Occasionally, in the NASB95 the words of Christ stop being red.
Welcome @John Spraker
Can you give some examples please?
Graham
How do you know?
One of the problems with red letter editions is, the original manuscripts didn't use quotation marks or any other indication of who was speaking. Often, it can be determined from context, but sometimes, where the quotation ends and the narrative begins is very difficult to determine. (John 3 is a good example, with Jesus' discourse stopping at different points in different versions).
So this may not be an error, it may be the translators' best effort to indicate which words were Christ's and which words were the narrators (both equally inspired by the HS, by the way).
I usually stumble across them when I'm reading on my phone. Of course I haven't seen any since I posted this question and didn't make a note of where I saw them before. Sometimes the top of letters will be read but most of the word is black, like it ran out of ink or something. I'll keep my eyes open for examples and post them here. Thanks for your responses.
Well, there is something screwy about NASB 2020 at least on mobile. I wanted to review Doc's point (latest Logos mobile app):
Acts like the red letter filter doesn't get called on a verse change, but does on initial. I used the select-a-verse panel each time.
I had that happen to me last week, using the ESV Bible in the iPadOS app. More than once I had to toggle the setting to get it back.
As a Biblical researcher for decades across many translations, I found the NASB 2020 to be the worse translation I have every read based on authenticity to the source language manuscripts. Modernization and seemly wokeness crept into the 2020 Bible translation taking the position that that it is no longer important to present the Bible text as near to the original language as possible while ascertaining accuracy in translation. One is better off with a paraphrase Bible that does not pretend to adhere to the source language giving preference to English grammar and modern vernacular. The NASB95 is my preferred Bible. I am surprised and disapointed that they produced the 2020 translation.
Ok, Gene … got it. Back to Jesus …
