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Colwell's apparatus was taken from his book, "What Is The Best New Testament" University of Chicago Press, 1951. Colwell's Rule of Bible Translations Versions in bold italics are those Colwell had printed, the others are added by me using the same criteria.
*The 21st Century NT has 64 points due to its being a dual Literal/Free Translation. Where one side (usually the Free side) had the weaker reading, it was usually corrected by the truer reading on the literal side. At the same time, each side held alone would have done remarkably well, especially the literal side. I think it is encumbent on any Free/Dynamic Equivalent/Paraphrased Bible to include a literal text, if nothing else, than for ease of mind and conscience. *Colwell chose Goodspeed version as his top New Testament, but I disagree. While taking him at his word for the most part, I cannot agree when it comes to the reading at John 1:18. Colwell's true reading of this verse has "the only begotten God," a faithful rendering of MONOGENHS QEOS. Goodspeed actually has "divine Only Son," a weaker reading as it seeks to combine the reading of both the Textus Receptus (TR) and the Westcott and Hort (WH) text. I left it at the top out of respect for Colwell, but it really deserves a reading of 63, placing the New World Translation as the best stand alone version of the New Testament in English. Below are the 64 scriptures that Colwell uses to determine accuracy
in a New Testament. The message being:
"No scholar today employs this text for any scholarly purpose except as he may use it in writing the history of the Greek New Testament. The King James version is undoubtably the most inaccurate English New Testament in common use today...The King James stands at the bottom of the list also in regard to three spurious passages selected as tests (Mk 16:9-20; Jn 7:53-8:11 and 1 John 5:7-8)." pp. 99, 100The list of 64: TR = Textus Receptus; WH = Westcott and Hort Text 1:15 TR This was he of whom I spake
1:18 TR the only begotten Son
1:27 TR He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me
1:28 TR Bethabara
1:39 TR Come and see
1:49 TR Nathanael answered and saith unto him
1:51 TR Hereafter ye shall see heaven
3:15 TR That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have
eternal
3:25 TR between John's disciples and the Jews
4:15 TR come hither to draw
4:35-36 TR they are white already to harvest. And he that reapeth
4:42 TR is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world
4:43 TR departed thence, and went into Galilee
5:2 TR Bethasda
5:3 TR a great multitude
5:3-4 TR waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went
down at a
5:12 TR Take up thy bed, and walk?
5:16 TR persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because
5:30 TR of the Father which hath sent me
6:11 TR he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that
were
6:17 TR Jesus was not come to them
6:22 TR none other boat there, save that one whereinto his disciples
were
6:39 TR of the Father who has sent me
6:40 TR of him who has sent me
6:47 TR He that believeth on me hath everlasting life
6:51 TR and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will
give for
6:58 TR not as your fathers did eat manna
6:63 TR the words which I speak
6:69 TR thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God
7:20 TR the crowd answered and said
7:26 TR Do the rulers know truly that this is truly the Christ?
7:39 TR for not yet was the Holy Spirit
7:40 TR many of the crowd
7:53-8:11 TR Pericope Adulterae
8:59 TR and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them,
and so
9:4 TR it is necessary for me to work
9:11 TR to the pool of Siloam
10:4 TR whenever he puts out his own sheep
10:26 TR because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you
10:29 TR he who gives to me is greater than all
11:30 TR but he was in the place
11:41 TR Then they took away the stone from the place where the corpse
was
12:4 TR Judas Iscariot, Simon's son
12:22 TR and again Andrew and Philip
12:41 TR These things said Isaiah, when he saw his glory
12:47 TR my words, and believe not
13:18 TR the one who eats bread with me
14:4 TR you know where I am going and you know the way
14:28 TR because I said I am going
16:4 TR whenever the time comes
16:16 TR and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father
16:27 TR I came out from God
17:11 TR keep those whom you gave me in your name
17:21 TR let them be one in us
18:20 TR where the Jews always meet together
18:40 TR and they all cried out again
19:3 TR and they said
19:29 TR and they filled a sponge with the wine
19:39 TR a mixture of myrrh and aloes
20:16 TR she said to him Rabbouni
20:29 TR Is it because you have seen me, Thomas, that you believe
21:3 TR they went out and embarked in the boat immediately
21:15 TR Simon son of Jonah
Colwell's apparatus was taken from the Book, "What is the Best New Testament"
by E.C. Colwell, University of Chicage Press.
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