Welcome to the Eric Metaxus show with your host, Eric Metaxus.

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 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.

You know, it's context.

So 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.

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.

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