the National Bible Society of Scotland, and the Wurttemberg Bible Society appointed in 1965 an international and inter-denominational committee of textual scholars to prepare such an edition. The three Societies were later joined by the Netherlands Bible Society and the British and Foreign Bible Society."

The group cited about one hundred eighty-five references in the bibliography.