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Luke 7:33

First Nations Version

“Gift of Goodwill (John) did not feast or drink wine, but you say, ‘He has an evil spirit.’

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“He will be great and honorable in Creator’s sight and will not drink wine or any strong drink, but will drink deeply of the Holy Spirit even in his mother’s womb.


Gift of Goodwill (John) came wearing buffalo-skin garments, with a cowhide sash around his waist. The food he ate was grasshoppers and wild honey.


But others in the crowd just laughed and said, “They are drunk on new wine!”


Many were saying, “He has lost his mind and has an evil spirit. Why do we even listen to him?”


“Now we are sure you have an evil spirit,” they said. “Father of Many Nations (Abraham) and all the prophets crossed over to death. How can you say that the ones who walk in your word will not taste of death?


“Now we have the right to call you a mixed blood from High Place (Samaria) and one who has an evil spirit,” they said to him in anger.


Gift of Goodwill (John) came wearing a buffalo robe, with a deer-hide sash around his waist. The food he ate was grasshoppers and wild honey.


So consider it an honor that you will be treated the same as your Wisdomkeeper. If they have called the chief of the council house Worthless Ruler (Beelzebul), how much worse will they speak of the members of his council?


In those days a man named Gift of Goodwill (John) appeared in the desert places of the Land of Promise (Judea). He began to speak out a message that was loud and clear,


“They are like children at a trading post, teasing each other, saying, ‘You did not dance when we played the drum! You did not cry when we played a sad flute song.’


The True Human Being comes feasting and drinking and you say, ‘He eats too much and is a drunk, a friend of tribal tax collectors and outcasts with broken ways!’





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