Since Mark is, by general if not universal consent, the earliest evangelist, the translator starts with his gospel. There are some terms in this gospel which cannot always be translated in the same way, or even at all. The rest of the books are in the traditional order. He has followed The New Testament in Greek , by Westcott and Hort, as a text. Rare exceptions have been noted.
Words enclosed in square brackets are of doubtful authenticity.
The translator also regularly consulted The Pelican Gospel Commentaries and A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, 2nd Edition . At the back is a section of notes which explain his translations or give alternate interpretations. Some readers may find this distracting, offensive, or inappropriate for the cover of a book of Scriptures. It was first published by Farrar, Strauss, Giroux in 1962. In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.