From e59a74f550256ee812249dd870390c65aeed862c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: BramvandenHeuvel Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 12:59:28 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update 01.usfm --- 44-JHN/01.usfm | 13 ------------- 1 file changed, 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/44-JHN/01.usfm b/44-JHN/01.usfm index 1a9d9626..4bb31658 100644 --- a/44-JHN/01.usfm +++ b/44-JHN/01.usfm @@ -8,14 +8,12 @@ \s5 \v 4 All life is in the Word, so he could give life to everything and everyone. The Word was God's light that shone on everyone, everywhere. - \v 5 This light shone in the darkness, and the darkness tried to put it out, but it could not. \s5 \p \v 6 God sent a man named John. \v 7 He came to testify to the people about the light. What he said was true, and he proclaimed that message so that everyone might believe. - \v 8 John himself was not the light, but he came to tell people about the light. \s5 @@ -24,18 +22,15 @@ \s5 \p \v 10 The Word was in the world and, although he had made the world, none of its people knew who he was. - \v 11 Although he came to the world he owned, and even to his own people, the Jews, they rejected him. \s5 \v 12 But all who took him into their lives and trusted in him, to them he gave the right to become God's children. - \v 13 These are children born from God. They were not born by means of a normal human birth nor out of a human desire or choice nor because of a husband's desire to become a father. \s5 \p \v 14 Now the Word became a real human being and lived here where we live for a while. We have seen him display his splendid and amazing nature, the nature of the one and only Son of the Father, who shows us that God loves us faithfully and teaches us about his truth. - \p \v 15 One day John the Baptizer was telling people about the Word, and Jesus came to him. John shouted to the crowd around him, "I told you someone would come after me, someone who is much more important than I am. He existed long before me, eternal ages, before I was born. This man here! This is that man I was talking about!" @@ -44,8 +39,6 @@ \v 17 Moses proclaimed God's laws to the Jewish people. Jesus Christ was kind to us far beyond what we deserved and taught us true things about God. \v 18 No one has ever seen God. But God's only Son, Jesus Christ, who is always close to the Father, he has made us know him. - - \s5 \p \v 19 This is what John gave as his testimony: The Jews sent priests and the Levites from Jerusalem; they came to ask John, "Who are you?" @@ -68,8 +61,6 @@ John answered, "No." \p \v 28 These things happened at the village of Bethany over on the east side of the Jordan River. That is the place where John was baptizing. - - \s5 \p \v 29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him. He said to the people, "Look! The Lamb of God, who will give his life as a sacrifice to take away the sins of the world. @@ -82,8 +73,6 @@ John answered, "No." \v 33 At first, I myself did not know him, but God sent me to baptize people with water, people who said they wanted to turn from their sinful ways. God told me, 'The man on whom you will see my Spirit descend and remain is the one who will baptize all of you with the Holy Spirit.' \v 34 I have seen and I bear witness to you that he is the Son of God." - - \s5 \p \v 35 John the Baptizer was at the same place again the next day with two of his disciples. @@ -100,8 +89,6 @@ John answered, "No." \v 41 Andrew first went off to find his brother Simon. When he came to him, he said, "We have found the Messiah (which means 'Christ')!" \v 42 Andrew took Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked intently at Peter, and said, "You are Simon. Your father's name is John. You will be given the name Cephas." Cephas is an Aramaic name that means 'solid rock.' (Peter means the same thing in Greek.) - - \s5 \p \v 43 The next day Jesus decided to leave the Jordan River valley. He went to the region around Galilee and found a man named Philip. Jesus said to him, "Come with me."