Per protestia.com, the ESV was first published by Crossway in 2001, meaning it was impossible for Grace Martin to have gifted an ESV to Mark Driscoll 30 some years ago. It could have been a New American Standard Version, a Revised Standard Version or even the Common English Bible and that would have been possible. The ESV, however, didn't exist 30 years ago.
The Instagram status in question was date-stamped March 21, apparently this year. Whether it is still up and available or whether, as often happened with Mark Driscoll media material circa 2013-2014, it was de-published or purged would have to be verified by people who actually go to Instagram.
Nobody bothered, it seemed, to provide a hard-link to confirm that 1) the post was up or 2) whether the material may have been replicated elsewhere. Should you be curious about just how extensively Mars Hill church was using robots.txt to preclude people finding stuff from Driscoll's old sermons and media presence that might have made him come off badly there's actually a dedicated tag for that. There was a good stretch in 2013-2014 where I would chronicle things Driscoll said from the pulpit or on The Resurgence and stuff would just vanish.
So if Driscoll published the image of an ESV that was allegedly given him 30 years ago by Grace and the Instagram update has gone missing, well, there's some history to that pattern.
Driscoll's gone back to having facial hair ... which may be just as well because there was a stretch of time a few years ago where he went clean-shaven and maybe someone told him that at his current age he looks like Pat Robertson when he's clean-shaven. I wouldn't blame Driscoll for not wanting to look like Pat Robertson.
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