The Scofield Reference Bible is a widely circulated study Bible edited and annotated by the American Bible student Cyrus I. Scofield, which popularized dispensationalism at the beginning of the 20th century. Published by Oxford University Press and containing the entire text of the traditional, Protestant King James Version, it first appeared in 1909 and was revised by the author in 1917.
Cover of a 1917 edition of the Scofield Bible presented as a gift in 1941.
Scofield Reference Bible, page 1115. This page includes Scofield's note on John 1:17.
Notes in the 1917 Scofield Bible
Cyrus Ingerson Scofield was an American theologian, minister, and writer whose best-selling annotated Bible popularized futurism and dispensationalism among fundamentalist Christians.
C. I. Scofield, c. 1920