Wuest Bible Translation May 2026

1. Overview & Purpose Full Name: The Wuest Expanded Translation of the Greek New Testament (often shortened to Wuest’s Expanded Translation or simply Wuest). Author: Dr. Kenneth S. Wuest (1893–1962), a professor of New Testament Greek at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. Date Published: 1961 (New Testament only; no Old Testament translation exists).

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⚠️ – Wuest’s theology (dispensational, Calvinistic in certain areas, strongly anti-charismatic) sometimes affects his rendering. For example, in Acts 2:4, he adds clarifying phrases about “languages” (not ecstatic speech) to fit his cessationist view. Kenneth S

⚠️ – Mid-20th-century Greek scholarship has been refined by more recent discoveries (papyri, inscriptions). Some of Wuest’s word studies are now considered oversimplified or incorrect by modern linguists. Calvinistic in certain areas