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John 16:3

First Nations Version

all because they do not know me or my Father.

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“The people who walk in the ways of this world will do this to you because you walk in my ways, representing me. This shows they do not know the one who sent me.


“O Father of all that is good and right, the world does not know you, but I know you, and my followers know you sent me.


he will punish the ones who refuse to see who Creator truly is, and those who do not respect and follow the good story of our Honored Chief Creator Sets Free (Jesus).


You do not truly know him, but I do. If I were to say, ‘I do not know him,’ I would be a liar, like you! But I know him deeply and walk in all his ways.


“Where is your Father?” they said back to him. “You do not know me or my Father,” he told them. “If you knew me, you would know who my Father is.”


Those who do not love do not know him, for the Great Spirit is love.


Behold the greatness of the love shown to us by our Father the Great Spirit that he would call us his children! And so we are! The ones who belong to the ways of this world do not know the Giver of Life, so they do not see us in this way.


This life comes from knowing you, the only true and Great Spirit, and from knowing the Chosen One, Creator Sets Free (Jesus), the one you have sent into this world.


We also know that the Son of the Great Spirit has come. He has given us a way to know the True One. It is through his Son, Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One, that we are in harmony with the True One. This is the one true Great Spirit and the life of the world to come that never fades away, full of beauty and harmony.


None of the rulers of this present world have understood this wisdom. If they had, they never would have killed our great and shining Honored Chief.


If I had not done the things no one else has done, they would have no guilt. But now they have seen with their own eyes and hated me and my Father.


He then turned to the seventy who walked the road with him and said, “My Father has put everything into my hands. Only the Father knows the Son, and only the Son knows the Father. No one can truly know the Father in his fullness unless the Son makes him known.”


He chose me even though I used to speak evil against him. I even hunted down and attacked his followers. But he took pity on me because I did not know what I was doing and did not yet believe who he was.


“Fellow Tribal Members,” he said, “I understand that neither you nor your leaders knew what they were doing when they had Creator Sets Free (Jesus)killed.


The ones who deny the Son do not have the Father. The ones who speak well of the Son have the Father also.





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