The New World Translation (NWT): A Distorted Witness. The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (NWT) is the official Bible produced by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society for the Jehovah’s Witnesses. First published in its New Testament form in 1950, and in complete form by 1961, the NWT has undergone revisions in 1984 and 2013. Unlike reputable translations produced by broad committees of biblical scholars, the NWT was created anonymously by members of the Watchto