Forest Deal on John

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-\v 19 Long ago you spoke in a vision to your faithful ones; \f + \ft Many mss have the singular \fqa faithful one \fqa* instead of \fqa faithful ones \fqa* . \f* 
+\v 19 Long ago you spoke in a vision to your faithful ones; \f + \ft Many ancient copies of the Hebrew text have the singular \fqa faithful one \fqa* instead of \fqa faithful ones \fqa* . \f* 
 \q you said, "I have set a crown on a mighty one." \f + \ft The ancient copies of the Hebrew text has \fqa I will place help upon a warrior \fqa* . Some scholars translate the word for \fqa help \fqa* as \fqa crown \fqa* and that is how the ULB editors have translated the word here. \f* 
 \q I have raised up one chosen from among the people.
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 \v 1 After this there was a Jewish festival, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
-\v 2 Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which in Hebrew is called Bethesda, and it has five roofed porches.
+\v 2 Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda, and it has five roofed porches.
 \v 3 A large number of people who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed were lying there. \f + \ft The best ancient copies do not have the phrase, \fqa waiting for the moving of the water \fqa*. \f*
 \v 4 \f + \ft The best ancient copies do not have verse 4, \fqa For an angel of the Lord went down and stirred up the water at certain times and whoever stepped in while the water was stirring was healed from whatever disease he suffered from \fqa*. \f*
 
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 \v 19 I tell you this now before it happens so that when it happens, you may believe that I AM.
-\v 20 Truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I sent, receives me, and he who receives me, receives him who sent me."
+\v 20 Truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I sent receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me."
 
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 \v 18 I will not leave you alone; I will come back to you.
-\v 19 Yet a short amount of time and the world will no longer see me, but you see me. Because I live, you will also live.
+\v 19 Yet a short amount of time and the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Because I live, you will also live.
 \v 20 On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and that you are in me, and that I am in you.
 
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 \v 12 This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
-\v 13 No one has greater love than this—that he lay down his life for his friends.
+\v 13 No one has greater love than this—that one lays down his life for his friends.
 
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 \v 14 You are my friends if you do the things that I command you.
-\v 15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
+\v 15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father I have made known to you.
 
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 \v 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain. This is so that whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
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 \v 22 So you have sadness now, but I will see you again, and your heart will be glad, and no one will be able to take away your joy from you.
 \v 23 On that day you will not ask me anything. Truly, truly, I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
-\v 24 Until now you have not asked anything in my name. Ask, and you will receive so that your joy will be fulfilled.
+\v 24 Until now you have not asked anything in my name. Ask, and you will receive so that your joy will be fulfilled."
 
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-\v 25 I have said these things to you in figures of speech, but the hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech, but instead I will tell you plainly about the Father.
+\v 25 "I have said these things to you in figures of speech, but the hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech, but instead I will tell you plainly about the Father.
 
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 \v 26 On that day you will ask in my name and I do not say to you that I will pray to the Father for you,
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 \v 15 Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple. Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and he entered with Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest;
-\v 16 but Peter was standing at the door outside. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the female doorkeeper and he brought Peter in.
+\v 16 but Peter was standing at the door outside. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, he went out and spoke to the girl who kept watch at the door, and he brought Peter in.
 
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 \v 17 Then the female servant, the doorkeeper, said to Peter, "Are you not also one of the disciples of this man?" He said, "I am not."
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 \v 25 Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. The people then said to him, "Are you not also one of his disciples?" He denied it and said, "I am not."
 \v 26 One of the servants of the high priest, who was a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Did I not see you in the garden with him?"
-\v 27 Peter then denied again, and immediately the rooster crowed.
+\v 27 Then Peter denied him again; and immediately the rooster crowed.
 
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-\v 28 Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the government headquarters. It was early in the morning, and they did not enter the government headquarters so that they would not be defiled but would eat the Passover.
+\v 28 Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the government headquarters. It was early in the morning, and they did not enter the government headquarters so that they would not be defiled but would be able to eat the Passover.
 \v 29 So Pilate went out to them and said, "What accusation are you bringing against this man?"
 \v 30 They answered and said to him, "If this man was not an evildoer, we would not have given him over to you."
 
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 \v 38 Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews and said to them, "I find no guilt in this man.
 \v 39 But you have the custom that I release one person to you at the Passover. So do you want me to release the King of the Jews to you?"
-\v 40 Then they cried out again and said, "Not this man, but Barabbas." Now Barabbas was a robber.
+\v 40 Then they cried out again and said, "Not this man, but Barabbas." Now Barabbas was a revolutionary.
 
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 \v 4 Then Pilate went outside again and said to them, "See, I am bringing him outside to you so that you will know that I find no guilt in him."
 \v 5 So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, "Look, here is the man!"
-\v 6 When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw Jesus, they cried out and said, "Crucify him, crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no guilt in him."
+\v 6 When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw Jesus, they cried out and said, "Crucify him, crucify him!" 
+\q Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no guilt in him."
 
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 \v 7 The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and according to that law he has to die because he claimed to be the Son of God."
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 \v 12 At this answer, Pilate tried to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, "If you release this man, you are not a friend of Caesar. Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar."
-\v 13 When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down in the judgment seat in a place called "The Pavement," but in Hebrew, "Gabbatha."
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+\v 13 When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down in the judgment seat in a place called "The Pavement," but in Aramaic, "Gabbatha."
 
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 \v 14 Now it was the day of preparation for the Passover, at about the sixth hour. Pilate said to the Jews, "See, here is your king!"
-\v 15 They cried out, "Away with him, away with him; crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Should I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar."
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+\v 15 They cried out, "Away with him, away with him; crucify him!" 
+\q Pilate said to them, "Should I crucify your King?" 
+\q The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar."
 \v 16 Then Pilate gave Jesus over to them to be crucified.
 
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-\v 17 Then they took Jesus, and he went out, carrying the cross for himself, to the place called "The Place of a Skull," which in Hebrew is called "Golgotha."
+\v 17 Then they took Jesus, and he went out, carrying the cross for himself, to the place called "The Place of a Skull," which in Aramaic is called "Golgotha."
 \v 18 They crucified Jesus there, and with him two other men, one on each side, with Jesus in the middle.
 
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 \v 19 Pilate also wrote a sign and put it on the cross. There it was written: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
-\v 20 Many of the Jews read this sign because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city. The sign was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.
+\v 20 Many of the Jews read this sign because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city. The sign was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek.
 
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 \v 21 Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Do not write, 'The King of the Jews,' but rather, 'This one said, "I am King of the Jews."'"
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 \v 22 Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written."
 
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 \v 2 So she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and she said to them, "They took away the Lord out from the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him."
 
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-\v 3 Then Peter and the other disciple went out, and they went to the tomb.
+\v 3 Then Peter and the other disciple went out, and they were going to the tomb.
 \v 4 They both ran together, and the other disciple quickly ran ahead of Peter and arrived at the tomb first.
 \v 5 Then stooping down, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go inside.
 
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 \v 11 But Mary was standing outside the tomb weeping. As she wept, she stooped down into the tomb.
 \v 12 She saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at the foot of where the body of Jesus had lain.
-\v 13 They said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "Because they took away my Lord, and I do not know where they have put him."
+\v 13 They said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" 
+\q She said to them, "Because they took away my Lord, and I do not know where they have put him."
 
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 \v 14 When she said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus.
-\v 15 Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?" She thought that he was the gardener, so she said to him, "Sir, if you have taken him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him away."
+\v 15 Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?" 
+\q She thought that he was the gardener, so she said to him, "Sir, if you have taken him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him away."
 
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-\v 16 Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned, and said to him in Hebrew, "Rabboni" (which means "Teacher").
+\v 16 Jesus said to her, "Mary." 
+\q She turned, and said to him in Aramaic, "Rabboni" (which means "Teacher").
 \v 17 Jesus said to her, "Do not touch me, for I have not yet gone up to the Father, but go to my brothers and say to them that I will go up to my Father and your Father, and my God and your God."
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 \v 18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples, "I have seen the Lord," and that he had said these things to her.
 
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-\v 19 When it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of where the disciples were, were closed for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle of them and said to them, "Peace to you."
+\v 19 When it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, the doors were closed in the place where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle of them and said to them, "Peace to you."
 \v 20 After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.
 
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 \v 24 Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.
-\v 25 The other disciples later said to him, "We have seen the Lord." He said to them, "Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and put my finger into the mark of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe."
+\v 25 The other disciples later said to him, "We have seen the Lord." 
+\q He said to them, "Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and put my finger into the mark of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe."
 
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 \v 26 After eight days his disciples were inside again, and Thomas was with them. Jesus came while the doors were closed, and stood among them, and said, "Peace to you."
 \v 27 Then he said to Thomas, "Reach here with your finger and see my hands. Reach here with your hand and put it into my side. Do not be unbelieving, but believe."
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 \v 28 Thomas answered and said to him, "My Lord and my God."
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 \v 29 Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and believed."
 
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 \v 1 After these things Jesus showed himself again to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberias. This is how he showed himself:
 \v 2 Simon Peter was together with Thomas called Didymus, Nathaniel from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples of Jesus.
-\v 3 Simon Peter said to them, "I am going fishing." They said to him, "We, too, will come with you." They went and got into a boat, but they caught nothing during the whole night.
+\v 3 Simon Peter said to them, "I am going fishing." 
+\q They said to him, "We, too, will come with you." They went and got into a boat, but they caught nothing during the whole night.
 
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 \v 4 Now, when it was already early in the morning, Jesus stood on the beach, but the disciples did not know it was Jesus.
-\v 5 So Jesus said to them, "Young men, do you have anything to eat?" They answered him, "No."
+\v 5 So Jesus said to them, "Young men, do you have anything to eat?" 
+\q They answered him, "No."
 \v 6 He said to them, "Throw your net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some." So they threw their net and were not able to draw it in because of the large number of fish.
 
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 \v 10 Jesus said to them, "Bring some of the fish that you have just caught."
-\v 11 Simon Peter then went up and drew the net to land, full of large fish; 153. There were so many, but the net was not torn.
+\v 11 Simon Peter then went up and drew the net to land, full of large fish, 153 of them, but even with so many, the net was not torn.
 
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-\v 12 Jesus said to them, "Come and eat breakfast." None of the disciples dared ask him, "Who are you?" They knew it was the Lord.
+\v 12 Jesus said to them, "Come and eat breakfast." 
+\q None of the disciples dared ask him, "Who are you?" They knew it was the Lord.
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 \v 13 Jesus came, took the bread, and gave it to them, and the fish also.
 \v 14 This was the third time that Jesus showed himself to the disciples after he had risen from the dead.
 
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-\v 15 After they ate breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?" Peter said to him, "Yes Lord, you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my lambs."
-\v 16 He said to him again a second time, "Simon son of John, do you love me?" Peter said to him, "Yes Lord, you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Take care of my sheep."
+\v 15 After they ate breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?" 
+\q Peter said to him, "Yes Lord, you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my lambs."
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+\v 16 He said to him again a second time, "Simon son of John, do you love me?" 
+\q Peter said to him, "Yes Lord, you know that I love you." 
+\q Jesus said to him, "Take care of my sheep."
 
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-\v 17 He said to him a third time, "Simon son of John, do you love me?" Peter was sad because Jesus had said to him a third time, "Do you love me?" He said to him, "Lord, you know all things, you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.
+\v 17 He said to him a third time, "Simon son of John, do you love me?" 
+\q Peter was sad because Jesus had said to him a third time, "Do you love me?" He said to him, "Lord, you know all things, you know that I love you." 
+\q Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.
 \v 18 Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young, you used to clothe yourself and walk wherever you wanted, but when you become old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will clothe you and carry you where you will not want to go."
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 \v 19 Now Jesus said this in order to indicate with what kind of death Peter would glorify God. After he had said this, he said to Peter, "Follow me."
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 \v 20 Peter turned around and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them, the one who had also leaned back against the side of Jesus at the dinner and who had said, "Lord, who is the one who will betray you?"
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 \v 22 Jesus said to him, "If I want him to stay until I come, what is that to you? Follow me."
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 \v 23 So this statement spread among the brothers, that that disciple would not die. Yet Jesus did not say to Peter that the other disciple would not die, but, "If I want him to stay until I come, what is that to you?"
 
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