The King James Bible is the literal WORD OF GOD, not just a translation
by Mikkel S. Kragh
How does God first and foremost communicate His will to mankind? Through the Word of God, which is also known as the Holy Bible. St Paul tells us that: “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:” (2 Tim 3:16)
That begs the question: What is the Scripture that is inspired by God? What is the Word of God exactly? Protestants claim it is the 66 books of the Protestant Bible. Catholics claim it is the 73 books (the 66 books of the Protestant Bible plus the 7 books of the Apocrypha). Both Protestants and Catholics believe that their Bible translations are only translations, and that the original inspired Word of God are the original Bible manuscripts written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek.
Is that really true? Did God, the Creator of Heaven and Earth, really only inspire the original texts in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek? Did the God of Israel, who sent the Flood of Noah, the 10 plagues of Egypt, divide the Red Sea, and raise Jesus from the dead, did He really leave His Word in the hand of un-inspired translators and just hoped that they would translate His Word in the best way possible? Probably not.
A young American, Brandon Peterson (born 1993), has shown in his book Sealed by the King (2022) and on his YouTube channel ‘Truth is Christ’ that not only is the King James Version of the Bible a lyrically beautiful translation of the Bible. It is also the actual inspired Word of God. Brandon Peterson has shown in his work, that the King James Version of the Bible is, indeed, the actual WORD OF GOD, and that the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth has also inspired and written every letter, word and sentence of the King James Bible.
How has Brandon Peterson shown that the King James Bible is the inspired Word of God and not just a translation? He has looked at the number of letters, verses, chapters, etc. in the King James Bible, and this shows a miraculous numerical pattern so detailed and consistent that it is impossible that men inserted it into the text. He has used Bible online programs, but it could just as well be done without online programs. It would only take longer time.
Thus, what Brandon Peterson has done is different, but related to, Bible numerics and Gematria, which ascribes certain numbers to each letter.
Jewish rabbis have for more than 1,000 years used Gematria to interpret the text of the Hebrew Bible. Starting in 1890, the Russian-American Bible student Ivan Panin published several works on Bible numerics that proved how the Christian Bible had to be divinely inspired. In Gematria and Bible numerics, one has to go “underneath” the text to find the divine patterns in the text by ascribing numerical values to each letter. But Brandon Peterson’s work is less complicated. He has simply looked at the text itself. Nonetheless, he has come to the same conclusion: That the Christian Bible consists of numerical patterns and details that are so intricate that they have to be put there by God. It would be impossible for human translators to have inserted them into the text.
Brandon Peterson’s book Sealed by the King is 585 pages long, and he has numerous studies on his website and numerous videos on his YouTube channel. In this article we are only going to give a few examples of the intricate numerical patters that are found in the King James Bible.
If you think these examples are too few and might simply be coincidences, please do look into Brandon Peterson’s work and you will find many, many more examples.
What is the King James Bible?
The King James Bible was published in 1611. The original 1611 version of the KJB is not used by anyone today. One noticeable difference between the original 1611 translation and later versions of the KJB is that the original 1611 translation did not use the letter ‘j’ at all. In the original 1611 edition of the KJB, Jerusalem is called Ierusalem, Judah is called Iudah, Jews are called Iews, Jacob is called Iacob, etc.
For example, in the original 1611 KJB the Gospel of Matthew chapter 1:23-25 reads as follows:
“Behold, a Uirgin shall be with childe, and shall bring foorth a sonne, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted, is, God with vs.) Then Ioseph, being raised from sleepe, did as the Angel of the Lord had bidden him, & tooke vnto him his wife: And knewe her not, till shee had brought forth her first borne sonne, and he called his name Iesus.” (Matt 1:23-25)
The King James Bible has been updated numerous times. But all the significant grammatical changes ended with the 1769 edition. After 1769, there has been made some very minor grammatical updates until the early 20th century, but those changes are insignificant. They were lower case letters that were changed into upper case letters, and vice versa. Nothing significant.
When people today in 2026 refer to the ‘King James Version’, they refer to the editions from 1769 and until the early 20th century.
In 1982 the New King James Version was published. It contained a multitude of changes.
The amazing thing is that the numerical perfection is found only in the King James Bible published between 1769 and the early 20th, not even in the original the original 1611 King James Bible, and even less so in the New King James Version, and even less so in other English translations.
Brandon Peterson’s book is 585 pages long. Therefore, in this article we are only going to mention a few examples of the numerical perfection of the KJB. We are going to take a look at the following numbers: 7, 777, 1611 and 666.
The number 7: Words spoken directly by God in Gen 1 & Matt 1
Everyone knows that the number 7 a divine number in the Bible.
The first example are the words spoken directly by God in Genesis chapter 1 and the Gospel of Matthew chapter 1 in the King James Bible. In Genesis chapter 1 God speaks a total of 343 words, which is 7 x 7 x 7. In the Gospel of Matthew chapter 1 God speaks a total of 49 words, which is 7 x 7.
Genesis chapter 1 has 343 words directly spoken by God (7 x 7 x 7). Compare this with other translations that have the following number of words:
Original 1611 King James Bible 344
New King James Version 336
English Standard Version 333
New American Standard Bible 1971 325
New American Standard Bible 2020 326
New International Version 321
The Gospel of Matthew chapter 1 has 49 words spoken directly by God (7 x 7). Compare this with other translations:
KJB1611 49
NKJV 50
ESV 46
NASB1971 52
NASB2020 50
NIV 51
As you see, and as is shown throughout Sealed by the King, the perfect numerical pattern is found in the common King James Bible, but it is not found in other English translations. The perfect pattern is not even found in the original 1611 translation of the King James Bible! The original 1611 King James Bible only comes close to the numerical perfection of the most commonly used version of the KJB, but it is only found perfectly in the KJV from 1769, which is what people refer to today when they refer to the “King James Version”.
The number 7: First and last mention in NT
In the KJB, word number 7 in the New Testament is the same as last 7th last word of the New Testament. And guess what word it is? JESUS!
“The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David...” (Matt 1:1)
“The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.” (Rev 22:21)
This pattern is not even found in the original Greek New Testament. Why would God put this perfect numerical pattern into the KJB, but not even in the original Greek New Testament text? Because the KJB would become the most commonly used Bible for His people in the Latter Days.
This pattern is found in some of the other English Bible translations we mentioned previously, and it is not found in some of the other ones. But it is ALWAYS found in the common King James Version. This is the case in all the examples we mention in this study.
First mention of Jesus 77%, the 77th from God
The sacred nature of the number 7 is obvious from the first chapter of Matthew, where St Matthew highlights how the genealogy of Jesus is numerically perfect with the numbers 14 (2 x 7), 28 (4 x 7) and 42 (6 x 7), all of which are divisible by the number 7:
“So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.” (Matt 1:17)
However, the genealogy of Jesus is not only sealed by the number 7 in the genealogy in the Gospel of Matthew. It is also evident in the genealogy in the Gospel of Luke, where St Luke traces the genealogy of Jesus all the way back to Adam and God:
“And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli... Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.” (Luke 3:23, 38)
The numerical perfection is not obvious in the genealogy in the Gospel of Luke, but if you count the number of the generations from God to Adam and to Jesus, Jesus is the 77th generation.
Compare this with the first mention of Jesus in the KJB, which is word number 610,288 out of the total number of words in the KJB which is 790,849. That is 77% of the way through the KJB from Genesis to Revelation.
777
The first verse in the Gospel of Matthew reads:
“The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.” (Matt 1:1)
In the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, the words ‘generation’, ‘Jesus’, ‘Christ’, ‘David’ and ‘Abraham’ are mentioned a total of 777 times.
Coincidence? Again, the numerical perfect pattern is found in the KJB, but not in the other translations we have mentioned. Not even in the original 1611 KJB.
Appearances of Jesus + Christ
The difference between a mention and an appearance is simple. A mention is when the thing is actually mentioned. An appearance is when the word is mentioned, but it may or may not refer to the actual object. For example, the word ‘Christ’ appears in the word ‘Christian’, but does not refer to the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, but to believers in the Lord Jesus Christ.
In the KJB, the total number of appearances of the two words ‘Jesus’ and ‘Christ’ – minus references to Joshua and Justus and Bar-jesus, and ‘antichrists’ and ‘false christs’ – are a total of 980 + 574 = 1554, which is 777 + 777.
There is a total of 847 appearances of Moses in the KJB.
If you add the number of appearances of Moses + Jesus + Christ = 847 + 980 + 574 = 2401 = 7 x 7 x 7 x 7.
The 777th time Moses is mentioned in the KJB gives us a 10 km view of all the Scriptures. It reads:
“For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth by Jesus Christ.” (John 1:17)
In this verse, Moses is word #7 and the ‘Jesus Christ’ is word/phrase number 14 (7 + 7).
The Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost (1 John 5:7)
1 John 5:7 is by far the most controversial verse in the KJB. It reads:
“For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.” (1 John 5:7)
Many “study Bibles” have notes that says that this is a spurious verse that does not belong in the Bible.
The total number of times the phrases ‘the Father’, ‘the Word’ and ‘the Holy Ghost’ are 777 times.
Other translations mention these phrases (even when substituting ‘the Holy Spirit’ for ‘the Holy Ghost’) a total number of times:
KJB1611: 776
NKJV: 784
ESV: 811
NASB1971: 908
NASB2020: 757
NIV: 817
The Godhead in the Bible
The Godhead is mentioned the following number of times (when referring to the Godhead):
Father: 259 = 7 x 37
Son: 231 = 7 x 33
Holy Ghost/Holy Spirit: 91 = 7 x 13
‘Jesus Christ’: 196 = 7 x 28
The numbers add up to: 259 + 231 + 91 + 196 = 777.
The Godhead in the New Testament
In the New Testament, the following titles/names for the Godhead are mentioned the following number of times:
God: 1354, Jesus: 973, Holy Spirit: 4. 1354 + 973 + 4 = 2331 = 777 + 777 + 777.
The Godhead in various portions of the Bible
The following phrases referring to the Godhead are mentioned/appear the following number of times in various portions of the Bible:
The Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost in the entire Bible: 777.
God, Father, Word, Holy Ghost in even New Testament books (#2, #4, #6, etc.): 777.
The Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost in the entire Bible: 389, which is the 77th prime number, and as close as you can get to 777/2 = 388.5.
Father, Son, Spirit in the entire Bible: 777.
Holy One, Father, Spirit in the entire Bible: 777.
The Father, the Word, the Holy Ghost, Jesus, Christ (all case sensitive) in the Gospels: 777.
The Father, the Word, the Holy Ghost (all case sensitive, except for The/the), Jesus, Christ, Messias in the Gospels: 777.
the Father, Jesus, the Holy Ghost (case sensitive), Christ (case sensitive, including possessive) in the Gospels: 777.
Father, Son, Holy Ghost/Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ (case sensitive, excluding anti-mentions, only referring to God the Father and Jesus the Son) in the entire Bible: 777.
UPPER CASE TITLES OF GOD + Jesus
God is sometimes mentioned with UPPERCASE NAMES/TITLES in the KJB. When you add these with all mentions of Jesus (excluding Joshua/Justus) you get:
LORD, GOD, I AM, JEHOVAH, JAH: 7 x 970.
BRANCH, KING: 7.
JESUS, Jesus (excluding Joshua/Justus): 7 x 140.
Total mentions: 7777.
These are all the UPPERCASE names/titles of God or Jesus in the KJB. There are no other.
[041 1611]
1611
The King James Bible was published in the year 1611, and the number 1611 is even interwoven into the text of the King James Bible. For example, the 1611th time the LORD is mentioned in the KJB is in Deuteronomy 16:11.
The verse reads:
“And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.” (Deu 16:11)
The word the LORD is mentioned twice in the verse. The first time is word #7. The second time is word #49 (7 x 7).
In the New Testament of the KJB, the words ‘King’, ‘Jesus’ and ‘Christ’ are mentioned a total of 1611 times.
The last time the Lord Jesus Christ is mentioned in the Bible is in Revelation 22:21: “...our Lord Jesus Christ...” (Rev 22:21)
The total number of times the phrases ‘our Lord’, ‘Jesus’ and ‘Christ’ are mentioned in the entire Bible is a total of 1611 times.
In the New Testament, the words ‘God’ (capitalized), ‘Father’ (capitalized, referring to God) and ‘Holy Spirit’ are mentioned a total of 1611 times.
666
Even outside Christian circles, the number 666 is recognized as the number of the Beast, the Antichrist and/or the Devil.
It is specifically mentioned in the Book of Revelation:
“And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.” (Rev 13:16-18)
Could the 666th time the name Jesus is mentioned in the KJB refer to something antichrist? Let us see. This is the 666th time Jesus is mentioned:
“And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus:” (Acts 13:6)
The 666th time the name Jesus is mentioned in the KJB, it refers to a false prophet called Bar-Jesus, not to Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God.
What about the 666th verse to mention Jesus? Does it mention something antichrist? It is this verse:
“Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.” (Acts 21:13)
How about the 666th verse of the New Testament? Does that refer to something antichrist? It reads:
“Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death,” (Matt 20:18)
There are only two chapters/verses of the New Testament that contain the chapter/verse concatenation 6:66: Matthew 26:66 and John 6:66. Do these two verses something antichrist? They read:
“What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.” (Matthew 26:66)
“From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.” (John 6:66)
Mark 16:9-20 and 666
A large number of Bible scholars claim that the Gospel of Mark chapter 16:9-20 is not inspired, but inserted into the Biblical text a long time after St Mark penned his Gospel.
However, through Bible numerics Ivan Panin showed that the Gospel of Mark chapter 16 is numerically perfect when it contains the verses 9-20, but it is numerically imperfect when they are lacking.
In the KJB, the total number of verses in the Gospel of Mark is 678. But if the verses 9-20 of verse 16 of the Gospel of Mark are removed, the Gospel of Mark contains this number of verses: 666.
(What does Mark combined with 666 remind you of? The Mark of the Beast, which is connected with the number 666.)
Does that tell you that the Gospel of Mark chapter 16 verses 9-20 is inspired Scripture or not?
Lessons
Brandon Peterson’s work shows beyond any shadow of doubt that the KJB is spun with such an intricate numerical web which only God can have put there. It would be impossible for men, even with the most advanced modern computers, to make such a translation. And even less so, to make such a translation with such a beautiful and poetic language as the KJB has.
What conclusions can we draw from the fact that the KJB is the inspired Word of God?
First of all, we can, obviously, conclude that the Bible is the literal Word of God. And that the Lord Jesus Christ is the Son of God, because that is the most important message of the Bible.
Secondly, we can conclude that Protestant Christianity is True Christianity, and Roman Catholicism is a false representation of Christianity. The KJB is an explicitly Protestant Bible, which contain the 66 books that Protestants consider canonical, whereas the Catholic Bible contain 73 books (Catholics consider the 7 books of the Apocrypha canonical). The numerical perfection found in the KJB does not work in Catholics Bibles with 73 books. Also, the translators of the 1769 KJB wrote in the Preface: “So that if... we shall be traduced by Popish Persons at home or abroad, who therefore will malign us, because we are poor instruments to make God’s holy Truth to be yet more and more known unto the people, whom they desire to keep still in ignorance and darkness...”
Thirdly, since it is God who has put every letter and word in the KJB, it means that the tribes of Dan and Ephraim are supposed to be missing from the 144,000 sealed Israelites in Revelation chapter 7. It was God who inspired John to write that 144,000 Israelites would be sealed, but that the tribes of Dan and Ephraim would be missing from the 144,000. It was not the translators that made a mistake. This means that the identity of the 12 Tribes of Israel is still of the utmost importance in the eyes of God, and not only that, but even the identity of each of the 12 Tribes of Israel is of the utmost importance in the eyes of God.
April 2026
Bibliography
Brandon Peterson: Sealed by the King (2022, updated 2024)