John Wesley's translation of the New Testament is lesser known
than his sermons and Notes on the Bible, yet it deserves
recognition for its effort to revised the King James (or
Authorized) Version with updated language. By studying a Greek
text carefully, Wesley made about 12,000 changes to the King
James text. Wesley was, however, careful and precise in doing
so, as he explains. "I have never knowingly, so much as in one
place, altered it for altering's sake; but there only, where,
first, the sense was made better, stronger, clearer or more
consistent with the context; secondly, where the sense being
equally good, the phrase was better or nearer the original." The
Wesley New Testament is in chapter/paragraph form, not
versified. John Wesley (1703 - 1791) was an 18th-century
Anglican clergyman and Christian theologian who was an early
leader in the Methodist movement. These files were made
available from the Holiness Classics Library of the Wesley
Center Online at http://wesley.nnu.edu. Note: Highlighting is