We Opened a 500-Year-Old Bible to John 3:16

Has the Bible changed?

We spent eight hours inside the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. Then we flew halfway across America to a manuscript preservation facility normally closed to the public, where we were allowed to examine extraordinary biblical manuscripts and early printed Bibles up close.

We encountered real Dead Sea Scroll fragments, a thousand-year-old Torah, a 500-year-old Torah scroll, the Geneva Bible, the infamous Wicked Bible, and a first-edition 1611 King James Bible.

Then we opened a Bible printed during the 1500s to John 3:16 and compared it with the verse millions of people know today. Does it still say the same thing?

We also examined a remarkably old Greek manuscript of Psalms that contained something we never expected—evidence that challenged what we thought we knew about the history of Bible chapter numbering.

Along the way, we discovered ancient seals from Jerusalem, artifacts from everyday biblical life, and the remarkable story of the people who copied, translated, printed, protected, and passed Scripture from one generation to the next.

This is more than a journey through old books and museum displays. It is the story of the preserved Word of God—and why it still has the power to change lives today.

Additional info we realized after making of this video: Acts 13:33 also mentions numbers to Psalms: "As it is written in the Second Psalm"! And also Irenaeus (~AD 180) mentions numbering to Psalms.

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00:40 Ancient Jerusalem Artifacts
02:11 Walking Through Nazareth
03:53 Dead Sea Scrolls Up Close
06:17 The Bible Floor
08:20 Torah and Early English Bibles
10:22 Typos and Translation Heroes
12:06 Behind Closed Doors Oklahoma
15:07 John 316 Test
16:48 Greek Psalms Numbering Shock
19:49 Why the Bible Endures