Bart Ehrman, Pg 209 of Misquoting Jesus.
Quote:The King James Version is filled with places in which the translators rendered a Greek text derived ultimately from Erasmus's
edition, which was based on a single twelfth century manuscript that
is one of the worst of the manuscripts that we now have available to
us! It's no wonder that modern translations often differ from the King James, and no wonder that some Bible believing Christians prefer
to pretend there's never been a problem, since God inspired the
King James Bible instead of the original Greek! (As the old saw goes,
If the King James was good enough for Saint Paul, it's good enough
for me.)
Reality is never that neat, however, and in this case we need to face
up to the facts. The King James was not given by God but was a translation by a group of scholars in the early seventeenth century who
based their rendition on a faulty Greek text.
