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    The Book of John (2020 Edition): Eternal Love
    The Book of John (2020 Edition): Eternal Love
    The Book of John (2020 Edition): Eternal Love
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    The Book of John (2020 Edition): Eternal Love

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    The book of John reveals Jesus Christ as the Son of God, the One who is the divine self-expression and fullness of God's glory. John was a prophet, a seer, a lover, an evangelist, an author, an apostle, and a son of thunder.


     


    While the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke provide the history of Christ, John's Gospel unveils the mystery of Christ. We experience Jesus as the Lamb of God, the Good Shepherd, the Kind Forgiver, the Tender Healer, the Compassionate Intercessor, and the Great I Am. Full of miracles, living truths, and wondrous works, the Gospel of John brings a heavenly perspective filled with inspiring revelations in every verse.


     


    To read John's Gospel is to encounter Jesus. Our lives will never be the same once we enter the great magnificence of his presence and sit enthroned with him.


     


    "All you thirsty ones, come to me! Come to me and drink! Believe in me so that rivers of living water will burst out from within you, flowing from your innermost being, just like the Scripture says!"


    John 7:37–38


     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBroadStreet Publishing Group, LLC
    Release dateJan 4, 2022
    ISBN9781424563272
    The Book of John (2020 Edition): Eternal Love
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    Brian Simmons

    DR. BRIAN SIMMONS is a passionate lover of God. After a dramatic conversion to Christ, Brian knew that God was calling him to go to the unreached people of the world and present the gospel of God’s grace to all who would listen. With his wife, Candice, and their three children, he spent eight years in the tropical rain forest of the Darien Province of Panama as a church planter, translator, and consultant. Having been trained in linguistics and Bible translation principles, Brian assisted in the Paya-Kuna New Testament translation project. After his ministry overseas, Brian was instrumental in planting a thriving church in New England (U.S.) and currently travels full time as a speaker and Bible teacher. He is the lead translator of The Passion Translation®.

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      The Book of John (2020 Edition) - Brian Simmons

      The Passion Translation®

      John: Eternal Love

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Cover

      Title Page

      Copyright Information

      A Note to Readers

      John

      Your Personal Invitation to Follow Jesus

      About the Translator

      A NOTE TO READERS

      It would be impossible to calculate how many lives have been changed forever by the power of the Bible, the living Word of God! My own life was transformed because I believed the message contained in Scripture about Jesus, the Savior.

      To hold the Bible dear to your heart is the sacred obsession of every true follower of Jesus. Yet to go even further and truly understand the Bible is how we gain light and truth to live by. Did you catch the word understand? People everywhere say the same thing: I want to understand God’s Word, not just read it.

      Thankfully, as English speakers, we have a plethora of Bible translations, commentaries, study guides, devotionals, churches, and Bible teachers to assist us. Our hearts crave to know God—to not just know about him, but to know him as intimately as we possibly can in this life. This is what makes Bible translations so valuable, because each one will hopefully lead us into new discoveries of God’s character. I believe God is committed to giving us truth in a package we can understand and apply, so I thank God for every translation of God’s Word that we have.

      God’s Word does not change, but over time languages definitely do, thus the need for updated and revised translations of the Bible. Translations give us the words God spoke through his servants, but words can be poor containers for revelation because they leak! Meaning is influenced by culture, background, and many other details. Just imagine how differently the Hebrew authors of the Old Testament saw the world three thousand years ago from the way we see it today!

      Even within one language and culture, meanings of words change from one generation to the next. For example, many contemporary Bible readers would be quite surprised to find unicorns are mentioned nine times in the King James Version (KJV). Here’s one instance in Isaiah 34:7: And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. This isn’t a result of poor translation, but rather an example of how our culture, language, and understanding of the world has shifted over the past few centuries. So, it is important that we have a modern English text of the Bible that releases revelation and truth into our hearts. The Passion Translation (TPT) is committed to bringing forth the potency of God’s Word in relevant, contemporary vocabulary that doesn’t distract from its meaning or distort it in any way. So many people have told us that they are falling in love with the Bible again as they read TPT.

      We often hear the statement, I just want a word-for-word translation that doesn’t mess it up or insert a bias. That’s a noble desire. But a word-for-word translation would be nearly unreadable. It is simply impossible to translate one Hebrew word for one English word. Hebrew is built from triliteral consonant roots. Biblical Hebrew had no vowels or punctuation. And Koine Greek, although wonderfully articulate, cannot always be conveyed in English by a word-for-word translation. For example, a literal word-for-word translation of the Greek in Matthew 1:18 would be something like this: Of the but Jesus Christ the birth thus was. Being betrothed the mother of him, Mary, to Joseph, before or to come together them she was found in belly having from Spirit Holy.

      Even the KJV, which many believe to be a very literal translation, renders this verse: Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.

      This comparison makes the KJV look like a paraphrase next to a strictly literal translation! To some degree, every Bible translator is forced to move words around in a sentence to convey with meaning the thought of the verse. There is no such thing as a truly literal translation of the Bible, for there is not an equivalent language that perfectly conveys the meaning of the biblical text. Is it really possible to have a highly accurate and highly readable English Bible? We certainly hope so! It is so important that God’s Word is living in our hearts, ringing in our ears, and burning in our souls. Transferring God’s revelation from Hebrew and Greek into English is an art, not merely a linguistic science. Thus, we need all the accurate translations we can find. If a verse or passage in one translation seems confusing, it is good to do a side-by-side comparison with another version.

      It is difficult to say which translation is the best. Best is often in the eyes of the reader and is determined by how important differing factors are to different people. However, the best translation, in my thinking, is the one that makes the Word of God clear and accurate, no matter how many words it takes to express it.

      That’s the aim of The Passion Translation: to bring God’s eternal truth into a highly readable heart-level expression that causes truth and love to jump out of the text and lodge inside our hearts. A desire to remain accurate to the text and a desire to communicate God’s heart of passion for his people are the two driving forces behind TPT. So for those new to Bible reading, we hope TPT will excite and illuminate. For scholars and Bible students, we hope TPT will bring the joys of new discoveries from the text and prompt deeper consideration of what God has spoken to his people. We all have so much more to learn and discover about God in his holy Word!

      You will notice at times we’ve italicized certain words or phrases. These portions are not in the original Hebrew, Greek, or Aramaic manuscripts but are implied from the context. We’ve made these implications explicit for the sake of narrative clarity and to better convey the meaning of God’s Word. This is a common practice by mainstream translations.

      We’ve also chosen to translate certain names in their original Hebrew or Greek forms to better convey their cultural meaning and significance. For instance, some translations of the Bible have substituted James for Jacob and Jude for Judah. Both Greek and Aramaic manuscripts leave these Hebrew names in their original forms. Therefore, this translation uses those cultural names.

      The purpose of The Passion Translation is to reintroduce the passion and fire of the Bible to the English reader. It doesn’t merely convey the literal meaning of words. It expresses God’s passion for people and his world by translating the original, life-changing message of God’s Word for modern readers.

      We pray this version of God’s Word will kindle in you a burning desire to know the heart of God, while impacting the church for years to come.

      Please visit ThePassionTranslation.com for more information.

      Brian Simmons and the translation team

      JOHN

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      Introduction • One • Two • Three • Four • Five • Six • Seven • Eight • Nine • Ten • Eleven • Twelve • Thirteen • Fourteen • Fifteen • Sixteen • Seventeen • Eighteen • Nineteen • Twenty • Twenty-One

      JOHN

      Introduction

      AT A GLANCE

      Author: The apostle John

      Audience: Diaspora Jews and believers.

      Date: AD 80–85, though possibly 50–55.

      Type of Literature: Ancient historical biography

      Major Themes: The person and work of Jesus, salvation, the Holy Spirit, and the end of the age

      Outline:

      Prologue —1:1–18

      The Testimony of John the Baptist — 1:19–51

      The New Order in Jesus — 2:1–4:42

      Jesus as the Mediator of Life and Judgment — 4:43–5:47

      Jesus as the Bread of Life — 6:1–71

      Jesus as the Water and Light of Life — 7:1–8:59

      Jesus as the Light and Shepherd to Humanity — 9:1–10:42

      Jesus as the Resurrection and the Life — 11:1–54

      Jesus as the Triumphant King — 11:55–12:50

      Jesus’ Ministry to His Disciples before Death — 13:1–17:26

      Jesus’ Death and Resurrection — 18:1–20:31

      Epilogue — 21:1–25

      ABOUT JOHN

      How God longs for us to know him! We discover him as we read and study his living Word. But the Word is not just dead letters; it’s the Living Expression of God, Jesus Christ. The Word came with skin on as the perfect Man—the One who is the divine self-expression and fullness of God’s glory; he is God in the flesh!

      The New Testament, at its beginning, presents four biographies to portray the four primary aspects of this all-glorious Christ. The Gospel of Matthew testifies that he is the King, the Christ of God according to the prophecies of the Old Testament, the One who brings the kingdom of the heavens to earth. The Gospel of Mark presents him as the Love-Slave of God, the perfect servant who labors faithfully for God. Mark’s account is the most simple, for a servant doesn’t need a detailed record. The Gospel of Luke presents a full picture of Christ as the true Man and the compassionate Savior of everyone who comes to him. And the Gospel of John unveils him as the Son of God, the very God himself, to be life to God’s people.

      We find miracles everywhere in the Gospel of John! Water became wine. Blind eyes were blessed with sight. Even the dead rose to walk again when Jesus lived among men. Every miracle was a sign to make us wonder about who this man truly is. The Gospel of John brings us a heavenly perspective filled with wonderful revelations in every verse. Nothing in the Bible compares to the writings of John. He was a prophet, a seer, a lover, an evangelist, an author, an apostle, and a son of thunder.

      The other three gospels give us the history of Christ, but John writes to unveil the mystery of Christ. Jesus is seen as the sacrificial Lamb of God, the Good Shepherd, the Kind Forgiver, the Tender Healer, the Compassionate Intercessor, and the great I AM. Who can resist this man when he tugs on your heart to come to him? To read John’s Gospel is to encounter Jesus. Make this your goal as you read.

      There are three things that are important to remember about John, the author of this Gospel: First, John passionately followed Jesus Christ. He saw the miracles of Jesus firsthand and heard the anointed words he taught. He followed Jesus wholeheartedly, and became one of Christ’s apostolic servants.

      Secondly, John described himself as the disciple whom Jesus loved (John 21:7, 20). This does not mean that Jesus loved John more than the others; but rather, John saw himself as one that Jesus loved. You could also say about yourself, I am the disciple whom Jesus loves! Every single believer can echo John’s description of himself, for these words must become the true definition of our identity.

      Love unlocks mysteries. As we love Jesus, our hearts are unlocked to see more of his beauty and glory. When we stop defining ourselves by our failures, but rather as the one whom Jesus loves, then our hearts begin to open to the breathtaking discovery of the wonder of Jesus Christ. Jesus does not see us in

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