Judas’s betrayal is one of the Bible’s best-known stories. But in a new Swedish translation of the New Testament, a crucial word has been changed. Critics argue that the change downplays Judas’s betrayal of Jesus and makes the story less clear.
It will be released on September 24 NT 2026, the Swedish Bible Society’s new Swedish translation of the New Testament (NT). It is the first entirely new translation in over 40 years—and several well-known phrases have been changed, reports Daily News (DN).
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