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Welcome to the Eric Matexas show with your host Eric Matexas.

Hey folks, we are we're dropping some bombshells here. I'm talking to Kathy Lee Gifford.

She just threw shade at King James. Yes, King James, you know the King James that persecuted

the Puritans that came here for a religious freedom. That bum remember, but we say oh King James Bible.

Kathy Lee, you were just saying that the King James Bible, which was written by 12 committees,

that it's got some problems.

First of all, the people who were transposing it, transcribing it, whatever you want to call it,

from the original Greek and the original Hebrew, had never been to Israel.

And so they had no geopolitical or cultural contrasts.

Right.

Comments, you know, it's context.

So they said, they said, no, I know there are many things that are in the King James that you read it,

and you think this feels like 1605 England.

Yes, first of all, Jesus did not speak the King's English. Jesus spoke Aramaic,

he spoke Hebrew, and he spoke Greek. And probably a little bit more, you know,

because this was a trading post, you know, the Viamaris, the road of the sea along the Mediterranean,

getting ahead of myself, too fast, Kathy's too fast, was a major trade route to the north south and down to Africa,

and down to, you know, north to Turkey and on Asia.

And so lots of people came through there.

They also spoke.

Now the worst thing is that everybody thinks Jesus had been a carpenter,

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