The Pérez de Pineda New Testament was the second Spanish-language translation of the New Testament ever printed. Juan Pérez de Pineda was a Spanish scholar, author, and Protestant reformer. In the 1540s, he was forced to flee Spain for fear of the Inquisition, eventually settling in Geneva, where he befriended John Calvin. He completed his New Testament translation there in 1556, which was printed by Jean Crespin under a false imprint and then smuggled into Spain. While the Inquisition confiscated and destroyed many copies, Pérez de Pineda’s work nevertheless became important for later Spanish translations, such as Casiodoro de Reina’s “Bible of the Bear.”