1 John 5:7-8: A History of the Debate

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Michael Maynard’s thorough historical and textual study of 1 John 5:7-8 — the Comma Johanneum, the most debated passage in the Bible versions controversy. Critics of the King James Bible point to this verse (which reads: ‘For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one’) as an interpolation not found in the original Greek. Maynard traces the entire history of the debate over this verse, examines all the manuscript and patristic evidence, and demonstrates that the evidence for the authenticity of this Trinitarian passage is much stronger than its critics acknowledge.