© 11 Colin Melbourne
Jesus’ Words
Are God’s Spirit and God’s Life
Please read John chapter six in the Holy Bible, especially noting Jn. 6:63b KJV;
The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
“Spirit” can be capitalised because it refers to God the Holy Spirit, and the two words “they”, added by the KJV translators, are not present in the Greek Textus Receptus. Significantly, William Tyndale did not include them in his 1534 translation, because they are not strictly necessary. The statement is more powerful and forthright without the additional words.