Where Did the King James Bible Come From?
I don’t believe anyone can claim to know the entire history of the earliest Bibles, but utilizing the research we have done, I will attempt to give you a fair summary. The Bible itself confirms that it was supernaturally, written by men inspired by the Holy Spirit. 2Timothy 3:16 – “All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:” The Old Testament was written in Hebrew and is called the Masoretic Text while the New Testament was written in Greek. At Antioch, where the true believers in Christ were first called Christians (Acts 11:26), history tells us that there were over 5000 Greek manuscripts maintained there constituting the entire New Testament. 20 As mentioned, the King James Bible was a translation into English of the Masoretic Text and the Greek “Majority Text” (from which the Textus Receptus was derived). Because of the advent of the Gutenberg printing press, the Authorized 1611 Kin
