The “Overview” of the Geneva Bible states that “Some of history’s most influential men, such as William Shakespeare, Oliver Cromwell, John Milton, John Knox, and John Bunyan, used the Geneva Bible.” I am unsure of significance of this statement, for example, re John Bunyan (and perhaps Milton). Does this mean he merely “used” the Geneva as a Bible, or that Bunyan used the Geneva Bible instead of the King James Version? The latter idea seems to be an urban legend easily found on the internet. What I have seen supporting Bunyan’s use of the Geneva Bible as his primary Bible does not seem very substantial. In fact, the writings of Bunyan himself give ample proof that he was primarily using the King James translation rather than Geneva – based on his Bible quotations, references to marginal readings, and so forth.