Did you know some of the words in the translated Bible were incorrectly translated from the Greek?

One of the words that was mistranslated was the word "perfect". The word in the original Greek version of the Bible actually translates correctly as "complete".

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SW-User

Why is the original version of Bible Greek?

I mean Jesus was in Palestine where they spoke the Aramaic language at the time, if I’m not mistaken.

PhoenixPhail · M

@SW-User It was originally written in Aramaic, then translated to Greek. Then, translated from Greek to English, leaving a lot of room for misinterpretation [i]everywhere. [/i]

4meAndyou · F

@SW-User IKR? But the bible wasn't written down right away. It was actually written about 80 AD. And even then, it was more of a gathering up of documents that had been written in several different languages. The Apocrypha, which were part of the original Bible, was rejected entirely by the Catholic church, whose monks translated it into Latin.

SW-User

@PhoenixPhail @SW-User Greek was spoken in that region by the educated (and thus the writers) and continued to be a primary language of the area until the decline of the Byzantine Empire. There's no evidence that the original language of the entire New Testament was anything other than Greek, especially since in some cases, Aramaic glosses are given within the Greek text.

4meAndyou · F

@PhoenixPhail And one or two of the epistles were in Greek, too.