Is it important that the skin disease Jesus healed people from wasn’t leprosy as we know it today?
Does it matter whether John the Baptist said he was not fit to untie the “thong” of Jesus’ sandals or the “strap?”
Should a verse in Isaiah be changed from the poetic “wild grapes” to the more accurate “rotten grapes,” even though it is less pleasing to the ear?
The answer to all three questions is “yes,” say scholars who worked on the 2021 update to one of the most popular Bible translations, the “New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition Bible,” published by Friendship Press. The National Council of Churches, of which The United Methodist Church is a member, holds the copyright on the translation, which was last updated in 1989. The Rev. Joseph Crockett, a United Methodist, is the CEO and publisher at Friendship Press.
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