Lü Zhenzhong

Lü Chen Chung (; 13 April 1898 – 10 March 1988) was a Chinese Anglican priest, university lecturer and Bible translator. With full support from British Presbyterian missionary Alan S. Moore Anderson, the three orphans enrolled into Pei Yuan Middle School in Quanzhou, which Anderson had established in 1904. With exceptional results from his studies, Lü received scholarship to study at University of Hong Kong in 1916 and graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in 1921. He went back to his alma mater, Pei Yuan Middle School to teach for one year and married his wife Huang Luo Qi then. which allowed him to be an effective Hebrew Bible translator later in life.

Career Upon graduating from Yenching in 1925, Lü returned to Fujian and took up the vice-principal position at in Gulangyu, Xiamen. In 1940, Lü went to back to his alma mater, Yenching University with his family to start the translation work.

For the 1970 translation of the Bible which was published in Hong Kong, the revised translation of the New Testament, was translated from the 17th edition of Eberhard Nestle's Novum Testamentum Graece, At the same time, John was also a faculty at the Trinity Theological College of Singapore, delivering lessons in Chinese. John died in 2000.

In 1983, Lü migrated to Singapore and lived with John. Lü died at age 89 in Singapore on 10 March 1988.