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  • The “New World Translation”—Scholarly and Honest
    The Watchtower—1991 | March 1
    • At Luke 4:18, according to the New World Translation, Jesus applied to himself a prophecy in Isaiah, saying: “Jehovah’s spirit is upon me.” (Isaiah 61:1) Many object to the use of the name Jehovah here. It is, however, just one of the more than 200 places where that name appears in the New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures, the so-called New Testament. True, no early surviving Greek manuscript of the “New Testament” contains the personal name of God. But the name was included in the New World Translation for sound reasons, not merely on a whim.

  • The “New World Translation”—Scholarly and Honest
    The Watchtower—1991 | March 1
    • The New World Translation restores the name to the text of the Bible wherever there is sound, scholarly reason to do so.​—See Appendix 1D in the Reference Bible.

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