It has been alleged that the KJV's rendering makes it appear as if our Lord was killed first, and then hanged on a tree. These critics do not understand the use of the conjunction "and". “And” is a conjunction that indicates simultanaeity, not causation or chronology. The slaying and hanging occurred simultaneously because the two occurrences coincided chronologically. Read more articles from: The King James Version is Demonstrably Inerrant |