Announcing: WORDS of ᏥᏌ [tsi-sa] Jesus In Red
The purpose for placing these words in RED is to single out the recorded words of Jesus Christ from the individual books and chapters of the New Testament for deeper study and insight, and to provide an example of 1st person language use/speaking in Cherokee.
Most Bibles have already done this by printing the words of Christ in red.
Our intention is NOT to separate Jesus from the Word of God since He is in-fact the Word of God and can never be separated from the whole (John 1:1-14),
HOWEVER- doing this is a tool; an aid to study; it is a study of the recorded words Christ spoke.
We are (in the process of) posting the Books with the Words of Jesus in RED.
Backgrounds of passages such as the Disciple's/aka Lord's Prayer are also highlighted.
Red letter edition Bibles are those in which words spoken by Jesus, commonly only while he was on the Earth, are printed in red ink.
This is not to be confused with the Red-Letter Christian movement, which emphasizes the teachings of Jesus in the Bible, particularly in regard to social justice.
The inspiration for printing the words of Jesus in red comes from
Luke 22:20 -
This cup is the new testament in my blood, which I shed for you.
....ᎯᎠ ᏄᏪᏎᎢ, ᎯᎠ ᎾᏍᎩ ᎤᎵᏍᏈᏗ ᎢᏤ ᎧᏃᎮᏛ ᏓᏠᎯᏍᏛᎢ ᎠᏴ ᎠᎩᎩᎬᎯ, ᎾᏍᎩ ᏂᎯ ᎢᏣᏤᏬᏤᎸᎯ ᏥᎩ.
....hi-a nu-we-se-i, hi-a na-s-gi u-li-s-qui-di i-tse ka-no-he-dv da-tlo-hi-s-dv-i a-yv a-gi-gi-gv-hi, na-s-gi ni-hi i-tsa-tse-wo-tse-lv-hi tsi-gi.
On June 19, 1899, Louis Klopsch, then editor of The Christian Herald magazine, conceived the idea while working on an editorial. Klopsch asked his mentor Rev. T. De Witt Talmage what he thought of a testament with the words spoken by Jesus printed in red ink and Dr. Talmage replied, "It could do no harm and it most certainly could do much good."
Klopsch published the first red-letter New Testament later in 1899.
The first red-letter Bible was published in 1901.
This style of Bible instantly became popular, and is sometimes favored by Protestant Christians in the United States, however, even Catholics now have a "red letter" edition, and more denominations use it now than ever before.
Especially in King James Bibles, this format of using the red letters can be useful, as quotation marks are not used in the old versions.
To see an example of the words of Jesus in Red, go to any of these books listed
here that contain the words of Jesus in RED
ᎹᏚ Matthew
ᎹᎩ Mark 1