Knorr told a convention audience: “More and more the need has been felt for a translation in modern speech, in harmony with revealed truth, and yet furnishing us the basis for gaining further truth by faithfully presenting the sense of the original writings; a translation just as understandable to modern readers as the original writings of Christ’s disciples were understandable to the simple, plain, common, lowly readers of their day. ”
وَعَامَ ١٩٨٩ ،‏ أَنْشَأَتِ ٱلْهَيْئَةُ ٱلْحَاكِمَةُ لِشُهُودِ يَهْوَهَ قِسْمًا جَدِيدًا فِي ٱلْمَرْكَزِ ٱلرَّئِيسِيِّ ٱلْعَالَمِيِّ لِتَسْهِيلِ تَرْجَمَةِ ٱلْكِتَابِ ٱلْمُقَدَّسِ .‏