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John 13:1

First Nations Version

The Passover festival was drawing near. Creator Sets Free (Jesus) knew it was time to leave this world and go back to his Father. His love for the ones who walked the road with him had always been great, and now, at the end, his love for them remained strong.

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He answered them, “It is time for the True Human Being to be lifted up to his place of honor.


We love because he first loved us.


“I am giving you a new road to walk,” he said. “In the same way I have loved you, you are to love each other.


You now believe that I came from the Great Spirit. Yes, I came into this world from the Father, and now I am leaving this world and returning to the Father.”


Creator Sets Free (Jesus) knew that his Father had put all things in his hands and that he had come from the Great Spirit and was returning to him.


Creator Sets Free (Jesus) knew all this would happen, yet he turned to the soldiers and asked, “Who have you come for?”


He will keep your feet on solid ground and guide you to the end of the trail so that you will have a good reputation when the day comes for our Honored Chief Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One to be revealed.


They no longer belong to the ways of this world, any more than I do.


When Creator Sets Free (Jesus) was finished speaking to his followers, he lifted his eyes to the spirit-world above and sent his voice to the Great Spirit. “O Great Father,” he prayed, “it is time for you to bring honor to your Son, so he may bring honor to you.


I also greet you from Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One. He is the honorable witness, the first to rise from among the dead, and the Grand Chief over all who rule on earth. All honor belongs to the one who loves us, the one who, by giving up his own lifeblood, set us free from our bad hearts and broken ways.


As long as we keep walking this road with firm steps from beginning to end, we will share in all the blessings of the Chosen One.


It is now time, my Father, for you to honor me with the beauty I shared at your side before you created all things.


He then returned to his followers and said to them, “Why are you still sleeping? The time is upon us! The True Human Being has been betrayed into the hands of the ones with bad hearts.


In light of all of this, stand ready in your mind to face what is ahead. Think clearly and set all your hope on the gift of great kindness that will be yours when Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One is revealed.


It is our desire that you walk with firm steps, keeping your eyes straight, as you travel this sure path of hope to its end.


But the Chosen One is Creator’s own Son, the headman who stayed true to the people of Creator’s lodge, and we are his people if we keep holding firmly and honorably to our hope in him.


But as we walk the path of the one who loved us, then, like him, we are greater and more powerful than all who come against us.


I have represented and will always represent who you truly are so that the love you have for me will be in them and I will live in them also.”


I told you I am going away and that I will come back. This should make your hearts glad if you truly love me, for I am going to the one who is greater than I am—to my Father, the One Above Us All.


It was time again for the traditional Festival of Bread Without Yeast, called Passover. Tribal Members would travel from their homelands to Village of Peace (Jerusalem). Many would arrive early to perform a purification ceremony to prepare for the festival.


The tribal leaders were looking for a way to arrest him, but no one could even lay a hand on him, for it was not yet his time.


Creator Sets Free (Jesus) answered them, “You are free to go anytime you want, for the people there do not hate you. But they do hate me, because I show them their bent and crooked ways.


Soon it would be time again for the yearly Passover festival for the tribes of Wrestles with Creator (Israel).


“Did I not sit with you every day in the sacred lodge? Why did you not take me then? This is your time, and you have given the powers of darkness their day.”


His work on earth was coming to an end, and Creator Sets Free (Jesus) would soon be returning to the spirit-world above. So he drew strength from deep within and made up his mind to go to the Sacred Village of Peace (Jerusalem) and finish what his Father sent him to do.


You will then teach them all the ways that I have instructed you to walk in.” Creator Sets Free (Jesus) then looked into their faces with love and great affection. He lifted his hands toward them and spoke these final blessing words over them. “Never forget,” he said as he began to rise up into the spirit-world above. “I will always be with you, your invisible guide, walking beside you, until the new age has fully come.” Aho! May it be so!


Creator Sets Free (Jesus) said these things at the sacred lodge, where he was teaching, near the storehouse where they keep the ceremonial gifts. No one laid a hand on him, for his time had not yet come. The people began to argue among themselves about him.


The time of the year had come for the ancient Passover festival. Creator Sets Free (Jesus) made his way to the Great Spirit’s lodge in Village of Peace (Jerusalem). This was the custom for all the families of the tribes of Wrestles with Creator (Israel). He came into the area in the lodge called Gathering Place for the Nations. It was here that other nations could come to learn about the Great Spirit and his ways.


Since he was the keeper of the money pouch, they thought he was going to pay for the ceremonial meal or give something to the poor.


but I must walk the path the Father has for me, so the world will know the great love I have for him. “Get up!” he said to them. “It is time for us to go from here.”


Creator Sets Free (Jesus), knowing he had done all the ancient Sacred Teachings had foretold, said, “I thirst.”





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