Original King James Bible of 1611 — Contains more books than modern versions of the KJV Bible 📙 The existence of the Canonical, Deuterocanonical & Apocryphal manuscripts of antiquity... 💻 A simple Google search will enlighten you! If you use the original 1611 and 1769 editions, the King James Version of the Bible actually had more books in it than does the NAB today. If you use most any, with few exceptions, later editions of the King James Version you of course typically will have less books than NAB. If you are one of the unlucky ones to have a King James Version printed in more or less modern times, compared with the original editions of the KJV the books missing would be: 1 Esdras, 2 Esdras, Tobit, Judith, The rest of Esther, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, The Song of the Three Holy Children, The History of Susanna, Bel and the Dragon, The Prayer of Manasses, 1 Maccabees, and 2 Maccabees. Compared to the NAB, one would be missing the following: Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach (Ecclesiasticus), Baruch, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, some content from Esther, and some content from Daniel (Prayer of Azariah, Susanna, Bel and the Dragon). Catholic versions of Esther and Daniel contain within them additional portions of text that are considered Apocrypha in the older editions of the King James Version. Roman Catholic Bibles also generally do not contain 1 Esdras, 2 Esdras, or The Prayer of Manasses. For Roman Catholics these latter three are Apocrypha, whereas the other books listed above are considered deuterocanonical. However, in older Roman Catholic Bibles, also included among Roman Catholic Apocrypha is the Epistle of Paul to the Laodiceans. This Epistle of Paul to the Laodiceans also was found in the oldest of Roman Catholic Bibles for almost a thousand years, inserted either just after Colossians or just before Hebrews. 💻 Here's more about the original King James Bible Version of 1611 from Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version 💻 According to Encarta encyclopaedia; The 27 books of the New Testament are only a fraction of the literary production of the Christian communities in their first three centuries AD. The principal types of New Testament documents (gospel, epistle, apocalypse) were widely imitated, and the names of apostles or other leading figures were attached to writings designed to fill in the silence of the New Testament (for example, on the childhood and youth of Jesus), to satisfy the appetite for more miracles, and to argue for new and fuller revelations. As many as 50 Gospels were in circulation during this time. Many of these non-canonical Christian writings have been collected and published as New Testament Apocrypha (see Apocryphal New Testament). Knowledge of the literature of the period was greatly increased by the discovery in 1945 of the library of an ancient Christian group at Naj’ Hammadi, Egypt. This collection, written in Coptic, has been translated and published. Major scholarly attention has been focused on the Gospel of Thomas, which is said to be sayings of Jesus, 114 in all, delivered privately to Thomas, one of the 12 apostles. 👓 Definition of the word - Apocrypha: "The word's origin is the Medieval Latin adjective apocryphus, "secret, or non-canonical", from the Greek adjective ἀπόκρυφος (apokryphos), "obscure", from the verb ἀποκρύπτειν (apokryptein), "to hide away". 📃 Revelation 2:17 (Canonical New Testament) Jesus: "Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give some of the hidden manna [hidden books?]. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it." 🔗 Read Full Post: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CTQxYta2B/ #KJV1611