People have been translating the Bible for hundreds of years. Read how the English translation of the Bible came to be.

New to the Bible and not sure where to begin? Here are three top tips to get you going.

Tom looks back on April's reading and what stirred his heart last month.

Anna-Claar Thomasson-Rosingh uses the story of Noah's Ark, personal anecdote and thoughtful research to help us reconsider how we read the Bible with children.

It’s a very significant title. As far as we know, Jesus had only the sort of formal education anyone else from his background did; he was a carpenter, rather than someone who’d sat at the feet of a renowned teacher and devoted himself to a lifeti...

Today, when we think about ‘legacy’ we probably think first of making sure our money and property are passed down to the next generation when we die. In Bible times, too, this was an important concern, and people’s first instinct was that wealt...

It probably won’t surprise you that here at Bible Society, we don’t think that the Bible is just for grown-ups. The work we do to help children and young people to discover the Bible, to learn about it and from it, is really important to us.

His Majesty the King was a guest of Bible Society’s President, His Eminence Archbishop Angaelos, at The Coptic Orthodox Church Centre in Hertfordshire.

The Bible can now be read in the Mohawk language, thanks to 24 years of hard of work that realised a lifelong dream for Harvey Satewas Gabriel. A Mohawk Gospel of John was the first Scripture translation Bible Society published, in its founding year ...

Open the Book is bringing the Bible to life for children in Argentina, including those with audio, visual, and learning difficulties. Argentine Bible Society hosted a week-long Open the Book training workshop in March, led by Angela Lopez Branco from...

Is the New Testament anti-Semitic? Historically, verses like ‘His blood be on us, and on our children’ (Matthew 27.25, KJV) have been used to mark Jews as Jesus murderers and to justify violence against them. Some passages in the Gospels and the ...

John's Gospel is different from the others. His tone and language are different; there are longer stretches of teaching, and fewer but longer stories, some of them different from the other Gospels. It begins with a unique sermon-poem. Where Matt...

The Gospels tell us that Jesus often went away by himself to pray, but in this chapter we get a rare chance to overhear one of his prayers. It’s an intimate prayer for the people who love him – the disciples gathered for his last Passover meal - ...

Biblical scholars commonly assume that Paul’s letters are older than the Gospels. This would make 1 Corinthians 11.23–26 our earliest reference to the Lord’s Supper.

There are indications in the Gospels that Jesus’ family were worried about and even hostile towards his ministry. Perhaps they have come to him on this occasion to try to talk him out of his mission. His words about family are quite startling even ...

Everyone knows about the five loaves and two fish that miraculously became enough to feed a whole crowd. With slight variations, the story appears in all four Gospels. Like many others, it has Old Testament roots: Elisha does the same sort of thing i...

The Sermon on the Mount covers Matthew 5–7. It's the longest block of teaching in the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke), and contains some of Jesus' most challenging teaching – and his most comforting.

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Walter Moberly is Professor of Theology and Biblical Interpretation at Durham University and the author of numerous books.

Jesus' appearance at the synagogue in Nazareth marked the real beginning of his ministry. He sets out his manifesto: good news for the poor, freedom for the prisoners, sight for the blind, the year of God's favour (verses 18–19). So far, ...