Hungarian: Preserving a Faithful Witness to God’s Word

Location: Hungary
Speakers: 13 million
Project Status:  Gospel
Christian Population: 42%

The first Bible published in Hungarian was the work of Calvinist pastor Gáspár Károli, the ‘Tyndale of Hungary’. He began translating the Scriptures in 1586 and may have received assistance from other scholars. His edition is also known as the Vizsoly Bible, after the village in which it was printed. His translation has been of great significance not only to Hungarian Christianity, but also to Hungarian language and literature.

In 2025 we began a revision of the 1908 Karoli Bible, beginning with the Gospel according to John. The Gospel is nearly finished and we pray that it will be published in 2026, Lord willing.

How to pray for this project:

• Pray for the Hungarian revision team as they finish the Gospel, before submitting it to TBS for further analysis.
• Pray for Hungarian Christians to see the need for a faithful and accurately translated version of God’s Word, and for churches to adopt it as their translation.