About The Sunday School Bible

Bruce Benedict, Founder

If you've ever opened a Bible, read a column or two, and quietly closed it again—I understand. For most of my life, that was me.

I grew up in a Christian family. I went to church every Sunday, attended Sunday school with my friends, went to summer Bible school, and was baptized. I served twenty-one years in the U.S. Army, retiring as a Major, and continued that service as a Senior Civilian with the federal government. My service took me around the world—postings in Panama, Japan, and Germany, and deployments to Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, and Qatar—and through all of it I carried a small Bible in my cargo pocket. Everywhere I went, I saw believers of many nations and cultures holding fast to God's Word, and I believed—deeply—that its words were holy and worth living by. And yet, every time I tried to read it, I could get through one column, a few lines of old English, or a list of unfamiliar names before I closed it and put it away. I believed the Bible. I just couldn't read it.

I don't think I'm alone in that. Many of us love God and long to know His Word, but the dense two-column pages, the small print, and the unfamiliar language make it feel distant—so we hesitate to ask questions, and too often we stay on the sidelines, quietly trying to be good people. I never wanted anyone to feel that way again.

The King James Version is one of the most beautiful and faithful translations ever produced, carrying centuries of poetic power and spiritual depth—its difficulty was never in its truth, only in its presentation. Everything changed for me when I finally read Scripture laid out simply—plain paragraphs, one page at a time—and it began to open up. I decided to start at the very beginning, in Genesis, and I was amazed: not only the creation of the world, but story after story, in order, full of life. But I didn't want someone else's opinion of what the Bible said—I wanted to know what God actually said. So, with the same discipline and reverence my years of service taught me, I set out to build the Bible I wished I'd had—because Scripture deserves nothing less than precision and care.

The Sunday School Bible is that Bible. It is the beloved King James Version—faithful to the text and checked against the Masoretic Hebrew—reformatted into a clear, readable outline.

But it does more than make Scripture easier to read; it helps you see Christ on every page. The spoken words of God and of Jesus are set in red, so you can see exactly what He said. The bloodline leading to Jesus is traced in purple through the generations—so plainly you can follow it through both Mary and Joseph. And the moments where many believe Christ Himself steps onto the pages of the Old Testament are marked for you to discover. The genealogies that once made me stumble are laid out in simple charts, because I came to see that everyone the Bible names is there for a reason. What began, for me, as an easier read became an unmistakable encounter with the Savior woven through all of Scripture.

The work has grown beyond a single book. The series now spans multiple volumes of the Pentateuch, with a bilingual English/Urdu edition—translated in partnership with Pastor Irfan Shoukat—bringing this same clarity to readers and congregations beyond the English-speaking world.

My prayer is simple: to make the eternal, life-changing truth of God's Word clear, engaging, and deeply personal for every heart—whether in a bustling Sunday School classroom, a quiet family devotional, or your own private study; that children around the world can pick it up and read it with ease; and that as you do, you would feel God speak to you, drawing you closer to Him and to His Son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

The result is a Bible that doesn't just sit on the shelf. It's a Bible that's opened, read, felt, understood, and treasured.

Welcome to The Sunday School Bible—where timeless truth becomes wonderfully accessible.