Everything below this line is spoken by Jesus. Not one word of narration, not one
word from anybody else. Where he is answering someone, only his half is here — tap
the scene on any passage to see the other half.
Nothing matches that.
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are the four accounts of his life. Acts holds what he
said after the resurrection and from heaven to Saul. 1 and 2 Corinthians hold two sayings
Paul quotes directly. Revelation holds what he says to John and to the seven churches.
Those are the only eight books in the whole Bible that record him speaking.
Checked against a second, independent source. These words come from the red-letter tradition carried in the King James source text. They have been compared verse by verse against the Clear Bible / Faith Comes By Hearing speaker data, which identifies who speaks every quotation in the Bible. The two agree on 1,989 verses out of 2,028. Every difference was read, and they fall into four kinds:
• That source also marks about forty Old Testament passages as Christ speaking — the angel of the LORD to Hagar, to Abraham, to Manoah. That is a reading of who those figures were, and this app does not take that position, so they are not here.
• Six verses the King James carries are absent from the earliest Greek copies (Mark 7:16, 9:44, 9:46, 11:26, Matthew 18:11 and 23:14, Luke 17:36). They are kept, and each one now says so on the passage.
• A few places where the New Testament puts Old Testament words into Christ's mouth (Hebrews 2:12-13, 10:5-9) are marked as his speech there but not by the red-letter tradition. They are not here, because this section follows the red letters.
• A handful in Revelation where the speaker changes without being named — already noted on those passages.
Checked against a second, independent source. These words come from the red-letter tradition carried in the King James source text. They have been compared verse by verse against the Clear Bible / Faith Comes By Hearing speaker data, which identifies who speaks every quotation in the Bible. The two agree on 1,989 verses out of 2,028. Every difference was read, and they fall into four kinds:
• That source also marks about forty Old Testament passages as Christ speaking — the angel of the LORD to Hagar, to Abraham, to Manoah. That is a reading of who those figures were, and this app does not take that position, so they are not here.
• Six verses the King James carries are absent from the earliest Greek copies (Mark 7:16, 9:44, 9:46, 11:26, Matthew 18:11 and 23:14, Luke 17:36). They are kept, and each one now says so on the passage.
• A few places where the New Testament puts Old Testament words into Christ's mouth (Hebrews 2:12-13, 10:5-9) are marked as his speech there but not by the red-letter tradition. They are not here, because this section follows the red letters.
• A handful in Revelation where the speaker changes without being named — already noted on those passages.
King James Version · 1769 text · public domain