The Message Bible description

The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language is a version of the Bible by Eugene H. Peterson published in segments from 1993 to 2002. It falls on the extreme dynamic end of the dynamic and formal equivalence spectrum.

According to the Introduction to the New Testament of The Message, its "contemporary idiom keeps the language of the Message (Bible) current and fresh and understandable". Peterson notes that in the course of the project, he realized this was exactly what he had been doing in his thirty-five years as a pastor, "always looking for an English way to make the biblical text relevant to the conditions of the people".