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Cebuano News: DepEd padayong magpaluyo sa 'GO HERMIE organic vegetables production'
by Pat Nano
OROQUIETA CITY, Misamis Occidental, January 8, 2012 -- Usa ka dakong tabang sa mga tunghaang misalmot sa GO HERMIE Organic Vegetables Production competition ang nasangpit nga programa sanglit napanahon usab kini nga ang mga tunghaan ang nangandam usab sa ilang mga 'vegetables garden' alang sa 'Gulayan sa Paaralan competition.'

Ingon nga dakong tabang sanglit nahatagan sila sa pinansiyal nga ayuda alang sa pagpalambo pa sa ilang matag hardin ug mas nakadugang usab kini sa kadasig sa kabataan sa paghatag sa kamahinundanong pagpananom ug pagkaon sa bisan unsa nga mga utanon.

Kahinumduman nga niadtong milabayng bulan sa Abril 2011 gilusad ni Governor Hermie Ramiro ang GO HERMIE Organic Vegetables Production Competition nga adunay tulo ka mga kategoriya: household category, communal category ug school category nga diin gisalmotan sa mga tunghaan sa matag lungsod sa tibuok probinsya ug gipahigayon ang kahumanan niini niadtong milabayng bulan sa Disyembre sa samang tuig og ang nahimong mananaog mao ang Oroquieta City Central Elementary School.

Subay niini, mipadayag sa dakong kalipay si Edna Dumaog ang Education Program Supervisor sa Misamis Occidental Division ug mao usab gibutang nga Gulayan sa Paaralan Coordinator sa kaanindot sa programa ni Governor Ramiro nga nakatabang sa pagpalambo sa programa usab sa DepEd nga gulayan sa paaralan.

Sumala pa ni Dumaog nga mapasalamaton kaayo ang ilang buhatan sa kanunay nga suporta sa gobernadora sa ilang mga programa ug mapasaligon usab sila nga andam sila sa kanunay sa pagsuporta sa mga programa ni Governor Hermie Ramiro ilabina sa mga programa nga makahatag sa kaayuhan sa ilang kabataan.

Nasayran nga ang programa sa buhatan sa DepEd nga gulayan sa paaralan usa ka dakong tabang sa matag tunghaan sa ilang pagpahigayon nga 'feeding program' alang sa ilang mga tinun-an ug sanglit pinaagi niini nga programa nakunhuran ang malnutrisyon sa kabataan sa mga tunghaan sa tibuok probinsya. (PIO/PIA-10)

RDRRMC-Caraga issues General Flood Advisory; alerts local DRMMC
by Robert E. Roperos
BUTUAN CITY, Jan. 7, 2012 (PIA) -– The Caraga Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (RDRRMC) through the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) has issued a general flood advisory for the region.

According to the advisory, for the past 24 hours as of 8:00 a.m. today, rainfall is measured in Hinatuan at 9.2 millimeters, Butuan City at 16.6 millimeters, and Surigao – 36.0 millimeters.

The advisory also stated that moderate to occasionally heavy rains will occur for the next 24 hours, affecting waterways like water and streams and its tributaries in Surigao del Sur, Surigao del Norte, Agusan del Norte, Agusan del Sur and Dinagat Islands.

With this, RDRRMC advised the people living near the mountain slopes and in the low-lying areas of the aforementioned river systems to be alert.

RDRRMC also advised the local risk reduction and management councils concerned to be alert for possible flashfloods and landslides.

The advisory also pointed out that emphasis should be on proactive action, which is evacuation rather than rescue.

As of 5:00 p.m., Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) reported that Northeast Monsoon has affected the Luzon area while Tail-end of the Cold Front is affecting the Visayas and Mindanao islands.

Because of this, PAGASA said Visayas and Mindanao will have mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and isolated thunderstorms, becoming cloudy with widespread rains over Eastern and Central Visayas and the Eastern section of Mindanao which may trigger flashfloods and landslides.

Meanwhile, the Eastern section of Luzon will experience mostly cloudy skies with light rains while the rest of Luzon will be partly cloudy to cloudy with isolated light rains.

Also, moderate to strong winds blowing from the Northeast will prevail over Luzon and Western Visayas and coming from the Northeast and East over the rest of the country. The coastal waters throughout the archipelago will be moderate to rough. (PIA-Caraga)

PGMA leads nation in All Saints' Day observance
Manila (1 November 2007) -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo led the nation Wednesday in the observance of All Saints Day as thousands of Filipinos nationwide trooped to cemeteries to spend the day in remembrance of their departed loved ones.

The President, accompanied by First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo and other members of the First Family, arrived at the Libingan ng mga Bayani in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City shortly before 4 p.m. for the concelebrated Mass officiated by Bishop Pedro Dean, archbishop emeritus of Palo, Leyte.

The remains of the President's parents, former President Diosdado Macapagal and Dona Evangelina Macapagal, are interred at the Libingan nga mga Bayani.

Among those present at the Holy Mass sponsored by the First Family were Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita, Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo, Presidential Management Staff (PMS) Director General Cerge Remonde, Sen. Bong Revilla and other government officials, top military leaders and relatives of the President and the First Gentleman.

During the Holy Mass, the President lighted a candle in silent tribute to the unknown soldiers who offered their lives in the service of the country.

After the Mass, the President, the First Gentleman and other members of the First Family visited the tombs of her parents.

Earlier in the morning, the President prayed at the tomb of the First Gentleman's parents at the Manila North Cemetery and the Loyola Memorial Park in Marikina City. (PIA)

PGMA seeks new strategies vs. poverty, calls for public discourse on agenda for growth
Manila (1 November 2007) -- Determined to lick poverty and ensure that the gains of the growing economy cascade to the marginalized sectors, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has ordered the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) to take the lead in going to the grassroots and "serve as a receptacle for new strategies to defeat poverty."

In a statement, Press Secretary Ignacio R. Bunye said the President directed the NAPC headed by Secretary Domingo Panganiban to keep a tight watch over the implementation of grassroots projects and consolidate plans from government agencies on how best to defeat poverty.

"Let us open the doors to public dialogue on how best to fight poverty and bring our nation closer together," Bunye quoted the President as saying as the nation commemorated All Saints' Day Wednesday.

The President, according to him, would like to hear specific suggestions and creative ideas from the people on how a reinvigorated partnership for growth between the government and the citizenry could be achieved.

She also called for broad and non-partisan public discourse on a national agenda for growth and development to reinvigorate the country's democracy, Bunye said.

Despite the gains made by the Arroyo administration's tough fiscal reforms, poverty remains a formidable hurdle, although NAPC Assistant Secretary Dolores Castillo said the country's financial stability, plus a combination of government social services, including subsidies for food and medicines, have helped reduce the incidence of extreme poverty in the country.

Last month, thousands of Filipinos joined an international campaign to end global poverty by making a symbolic rejection of excuses for the poverty-related death of 50,000 people every day throughout the world, and the growing gap between rich and poor.

The "Stand Up, Speak Out" pledge was part of the United Nations campaign to promote the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) that include eradicating extreme poverty, hunger and achieving universal primary education.

"We would like to be one with the others in commemorating our fight against poverty," Social Welfare Secretary Esperanza Cabral said." It is a gesture that we recognize our effort to fight poverty." (OPS)

Statement of Secretary Ignacio R. Bunye
Malacanang, Manila, 1 November 2007

The President has ordered the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) to maintain a tight watch over the implementation of grassroots projects to fight poverty. She said every department must submit to NAPC a concrete plan on how to cascade the gains of the economy to the marginalized sectors.

"Let us open the doors to public dialogue on how best to fight poverty and bring our nation closer together," the President said. She explained that her administration would like to hear specific suggestions and creative ideas from the people on how a reinvigorated partnership for growth can come about between the government and the citizenry.

"Let us reinvigorate our democracy through broad and open nonpartisan public discourse on a national agenda for growth and development. I am ordering NAPC to take the lead in going to the grassroots and serving as a receptacle for new strategies and ideas to defeat poverty," the President said. (OPS)

P20-M worth of social services benefit 8,963 families in Caraga
Manila (1 November 2007) -- The ACT for Peace Programme has provided over P20 million worth of social interventions in 20 priority barangays in the Caraga region to strengthen the government's peace building efforts and sustain the gains for peace and development in southern Philippines, according to Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Secretary Jesus Dureza.

In his report to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Dureza said the peace interventions benefited 8,963 households in 20 barangays in the four provinces comprising the Caraga region – Agusan del Sur, Agusan del Norte, Surigao del Sur and Surigao del Norte.

Dureza, who is also the director of the ACT for Peace Programme, said the completed and ongoing projects include the establishment of Botika ng Barangays, health and peace centers, post-harvest facilities, potable water and irrigation facilities, and other livelihood programs.

Dureza said these projects are under the ACT for Peace Programme managed by the Philippine government and the United Nations with direct support from the government of New Zealand.

The Act for Peace Programme seeks to strengthen peace-building efforts to sustain peace and development in southern Philippines by working with multiple stakeholders to promote peace initiatives at different levels. It also assists Local Government Units (LGUs) and other partners to enhance their conflict transformation capacities.

The ACT for Peace Programme is consistent with the 2004-2010 Medium-Term Philippine Development Plan and the 10-point Agenda of the National Government.

The Programme commenced in June 2005 and is expected to operate until May 2010. (OPS)

Commentary: On the ouster move
Tacloban City (November 1, 2007) -- If they really care about the best interest of the country and the Filipino people, the few detractors who are calling for the ouster of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo should just wait for 2010 rather than doing their best to destroy the gains of a strong economy through extra-constitutional means.

Time and again, the Filipino people have proven that they are tired of political bickering and they would rather walk towards the economic growth that has been elusive in the past decades and has only been achieved during the Arroyo Administration.

The just-concluded synchronized Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections is a proof that the Filipinos want to keep democracy alive and the political institutions, strong.

It is really lamentable that just when the country is starting to reach some gains in terms of the economy and in investor confidence, there are some sectors who are trying their best to destroy these gains through extra-judicial means.

Why are there a few who are very impatient and couldn't wait for the President's term to be completed? They want to ouster the President and they are doing all kinds of hullabaloos to achieve their selfish goal without taking into consideration the consequences of their actions.

If they are able to ouster the President (which is remote), what? The analysts and level headed Filipinos answers are the same. These detractors will fight one another because all of them wants to be the leader. What will happen therefore, is chaos, and the Filipino people will not allow this to happen.

There are rumors that another stronger impeachment move is in the oping as soon as Congress resumes. This will again be a waste of people's money and waste of time which should be allotted to making relevant legislation for the benefit of the country and its people.

The country is doing better under the Arroyo Administration despite the many upheavals brought about by the same detractors, street parliamentary which failed to gain people's support, plopped mutinee, several impeachment cases which all failed.

Methink, the country could have fared better minus these maneuvers of the detractors. If the country will go back to where it has been decades ago, there are only the detractors to blame.

The people have spoken during the October 29 polls, they want to have a hand in choosing their rightful leaders of their choice. Hopefully, the detractors will be given the wisdom to realize the Filipino people means business. (PIA 8 )

DepEd lauds public high school whiz kids' winning inventions
Pasig City (1 November 2007) -- "These geniuses have truly made us proud," Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Jesli Lapus said as he commends elementary and high school students whose inventions are now on exhibit at the Innovation Area of the Intellectual Property Rights Office.

"They have shown that talent and hard work can only result in success. More that admiration, they deserve recognition for the efforts they have put into their craft," Lapus added.

The Robotics Team of Tibagan Elementary School in Makati City comprises Joshua Cortel, Rogen Amen, Albert Ruelan, Joseph Pascua, Paolo Villaflor, John Jeff Bores, and Julius Cesar Kalahati. Cortel and Amen conceptualized two robots - Robo Rally and Robo Sumo. The former is truck-like vehicle that can hurdle obstacle courses and the latter was designed to resemble a sumo wrestler.

These grade five students, together with their team mates, started the project just last month. These are among the several entries submitted by public high school students during the Robo Fiesta last August, sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST). The contest was open to students from both public and private schools.

Three other students from Fort Bonifacio High School in Taguig City – Aljun Monje, Ryan Christian Quintos, and Kenneth Detablan – created the archer robot Jumong-bot, named after a Koreanovela protagonist.

"This is proof that the performance of our public school students can be at par with those from private schools," Lapus asserted. "To boost students' skills in science and technology, the department even proposed to congress an additional allocation of P500,000 for every science high school," Lapus added. (DepEd)

DTI awards seal of excellence to 23 establishments in Region 8
Tacloban City (November 1, 2007) -- For upholding consumer rights and ethical business practices, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in Region 8 recently awarded the seal of excellence to twenty three DTI Certified Establishments in the Region.This is an improvement from last year's only 11 business establishments.

Mr. Joe Molina of the DTI-Leyte informed PIA that this is in connection with the DTI Certified Establishment Program which was launched by Trade Secretary Peter Favila two years ago.

The DTI-CE Program gives due recognition to establishments that uphold the rights of consumers and practice responsible business, where consumers indeed get value for money.

The Program also encourages the setting up of a sustainable Consumers Welfare Desk or a DTI-recognized consumer service center that will provide information to consumers and serve as a mechanism for speedy resolution of consumer complaints.

No less than DTI 8 Director Cynthia Nierras and DTI Leyte Ed Belas presented the seal of excellence to the owners of the 23 business establishments.

Of the 23 business establishments cited, three (3) were presented the Silver Seal Award for having achieved in the past the Bronze Award, for complying with the requirements and social responsibility. The Silver Award was presented to Gleen Marketing Tacloban, Gleen Marketing Ormoc and Gaisano Tacloban.

Bronze Awards were given to twenty business establishments which has complied with the Fair Trade Laws and has set up a consumers welfare desk in their respective establishments.

The bronze awardees include IP Car Service Center in Tacloban City for the service and repair shops, RL Appliance Corporation Tacloban, RL Appliance Ormoc, RL Appliance Baybay, Nena's Trading Tacloban, Highway Supermartl in Tacloban, Citi hardware, Leyte Home Depot and Imperial Appliance Plaza in Tacloban.

Also included are the Tanauan Moon River Grocery, Gaisano Ormoc, Brodeth Enterprises in Baybay, Belen Supermart in Baybay, EKS Mart in Baybay, MNC Service Center in Baybay, Iza Commercial in Bato and Servitec in Ormoc.

The seal of excellence which can be found at the door of the business establishments has the open wings logo which symbolizes commitment to nurture, guide and protect both the consumers and the establishment from unfair trade practices.

The logo also has stretched feathers which depict readiness to fly in open and competitive market and face its challenges, as well as provide a higher quality service.

The feathers forming the wings also reflect cooperation and harmony. As in many myths, wings as represented by the logo, have to be earned by their wearer.

When entering business establishments, consumers can be assured quality and safety of all products they will buy, once they see the DTI Certified Establishment logo posted at the establishment's door. (PIA 8 )

A day of remembrance and prayer
Tacloban City (November 1, 2007) -- Set aside a few minutes to pray as a family and light a candle for peace and unity to reign in the country.

Each and every citizen must heed this exhortation of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to the Filipino people, as the country observes the annual celebration of All Saints Day and All Souls Day.

President Arroyo can not be more correct as she bemoaned the fact that because of the country's bad system of politics, the nation's progress is always hampered and stalled.

"Political discord stands in the way of our progress as a nation. It is the time for us to heal the wounds from our troubled past and join hands in confronting the myriad challenges of the future," the President said in a statement issued on the eve of the celebration.

Indeed, the observance of All Saints Day is an opportunity for the Filipino people to remember and pay respect to their departed loved ones. It is a time to reminish the good times with their departed beloved and to honor those who have passed away.

The Filipino way of honoring the dead is one of the most sentimental and romantic traditions where relatives and friends come home to pay homage to their beloved who have gone ahead to the Creator.

The rendevous is the cemetery where the most colorful and most beautiful flowers have been arranged, the most decorative and biggest candles are lighted and for many, the favorite food of the dearly beloved departed are brought and are partaken by the entire family, methink with the inclusion of the beloved departed.

So the All Saints Day celebration is a blend of happy and sad, or chaotic and hectic occasion.

Perhaps to make this occasion more relevant, the Filipino people should heed the President's call for the Filipino families to allocate a little time, amidst this celebration, to pray together and light a candle for peace and unity to reign in this nation. (PIA 8 )

Commentary: Reducing the burden of public school teachers
Tacloban City (November 1, 2007) -- President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's issuance of Administrative Order No. 204 will surely warm the hearts and lessen the burden of the public school teachers.

President Arroyo, in an effort to minimize the load of the public school teachers in the performance of their duties, has authorized the increase in their cash allowances for the purchase of chalks, erasers, forms, and other classroom supplies and materials from P300 to P500 each per annum.

This is indeed a big help to the teachers who often times have to spend not only for the chalks, erasers and school forms but also for the visual aids which are posted in their respective classrooms.

President Arroyo, under Administrative Order No. 204 which she signed last Oct. 19, ordered the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to charge the funding support necessary to implement the order against the available savings of the national government.

The public school teachers will be pleased to know that the Administrative Order will take effect immediately, which shows that the President means business and is really sincere in relieving some of the burdens of the public school teachers in order to make them more effective in their task of mentoring the youth of the land.

As the President stated in the AO, "I hereby order an increase in said cash allowance to lessen the teachers' burden during actual teaching and enable them to better stir classroom interaction."

It is the enunciated policy of the State to provide quality basic education in public schools and support the needs of the teachers by providing the environment for them to effectively undertake their functions in the classroom.

The President's move underscores more than ever the important role that teachers play not only in molding the youth of the land to become productive and model citizens of the country but in seeing to it that the country's political exercises are properly implemented and the citizens' right of suffrage are safeguarded, even to the extent of putting their lives in danger. (PIA 8 )

BIR Eastern Visayas surpasses third quarter goal
Tacloban City (November 1, 2007) -- BIR Eastern Visayas under the able stewardship of its Regional Director, Atty. Estrella V. Martinez, surpassed its P172.879 million collection target for September 2007, garnering a total collection of P220, 968, 630.06, thereby registering a surplus of P48,089,630.06 which is equivalent to 27.82 percent.

This feat of the BIR Eastern Visayas contradicted the negative forecast of impending tax collection doom and amidst nationwide projections of revenue shortfall until the end of this year.

Ms. Paulina Buitizon, Revenue Officer I, informed that the Revenue Region has also pooled a remarkable P2,585,524,087.69 tax collections from January to September 2007 which exceeded the P2,328,226,000.00 goal for the same nine-month period by 8.90 percent, which is equivalent to P207,298,087.69.

With humility, Director Martinez and the regional revenue officials give credit and share the accolades to all the Eastern Visayas taxpayers, whose unwavering support and cooperation through correct and timely payment of taxes.

These actions of the taxpayers have enable Regional Revenue-14 to consistently hit the highest marks in collection performance, compared to other revenue regions since 2002 up to the present, in terms of percentage increase and assigned goals.

Director Martinez also commended the Revenue Region-14 staff and frontline personnel who has collectively manifested tremendous commitment and resiliency as shown by their impressive collection efforts which also overshot the 2006 collections by 21.98 percent.

Director Martinez urged the staff to sustain their enthusiasm and commitment so that the Bureau of Internal Revenue will be able to meet its goal and contribute to the attainment of a balanced budget in 2008.

She also called on the taxpayers in Eastern Visayas to continue their unwavering cooperation and support by paying their taxes correctly and on time. (PIA 8 )

RDC 8 tackles security aspects of poverty reduction program
Tacloban City (November 1, 2007) -- The security aspects of the Poverty Reduction Program will be tackled, among others, during the scheduled November 7, 2007 meeting of the Development Administration Committee of the Regional Development Council of Eastern Visayas.

No less than Col. Francis Lanuza of the Philippine Army in the Region, will discuss the security aspects of the anti-poverty program which is very much needed in the Region considering the unique topography and situation in the Region.

To be held at the NEDA Conference Room at the Government Center, Candahug, Palo, Leyte from 8:00 o'clock in the morning to 12:00 o'clock noon, the Secretariat informed that aside from tackling the matters arising from the minutes of the April meeting, the Committee members will be informed on the joint memo circular No. 1, series of 2007 on the Harmonization of Local Planning, Investment Programming, Revenue Administration and Expenditure Management.

This memo circular hopes the common problem of the Local Government Units on the many kinds of plans and budgeting which are required by the various national government agencies.

The Secretariat is also scheduled to discuss for endorsement of the committee, the plan assessment and updating (MACRO and Government Sectors).

Finally, the draft guidelines on the Galing RDC Member Award will be discussed for endorsement of the committee.

The Galing RDC Member Award is being proposed by the Development Administration Committee to give due recognition to the RDC Members who have achieved exemplary accomplishments.

The Development Administration Committee is one of the four major committees of the Regional Development Council in Eastern Visayas. The other three are the Economic Development Committee, the Social Development Committee and the Infrastructure Development Committee. (PIA 8 )

NSC conducts local peace and security assembly in Eastern Visayas
Tacloban City (November 1, 2007) -- A Local Peace and Security Assembly will be conducted in Eastern Visayas Region on November 8-9, 2007 at the Leyte Park Resort Hotel in Tacloban City, Province of Leyte.

Ret. Lt. General Victor A. Mayo, Senior Deputy Director General of the National Security Council informed that no less than Her Excellency, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is expected to be the Guest of Honor during the said Assembly.

The Assembly, Lt. General Mayo said, is a multi-sectoral undertaking that is aimed at strengthening local mechanisms to address peace and security problems with the active participation of various stakeholders in the Region.

The outcome of the peace and security assembly would be adopted in Eastern Visayas to promote stronger cooperation and complementation between the national and local governments to promote progress and development particularly in the countryside.

Furthermore, the expenses for transportation and accommodation of the participants from the Government Sector shall be shouldered by their respective departments or agencies or offices. The National Security Council shall provide for the meals during the Assembly dates, Lt. General Mayo clarified.

The participants are expected to arrive on November 7, in the evening of which, the coordination meeting of the secretariat and facilitators will be conducted.

Eastern Visayas is composed of the provinces of Leyte, Southern Leyte, Biliran, Samar, Eastern Samar and Northern Samar. (PIA

Tacloban City (November 1 2007) -- The centuries-old tradition of All Saints Day continues to live on, as countless Filipinos, many of them returning to their roots, pay respects to their departed love ones amid stringent police and military security measures at bus and airport terminals.

So, although not declared a public holiday, yesterday begun the exodus to the cemeteries especially to those who have to travel long hours just to reach the tombs of their departed love ones.

In fact, for many who went home to their respective provinces to vote during the October 29 synchronized Barangay and Sangguniaang Kabataan elections, their All Saints Day celebration started on the 28th when they left for home.

Even with the prevailing harsh economic times, families will still find time and money to travel if they have not done so during the week end, with loads of candles, flowers, and food to last the holidays.

Surely, there will be a mad rush to supermarkets and shopping malls, with shoppers trying to stretch the buying power of the peso, spending hours of shopping to find the lowest food items and candles at less than half their actual price their wallets could afford.

For the flower they would put on the tombs of their loved ones, families will start to crowd the districts where fresh blooms are sold at less than half the price than those found in popular flower shops and high-end flower arrangement centers.

The Philippine National Police will again have their hands full, deploying more policemen to increase police visibility, checking bus and airport terminals, guarding the cemeteries and other crowded places to ensure public safety and order.

As if those are not enough, policemen at the same time will have to be vigilant to see to it that the residences abandoned by the occupants who are all at the cemeteries will be safe from unscrupulous robbers and Akyat Bahay gangs, and more so to ensure that no terroristic activities are committed.

So, the traffic nightmare will hound the commuters and motorists once again despite the hardworking traffic enforcers, the danger that wallets will be picked from pockets will be there once more, and the discomfort of being bumped here and there, by people coming and going, will begin to make people more alert again.

However, all of these difficulties, inconveniences and dangers are nothing because to millions of Filipinos, old traditions never die, not even fade away, traffic or no traffic, come rain or scorching sun.

After all, it is at this time of the year when Filipinos can share the goodness of their hearts to kindred who have gone to rest in God's embrace. (PIA

DOTC implements anew "Oplan Kalakbay: Kaluluwa"
Tacloban City (November 1 2007) -- The Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC) has directed the DOTC-Regional Management Council to implement anew OPLAN Kaluluwa under DOTC OPLAN Kalakbay 2007, in order to assist the traveling women, men and children.

In the memorandum dated September 28, 2007 signed by Ms. Rowena S. Quiague, Director III, Administrative Service and Head of the DOTC-RMC National Secretariat, the chairperson of the Regional Management Council all over the country to fully activate DOTC Help Desks in strategic locations, particularly in the different transport terminals in the different areas of the nation.

Under the directive, the Regional chairpersons were advised to assign and deploy Field Enforcement Teams and personnel to provide help and information to the riding public, to act on complaints reported on the spot and to recommend appropriate sanctions and penalties on erring conductors and drivers of public utility vehicles.

Any unusual incident must be reported immediately by the Field Enforcement Teams to the Office of the Secretary thru the DOTC Action Center at Telefax 723-8235; 727-1710; and hotline 7890.

The memo also advised the chairpersons that they can request for the release of P4,000.00 cash advance to defray the necessary expenses in the implementation of the OPLAN Kaluluwa program, chargeable against the Gender and Development Funds of the Department.

It would be recalled that the DOTC also implemented the OPLAN Mahal na Araw in April 2007 in order to assist the transporting public who were going home to their respective provinces in order to observe the traditional Lenten Season rites.

It was learned, meanwhile, that the Chairman of the DOTC-Regional Management Council in Region 8 is no longer LTO Director Raul Aguilos. The new chairman is Director Elizalde of the Philippine Ports Authority, PIA source informed. (PIA

Kapalong Sagip Kalinga on
by Edna Parcon

KAPALONG, Davao del Norte (1 November 2007) -- Kapalong Sagip Kalinga, a local government program for women and children in crisis, is now operational with livelihood and other training programs to support the clienteles at the Sr. Citizens building, this municipality.

It serves as processing center for temporary care to the disadvantaged women and girls and abandoned/surrendered children from within the jurisdiction of the Municipality of Kapalong only after they shall be referred to appropriate institutions shall there'll be a need for them for in-housing for a period of time and in-depth services.

Kapalong Sagip Kalinga was conceptualized by former SB Member Gaspar Balinggao on November 11, 2003 through Municipal Ordinance No. 327 and SB Member Ruby Balinggao the Chairman Committee on Women, Children and Family back up the Ordinance for implementation through Municipal Resolution No 104 to address the increasing incidence of women and children abuses.

Municipal Resolution No 104 states, "A resolution urging the Local Chief Executive to implement the Municipal Ordinance No. 327 series of 2003 "An Ordinance Establishing a Crisis Center for Women and children known as Kapalong Sagip Kalinga and adopting the structures and policies for its operation."

Kapalong Sagip Kalinga is composed of the Mayor, Technical Working Group, Social Welfare Officer, Center Manager, Administrative staff and friends of the center - Kapalong Council of Women, NGO's and Civil Society Organizations.

A "5-kilometer walk for a cause" fund raising program to be conducted on the later part of this year is being designed by the Kapalong Council of Women in partnership with Pag-asa Farms General Manager Severino "Toy" Mercado to support the sustainability of Kapalong Sagip Kalinga project.

The operation of Kapalong Sagip Kalinga is guided by an implementing rules and regulations manned by MSWD personnel. (MIO, Kapalong, DNorte/PIA XI)

LTO 8 reactivates help desks for motorists under DOTC's Oplan Kalakbay: Kaluluwa 2007
Tacloban City (November 1 2007) -- Land Transportation Office Region 8 Director Raul Aguilos informed that he has reactivated the LTO Help Desks for Motorists starting October 31, 2007 in compliance to the September 28 memo of the Department of Transportation and Communication.

The memo directed attached agencies to once again implement OPLAN Kalakbay: Kaluluwa 2007 in order to assist the general riding public to ensure their safety and welfare.

Director Aguilos said that he has directed all division and section chiefs, heads of district and extension offices and all LTO personnel concerned to activate LTO Help Desks in various transport terminals in their respective areas of jurisdiction.

Further, personnel have been assigned to extend assistance to the riding public and to act on complaints reported and to recommend appropriate actions.

Director Aguilos said that for Tacloban District Office, Tacloban Extension Office and Tacloban City Licensing Center, the personnel have been assigned to man the Help Desks at the Old Tacloban City Terminal near MacDonalds, Marasbaras Terminal near Andoks and the New Tacloban City Transport Terminal at Abucay, in order to be of full help to the traveling women, men and children.

Likewise, Director Aguilos said that a Roving Team composed of LTO personnel will also be on duty on October 31, from 3:00 o'clock in the afternoon until 7:00 o'clock in the evening.

For November 1, Director Aguilos said that LTO has organized three teams and one roving team. The first team will have three groups with each group manning the helpdesks at Andoks, Macdonalds and New Bus Terminal from 7:00 o'clock in the morning up to 11:00 o'clock in the morning.

The second team man the Oplan Kaluluwa helpdesks at Andoks, Macdonalds and New Bus Terminal from 11:00 o'clock in the morning until 3:00 in the afternoon.

The third team, Director Aguilos said, will man the Oplan Kaluluwa helpdesks at the three sites from 3:00 o'clock in the afternoon till 7:00 o'clock in the evening.

A Roving Team has also been formed to be on duty on November 1, Director Aguilos clarified. He said that the schedule of the personnel who will man the Oplan Kaluluwa helpdesks was made so in order to give the personnel time to be able to practice the Filipino custom of visiting the graves and paying respect to their dearly beloved who have already passed away from this earth.

The Oplan Kaluluwa personnel will record and take action on the complaints of the travelers and also to make a well documented report to the Regional Director and to the DOTC and LTO Central Offices. (PIA

Youth enlivens Sambuokan fest
By Mai Gevera

Davao City (1 November 2007) -- Majority of the prime movers in the recently concluded 7th Sambuokan Festival in the City of Mati are the youth who displayed creativity, talent, and dynamism.

The young Matinians have consistently enlivened the yearly Sambuokan, tagged second to the most renowned Kadayawan Festival of Davao City.

Activities such as Indak-Indak sa Dalan, "Lanog" Drum and Bugle Corpse, and the SK Cheerdance Competition are all given color and life by the youth.

Committee chair for Education city councilor Nino Sotero Uy said that the youth have initiated some of the major activities during the said festivity as they have seen the great potential of the young ones who deserve to be highlighted during the celebration.

In time for the Sanguniang Kabataan election held last October 29, the SK of Mati pulled their resources to open the Cheerdance Competition. The contest was participated by the different schools in the city such as the Davao Oriental State College of Science and Technology (DOSCST), Mati National Comprehensive High School (MNCHS), Mati Doctors College, and guest participant from a Maragusan school.

For the Indak-Indak sa Dalan street dancing competition, about 14 participants vied for the grand prize.

Sambuokan remains as Mati's prime tourism activity especially now that the former town was recently declared a city.

The city now celebrates unity that also happens to be the root of the Visayan word "Sambuokan" which means one and united.

New city mayor Michelle Rabat brushed aside talks that the festival will take another name. The Sambuokan Festival, given birth during the administration of her father and former town mayor Paking Rabat, is said to continue as Mati's festival trademark but later will get a new and better face as Matinians celebrate cityhood. (PIA XI) [top]

Davao Oriental town commends Kapalong dad
by EB Parcon

KAPALONG, Davao del Norte (1 November 2007) -- The Sangguniang Bayan of the Municipality of Governor Generoso pass and approves Municipal Resolution No. 53 series of 2007 expressing appreciation and gratitude to SB Member Helario T. Caminero of the Muncipality of Kapalong, Davao del Norte for his untiring effort by way of an extra-ordinary support for the establishment of Governor Generoso Institute of Arts and Sciences (GGIAS).

Governor Generoso Municipal Resolution cited, "the necessity of establishing tertiary institution came into reality by way of having extra-ordinary support especially for those who dedicate their untiring and unselfish efforts in the project - GGIAS."

The local government of Governor Generoso headed by Mayor Jerry dela Cerna, with the elected officials, DepEd personnel secondary and elementary made a field study, conducted a series of actual visits, and on the spot observation to learn and acquire desired measures for the establishment of tertiary education.

SB Member Caminero whose remarkable contributions in the establishment of Kapalong

College of Arts and Sciences (KCAST) has become the inspiration of the study team to go back to Kapalong and replicate the LGU Best Practice on higher education program.

Caminero sat down with the study team until the wee hours of midnight during their series of visit in Kapalong, discussed and shared his strategies that made the assurance in the opening and operation of GGIAS on June 2007.

Caminero a re-elected SB Member of Kapalong still holds the chairmanship on Committee on Education with his aspiration to continue his mission for a globally competitive educated young Kapalongnians.

Caminero recently elected Provincial PCL President now sits as one of the Provincial Board Member of Davao del Norte. (MIO, Kapalong, DNorte/PIA XI)

Financial assistance for corn growers in Ilocos Sur assured
By Freddie G. Lazaro

VIGAN CITY (November 28) -- Ilocos Sur Governor Deogracias Victor "DV" B. Savellano has assured financial loan assistance with low interest rates for the provision of the farm inputs for corn growing this season, it was learned.

The governor told on Tuesday that a memorandum of agreement (MOA) between the province and the San Miguel Corporation (SMC) was forged recently to establish a ready marketing outlet of corn. The appropriate buying price per kilo of hybrid corn for the farmers to earn a comfortable income is under negotiation.

"A MOA was already signed between the province and SMC, in which the SMC is willing to buy our hybrid corn products. Indeed, we are doing all possible ways, not only on how to develop our corn industry, but even means and remedy on how to increase the price in the market," Savellano said.

The moved the governor made will address the pressing problems aired by the corn farmers during the province-wide corn congress last week at the provincial capitol. These problems include the high prices of farm inputs, lack of capital and unstable buying price of hybrid corn.

The congress, which was initiated by the provincial government, was attended by Gov. Savellano, field technicians and corn production experts from the national and regional agriculture department; financial institutions, corn stakeholders and hundreds corn farmers.

"Our main concern in this corn congress is to look all the alternatives to resolve the problems as well as to improve the production of hybrid corn growing in the province," Savellano said.

"I could not afford that corn farmers will be losing their income in corn growing venture as my priority program is designed for the benefit of our farmers," he added.

He said that the farmers will avail financial loan assistance through the partnership program between the provincial government and the Nueva Segovia Consortium of Cooperatives.

The farmers will apply financial loan assistance with low interest rates at the Nueva Segovia Consortium of Cooperatives.

Records from the Department of Agriculture showed that Ilocos Sur was one of the biggest hybrid corn producing provinces in Northern Luzon.

Provincial Agriculturists Teofilo Quintal reported that more or less 15, 000 farmers will engaged in corn growing this season with a total estimated land area of 14,000 hectares.

The hybrid corn is one of the best 11 cash crops being campaign by Governor Savellano for farmers to plant in the marginal areas that are not suitable for tobacco growing.

Oscar Tobia, Ilocos Sur's corn production coordinator, cited the use of new technologies in corn growing will increase the quality and quantity in crop production.

"The occurrences and use of modern technology totally increase the productivity of corn in terms of quality and quantity" Tobia.

Farmer Nestor Urbien, the Federated Vice President of Corn Growers Association of Ilocos Sur, lauded the effort of Governor Savellano in strengthening the corn industry in the province.

"In behalf of the corn farmers in the province, I wish to express our gratitude to Governor Savellano for his initiatives and concern in our corn industry," Urbien said.

Urbien cited that the congress was the best venue to present their problems in corn production as stated earlier.

"We are not only presenting our problems in corn growing but we are also learning new technologies from the corn production experts who are speakers during the congress.

Urbien, 47, suggested a regulated floor price of P9.00 per kilogram of hybrid corn in order for them to come up with the high production cost in corn growing.

Today, Urbien disclosed that the production cost on corn production to include the cost of fertilizers, crude oil or gasoline, insecticides and hired labors was already reached up to P25,000 per hectare with an average yield of 5.5 tons per hectare. (PIA Ilocos Sur)

Bien Unido bids for coveted Sinulog crown
by Rey Anthony Chiu

Tagbilaran City (29 November 2007) -- SPIRITS are high as students from Carlos P. Garcia High School and Holy Child Academy of Bien Unido would be attempting a tough feat: to be hailed as the 1998 Sinulog Festival street dancing Champion.

"Everybody is excited", admits Leony Boniel, the Bien Unido executive secretary.

Led by Mayor Rey Niño Boniel, the town is in the heat of preparations to launch their biggest event: fielding about 150 dancers who would be dancing, incidentally for the Santo Niño or the Rey Niño.

The team from the town is not only composed of first timers in the competition, but considering that they are the youngest to represent Bohol, the tension runs high as the burden of raising the financial logistics become magnanimous, sources from the town said.

Practically a first timer into organizing a dancing delegation for a competition as huge and as famous as the Sinulog, Mayor Rey Niño Boniel is pinning his hopes on pure preparation more than on beginner's luck.

And for him, getting ready is about three months of preparations.

Out to represent Bohol in the Visayas most prestigious and pompous mardigras and ritual presentations seen across the country on television, Bien Unido had been practicing their choreography since last October, admits Leony Boniel, the private secretary to the mayor.

Sinulog, an annual mardigras for the Santo Niño is a unique street dancing event where the dance steps are the approximation of the currents that pass through the islands. The word sinulog literally means an imitation of the current.

"We would be faring against the country's best festival dancers this year, and being first timers, we have on our side a known choreographer from Cebu who has been into helping Sinulog contingents from more than a decade," she added during a phone interview.

Charlie Enolba would be in-charge of putting up the choreography for the delegation's 90 dancers, she said.

Reports said Bien Unido has been into honing a presentation that would not just be retelling of a local folk story but casting the seaweeds as the main fabric into the competition, perhaps literally.

Bien Unido has been rowing towards getting the recognition as the seaweeds capital in the country. Seaweeds give the prime ingredient for carageenan, a known component for commercial plastic production and in cosmetics.

Considered a darkhorse in the competition, Bohol would be betting upon the town dancers as the official Bohol entry, this was as far as Mayor Boniel said when he appealed for support from town mayors at the recent League of Municipalities meeting.

Actively backing the team to come up with the production and costs are Bohol mayors, local officials and Bien Unido residents, sources said.

Years back, the dancing delegation from Panglao Bohol went home with an award from the festival organizers. It was not immediately known if Panglao make a new bid this year. (PIA)

The BOHOL TRIBUNE INSIDE NEWS

RAM Region 7 holds
free anti-terrorism,
substance abuse gab

The ideological threat of violent extremism has become a global problem with domestic implications. Extremist groups regularly conduct indoctrination campaigns aimed at vulnerable and receptive individuals in the hopes of recruiting them to self-radicalize and commit violent acts in the name of extremist ideologies.

Some examples of this include Filipinos who have joined terrorist organizations (Al Qaeda or ISIS) and conducted mass casualty attacks such as the siege of Marawi City by the Maute Group and the incursion of the Abu Sayyaf in Inabanga, Bohol.

The implications of violent extremist propaganda campaigns are becoming deadlier, more complex and widespread. Considering the alarming risks and destruction posed by such incidents, it has become imperative that communities become more vigilant to avert similar threats before they happen rather than dealing with the consequences afterward.

Along this line, the Rebolusyonaryong Alyansang Makabansa (RAM) Central Visayas, Region 7 in collaboration with the Sons of Liberty International (SOLI), will be conducting a two-day free anti-terrorism and substance abuse education seminar from January 19-20, 2019 at Casa Rey Francis of this city.

Nelson D. Vargas, Chairman of RAM Central Visayas, disclosed that the seminar aims to educate participants against the dangers posed by both terrorism and substance abuse in support of the Philippine government's current campaigns on both fronts. The said seminar is eyed to be the first of a series of seminars as the organizers are likewise planning to hold it in Metro Manila, Luzon, and the Visayas.

Expected speakers include Prof. Octavio Dinampo of Mindanao State University and Liberty Belo Angeles. Also expected to grace the proceedings is Col. Nestor Flordeliza, RAM National Deputy Chairman, who will be representing MMDA Chairman Danilo D. Lim, the RAM National Chairman.

The organizers strongly urge interested individuals to take part in this free and highly informative event. Interested individuals may contact the event secretariat Bros. Hedwig B Antasuda and Rodulfo D. Sandulan at 09360872339 for further inquiries. They can also get in touch with the following for particulars: RAM Secretary General Ceasar P. Pelaez, RAM President Nikki Besas, PGBI Bohol Island Guardians President Alan Cahiles and Vice President Louie E. Digal. (Elijah L. Sales)

Two more cruise ships
expected to visit Bohol

Two other cruise ships are expected to visit Bohol in the coming weeks.

The expected visit of two cruise ships comes after a cruise ship visited Tagbilaran on Monday.

According to Epelito Arao-arao II, executive assistant at the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) in Tagbilaran, two more cruise ships will be docking at the Tagbilaran city seaport.

He said M/S Pacific Venus will be arriving on January 25 and M/S Europa will visit on March 20.

Last Monday, M/S Europa 2 arrived in Bohol as part of the cruise ship's tour of the country and left the province Monday evening.

This is not the first time M/S Europa 2 visited Bohol. Back in 2017, Bohol was one of the stops of the cruise ship.

A larger and more fitting cruise ship port is being built in Barangay Catagbacan in Loon town.

The current Tagbilaran city seaport is not designed to accommodate large ships such as M/S Europa 2.

Once completed, the Catagbacan port will definitely lure more cruise ships to make a stop in Bohol. (Dave Albarado)

Bohol shares
educational
programs, links

Gov. Edgar Chatto was interviewed on Friday by a group from the Philippine Business for Education on Government-Industry-Academe linkages.

The governor shared the Bohol vision, our development pillars, and strategies in the education sector like the Turo-Turismo, Eskwela Agrikultura, and the upcoming Information Technology Hub.

Chatto said the initiatives in education support our vision for the province as a prime eco cultural tourism destination and an agro-industrial province with well educated citizenry.

He added the programs are integrated with our development pillars so that our students are provided the right capacity in a manner that matches the needs of our businesses. The governor said such programs ensure business growth and employment.

Governor said that the programs are anchored on the needs of the people and always in partnership and collaboration with stakeholders. (Edcom)

Yap files bill to
legalize habal-habal

In a bid to avert a huge transport crisis among commuters who live in far-flung areas, House Deputy Speaker and Bohol's third district congressman Arthur Yap filed a bill aiming to regulate the operation of the motorcycle for hire or the habal-habal.

Yap's bill seeks to amend the land transportation laws to allow the operation of the habal-habal or the motorcycle for hire. Motorcycle for hire is a low-cost transportation option in far-flung areas in the country, and at times, the only means of transportation in hard-to-reach areas such as in Bohol and other provinces in the Visayas and Mindanao.

In House Bill 8819, Yap filed on January 8 the bill seeking to allow the local government units the ability to receive, process, and evaluate applications for the operation of habal-habal and to grant a franchise. The franchise is effective within the territorial jurisdiction of the local government unit, the bill said.

While the motorcycle is not originally intended for public transport, the terrain and the situation in most remote areas necessitated the need for the motorcycle for hire especially among commuters in the lower income class.

At the same time, the shortage of a public transport system in most local government units made the tricycles and the habal-habal more feasible and cost-effective to the riding public.

The congressman said while habal-habal provides convenience to commuters, there is a need to consider the safety of the riding public. The lack of safety and accountability is what driving Yap to file the bill in the Lower House.

A similar bill was filed by Bohol Gov. Edgar Chatto when the governor was still a member of the House of Representatives. (Dave Albarado)

Jagna mayor dies

Jagna town mayor Fortunato Abrenilla died of cardiac arrest days after getting admitted to a local hospital. He was 69.

According to Jagna councilor Anthony Aniscal, the mayor succumbed to his ailment and expired early Monday morning.

The councilor said the late mayor was admitted at the Teodoro B. Galagar District Hospital located in Jagna town.

He was brought to the hospital last Friday after complaining of chest pains.

Aniscal added that the town vice mayor Bonifacio Virtudes Jr. was sworn into the post of mayor.

Moreover, the number one councilor Rodrigo Lloren took his oath also Monday morning as the town's new vice mayor, Aniscal bared.

The national flag is now flown at half-mast in Jagna town in mourning of the passing of its mayor.

Abrenilla was running for vice mayor in the mid-term elections. (Dave Albarado)

Sino investors form
strong business group

Chinese investors in Bohol have formed a strong cooperation group described by Gov. Edgar Chatto as another milestone of partnership for socio-economic development in this fast growing province.
The officers of the Bohol Chinese Chamber Association Corporation (BCCAC) on Sunday took their oath before Chatto, who assured them of a Bohol that is "enjoyable to stay, safe to engage in business."
Their chairman is Liang Yanhu, who owns the Freshsunny Property and Development Corp. which develops a housing project in Alburquerque.
Liang thanked for the support of the Bohol leadership, including OIC Provincial Agriculturist Larry Pamugas who, Chatto said, has acted as an investment promoter notably in farm industry.
The BCCAC head also thanked Chinese Consul General Li Jia for encouraging them to explore more fields of mutual cooperation and prosperity in Bohol.
The Cebu-based representative of the Chinese Embassy in the Philippines graced the BCCAC induction that also gathered some Boholano traders of Chinese descent. 
Tagbilaran City Administrator Leonides Borja represented Mayor John Geesnell Yap II, whose great grandfather, according to Borja, came from Beijing, the very capital of China.
Local retail giant Marlito Uy of the Alturas Group of Companies was announced during the event as a BCCAC honorary member.
Chatto said through time, Bohol has established exchanges and ties with China in culture, tourism, education and trade, among others.
He cited the Chinese schools and Filipino-Chinese business establishments in the city and towns in Bohol.
Some of the invited municipal mayors came like Benecio Uy of Baclayon, Elpren Charles Tungol of Alburquerque and Conrada Amparo of Duero, as well as Vice Mayor Maria Fe Piezas of Guindulman.
Reps. Rene Relampagos, Aris Aumentado and Art Yap were also invited, but only the First District solon turned up.
Yap is of Chinese descent but a genuine Boholano by affinity having married a Lobocanon, since stayed in Bohol and served the Boholanos in the Third District for full three terms, straight nine years.
Bohol has an existing sisterhood with Jiangxi, a huge progressive province in mainland China, and potentially with another important big province which is Sichuan.
Both Chatto and Provincial Administrator Alfonso Damalerio II last year visited the two Chinese provinces on official invitation by the Chinese government. 
The operation of the Bohol Panglao International Airport (BPIA) augurs well for the province's investment promotions to other countries like China, Chatto said.
Chatto said the next step is expanding the potentials of Bohol for many Chinese today are investing in tourism.
The BCCAC chairman himself is also the president of the UU World Tourist and Consultancy Corp.
The other BCCAC officers are Director-General Zhou Jun, Secretary-General Hu Yang, and Directors Wang Zhenqin, Liu Lin, Chen Xian, Zhang Pin, Weng Lantian, Pan Junfeng, Ren Jiancheng, Guan, Huawei, Zhang Deli and Huang Zhangjian.
The Chinese investors have also ventured into agriculture, like the vast vegetable farm in Cantaub, Sierra-Bullones by one of the BCCAC directors, Weng.
Programmed among the province's agricultural productivity innovations, the sprawling cool upland farm taps the industrious indigenous people of Bohol, the Eskayas.
Completely related to agriculture, Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) Provincial Manager Emil Romero also attended the BCCAC affair.
Tourism and agriculture are considered two of the three pillars of Bohol's economic development and inclusive growth, the third one being information communications technology.
More capitals mean new jobs and more economic opportunities, Chatto said.
VERY WELCOMED
The governor told the "Chinese friends" they are "very welcomed" to Bohol not only because many Boholanos have Chinese blood.
They are welcomed because Chinese investments and technologies have found ways compatible with Bohol's overarching agenda for sustainable development and inclusive growth, he said.
Also, Bohol and Tagbilaran City have been declared by the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) as the "most business-friendly" province and city in the country.
Pres. Rodrigo Duterte presented the PCCI award for the province to Gov. Edgar Chatto in Manila in 2017. (Ven rebo Arigo)

PD, fire marshal
pay courtesy call

The new police provincial director and the provincial fire marshal paid courtesy calls in separate instances last week.

Gov. Edgar Chatto received last week a Sto. Niño from new Bureau of Fire Protection Bohol Chief Inspector Randy M. Mendarus.

The Sto. Niño who is also patron saint of the Governor's Office will have a special place at the new Provincial Capitol.

Mendarus is joined by Tagbilaran City Fire Chief Senior Inspector Marlyn R. Macatangay as well as other officials of the BFP.

During the courtesy call, the governor and the BFP discussed capacity and needs of the BFP team in Bohol.

Furthermore, new Bohol Police Provincial Director Senior Superintendent Julius Cesar Gornez calls on Gov. Edgar Chatto and Provincial Administrator Alfonso "Ae" Damalerio II at the People's Mansion last week.

Gornez recalled a number of instances where he met with the governor in peace and order functions such as the Regional Peace and Order Council meetings.

Chatto took the time to speak to Gornez about the current peace and security setup in Bohol and how peace and security in Bohol can be strengthened under their leadership.

Gornez expressed his appreciation for sustained peace and security programs of the province, mentioning collaborations as a strength of Bohol especially when compared to neighboring provinces.

The Special Action Committee is set to orient the new PNP Chief about the peace and order programs being implemented in Bohol. (Edcom)

LYEA gets new
musical instruments

Stefan Balbin, a scholar of the  Loboc School of Music who graduated in 2010 at the Holy Name University School of Nursing has donated four musical instruments to the Loboc Youth Education Association  (LYEA) which was distributed to the students last January 13, 2019.
Stefan Balbin, now working as a Neonatal ICU Nurse at the St. George"s University Hospital Foundation NHS Trust at Blackshaw Road, London, England, used to play the French Horn at the Loboc Youth Ambassador Band.
Other graduates from the School of Music have also donated musical instruments in the past as a way of helping the school who have helped them graduate in college and be gainfully employed both in the country and abroad.
The musical instruments were received by Ms. Mary Rose Arbuyes, current president of the Loboc Youth Ambassadors Band in behalf of the School of Music and witnessed by some of the band members and the trainors and Musical Director Rene Balbin
LYEA has established the Loboc School of Music situated at Jimilian, Loboc, Bohol  as a vehicle to form  The Loboc Youth Ambassador Band as a poverty reduction project of the Loboc Youth Education Association Inc., led by Argee Melisimo  and then Mayor Leon Calipusan and supported by the LGU Loboc, led by Mayor Helen Alaba Calipusan ,  Province of Bohol led by Governor Edgar M Chatto  ,  Philippines-Australia Community Assistance Program (PACAP) and the First Consolidated Bank. This project started in May, 2007.
Starting last July 1, 2014, these college scholars are also provided with FREE Dormitory in an exclusive 2 storey LYAB STUDENT CENTER  located at Corner Remolador and Palma Streets, Tagbilaran City.

All interested kids, both boys and girls, from grades 3 to 4th year high school and residents of Loboc, are trained in notes reading and instrumentation for FREE, and are provided with free musical instruments, solicited from patrons and donors. The objective is to support these kids to avail of free college education by becoming members in school bands in the province and elsewhere. Hopefully this will help in poverty reduction considering that education is the greatest EQUALIZER. To date, the project has over 500 students and  355 students  are individually provided with musical instruments.
The members of the Loboc Youth Ambassador Band has availed of  86  college scholarships from leading colleges and universities in the province of Bohol for the school year 2018-2019.    The LYEA is very thankful for the support of the BIT International College, Bohol Island State University, Cristal-E College and  Holy Name University.  These colleges/universities supported the project of LYEA by accepting band members of the project to avail of college/university education through their schools.  With their support of this  project,   130 students  have already obtained college/university degrees and are now gainfully employed.
The band is performing by invitation in  shows and concerts in the towns and cities in the Province of Bohol, other Provinces in the Philippines and abroad.
LYEA is a non-profit organization composed of the following: Argeo J Melisimo, President; Leon A Calipusan, Vice President; Primitivo Sarigumba, Treasurer; Engr. Manuelito Varquez, Secretary;  Trustees are the following:  Atty. Eladio M. Jala, Antonio Acuna, Jr., Rene Baquial. The Executive and Training Director is Rene V. Balbin.

Chatto welcomes
Taiwanese biz people

Gov. Edgar Chatto welcomed top officials of the Taiwan Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines (TCCIPH). He is seen here giving a token key to Bohol to Chamber President Michael Lin.

The delegation also includes Philip Chien, founder and honorary president of the TCCIPH, chairman Benny Chen, Vice Presidents David Huang and Emily Huang, and Secretary General Matthew Wang.

The Chamber is also welcomed by other Provincial officials Provincial Administrator Ae Damalerio, Planning Officer Atty. John Titus Vistal, Investment head Ma. Fe Dominise, employment officer Vilma Yorong, Foreign Relations and Culture and Arts head Romulo Tagaan, Tourism Officer, Josephine Cabarrus, Enterprise Development head Loinda Saluan, and Special Projects head Liza Flores.

The Taiwan Chamber is into businesses such as satellite transmission, telecommunication, media, realty development, tourism, education, restaurant construction, manpower, as well as consultancy management service.

Provincial officials presented development plans as well as investment opportunities in Bohol. (Edcom)

Volunteer program now
institutionalized in Bohol

Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRMMC) chair Gov. Edgar Chatto signed last week Executive Order institutionalizing the Community Response Volunteers Program.

Provincial Administrator Alfonso "Ae" Damalerio II explained the launch of the program.

It is based on law that provides for promotion of health and safety, maintenance of peace and order, and preservation of comfort and convenience of people.

It builds on peace and security as foundations for sustainable economic and human development.

As part of Security Always For Everyone (SAFE) Bohol, the Community Response Volunteers Program establishes a network of volunteers form various sectors for emergency response.

The concept is not new as this has been the setup with many emergency response units both from government and private sector. The program is simply being institutionalized.

The volunteers will undergo training and capacity building in partnership with PDRRMC.

Meantime, Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management (PDRRM) Officer Anthony Damalerio assures his office as well as the Telephone and Radio Systems Integrated Emergency Response (TaRSIER117) are working and doing their best for a disaster resilient Bohol.

Damalerio reports latest developments in disaster preparedness including the national expansion of TaRSIER117 with substations in Ubay, Jagna, and Carmen and three more substations to be opened this year in Balilihan, Dauis, and Loon.

He also expressed gratitude for partnerships which have helped increase the capacity of the PDRRMC and TaRSIER117. He named among these partnerships the following: police, health, fire authorities, MDRRMOs as well as international partnerships such as Stefan Bauer, Home Reach Foundation, TBTK, Office of the Civil Defense, New York Police Department (NYPD), Taiwan - Workshop on National Disaster Prevention, Pacific Angels with US marine Corps and Navy JICA - training in Turkey, Regional Workshop on Disaster Preparedness for Asia Pacific countries, San Francisco Department of Emergency Management, British Government Training on Protective Security, Bohorizon of JICA and Nagoya Institute of Technology, Disaster Awareness and Resilience workshops in Japan, establishment of the Bohol Association of Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Officers.

Major developments in disaster resilience include the completion of additional PHIVOLCS DOST seismic stations in Talibon and Garcia Hernandez and the recent completion of PAG-ASA Doppler Radar in Albur.

Bohol has also gained recognition for outstanding performance in disaster resilience programs with the PAG-ASA Wind Vane Award and the Business Initiative Directions Quality Award.(Edcom)

Wastewater project soon in Panglao

A wastewater management system will soon be implemented in Panglao town to address the problem of wastewater quality that ultimately finds its way to the sea.

The project's plans were bared during a workshop by Provincial Administrator Alfonso "Ae" Damalerio II on Thursday in a local restaurant in the city.

He revealed the plan during the year-end review and sustainability planning for the towns of Panglao and Dauis and the city of Tagbilaran. The three local government units (LGUs) comprise the Panglao, Dauis, Tagbilaran Executive Council (PADTEC).

Damalerio said that the planning for the development of Panglao, Dauis, and Tagbilaran is critical for the tourism industry, as well as, cultural, environmental protection and preservation. The development efforts will also look into connectivity and urban planning, the provincial administrator added.

A statement from the Effective Development Communications Unit of the Capitol said the workshop was facilitated by USAID SURGE with Tagbilaran City USAID/SURGE program coordinator Rosalinda Paredes at the helm. Together with Paredes were SURGE Component 3 lead Celso Enriquez, SURGE for PADTEC facilitator Ronald Sison, and Heritage Culture and Arts and Tourism Development consultant Dr. Randi Alampay.

The workshop looks into the implementation of PADTEC plans, assessment of the PADTEC as an organization, organizational benchmarking to be able to come up with strategic action plans. (Dave Albarado)

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THE CERTAINTY OF CHRIST'S BODILY RESURRECTION

SERIES: SPIRITUAL REALITIES IN THE CHURCH

By Doug Goins
The passage we're studying begins with a ringing affirmation of resurrection life. First Corinthians 15:20: "But now Christ has been raised from the dead." Someone has written a great statement of that reality:


"The present age is Easter time. It begins with the resurrection of the Redeemer, and ends with the resurrection of the redeemed. Between lies the spiritual resurrection of those called into life through Christ. So we live between two Easters, and in the power of the first Easter, we go to meet the last Easter."


That last Easter is the bodily resurrection of all believers in Christ.

In the last two messages (Discovery Papers 4535-6), we've been exploring the resurrection of Jesus Christ as the watershed event of human history in 1 Corinthians 15. When the man Jesus Christ shattered the barrier of death, he transformed the existence of everyone who believes in him, surrenders to him, and follows him in loyalty. In verses 1-11 Paul placed the resurrection at the very center of the gospel. Our faith is grounded in the resurrection. Paul supported its veracity with eyewitness testimony of some of the people who had seen Jesus after his crucifixion and resurrection. In verses 12-19 he surveyed some of the horrible consequences there would be if the resurrection of Jesus Christ had not happened.

Now in verses 20-34 Paul continues to reflect on the absolute certainty of Christ's bodily resurrection on that first Easter morning, and he shows how the future resurrection of believers is the logical outcome of Christ's past resurrection. He also strengthens his case by pointing out that both his own lifestyle and the actions of the Corinthian believers themselves demonstrated a confident certainty in the resurrection.

This section is organized around three amazing affirmations concerning the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Verses 20-22 affirm the inclusive nature of Christ's resurrection. We have been folded into that resurrection reality. Verses 23-28 affirm the forceful purpose of Christ's resurrection. There is a point to it that we can anticipate as ultimate reality. And verses 29-34 affirm the motivating power of Christ's resurrection. Because of the resurrection, we make choices as Christians to live our lives differently.
TWO WAYS OUR RESURRECTION IS TIED TO CHRIST'S
The first affirmation speaks of how closely our own resurrection is tied to Christ's. Look at verses 20-22:


But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep. For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all shall be made alive.


Paul uses two Old-Testament images to show that our inclusion in this tremendous hope of the resurrection is guaranteed. The first image is that of the first fruits in verse 20, and the second that of the analogy of Adam and Christ in verses 21-22. 

The image of first fruits comes out of Leviticus 23. The law required that every Israelite farmer, before he began to harvest his grain crop every year, bring a representative sample to the temple and give it to the priest to be offered up to the Lord in anticipation of the full harvest offering. Paul is saying that Christ's resurrection was the representative offering of our own resurrection from the dead, the first part of this great resurrection harvest offering that we will all be included in. Jesus offered himself up to the heavenly Father in his death and resurrection. He was both the offering and the offerer. The first-fruits not only preceded the harvest, but they were the first installment of the full harvest offering, the guarantee or the down payment of the rest of the harvest offering that was going to come. So the fact that Christ is the first fruits indicates that we will be resurrected, because Christ's resurrection must not exist in isolation from ours. We can count on that. 

Paul goes on to argue the absolute certainty that this will happen by comparing the two men Adam and Christ. Just as the one man Adam brought death to the entire human race, including each of us, because every one of us is a son (or daughter) of Adam, in the same way, the one man Jesus Christ brought resurrection from the dead for those of us who believe in him. Both Adam and Christ were instruments of change. Adam disobeyed God, and he brought disaster, death, and destruction into the world. But Christ, in contrast, perfectly obeyed the Father, and he brought us deliverance, righteousness, and life. So we as mortal human beings are in Adam, and we're going to die; that's reality. But if we belong to Jesus Christ, we have the absolute conviction of resurrection life. Every one of us knows, if we're honest, that our physical bodies are deteriorating. Nobody is going to get out alive, that's absolutely certain. As you get older, you feel it more physically. But the corresponding reality is that we get more and more confident of the hope that we have of the resurrection. This is not the end of all things.

Kim Fenech, our Volunteer Coordinator in Discovery Publishing, was talking to me last week. She mentioned two of the volunteers, our dear brothers Woody Norman and Ron Thompson. For both of them, the outer man is fading because of serious physical problems that face them with their own mortality. Woody has terrible heart problems, and it's hard for him to get to church on occasion. Ron Thompson is losing lung capacity. Yet, Kim was saying, both of these men, the closer they come to the reality of their mortality, the more vibrant and alive and beautiful they are becoming spiritually. The inner man is being renewed; they are anticipating this absolute certainty of being forever with the Lord. That confidence is what gives them life and energizes them, even though it's more and more difficult to live physically.
RESURRECTION EVENTS LEADING TO GOD'S VICTORY
Let's look at the second affirmation concerning Jesus' resurrection in verses 23-28. Here Paul focuses on the eternal purpose of the resurrection. Christ's resurrection has, in a sense, set in motion an inexorable chain of events that absolutely determines our present circumstances and our future, and it's a future full of hope. His victory over death promises the ultimate victory of God in all things. When God raised Christ from the dead, he took sides for the truth and against lies, for love and against hate, for life and against death. Verses 23-24 summarize what Paul calls the order of events leading to the end. Let's read verse 22 again as well:


For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all shall be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christ's at His coming, then comes the end, when He delivers up the kingdom to the God and Father, when He has abolished all rule and all authority and power.


The expression in verse 23, "each in his own order," stresses the different times involved. Christ was made alive three days after his death. Those of us who die belonging to him will be made alive in our order, which will be when he comes back for us. First Thessalonians 4:16-17 says, "For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and thus we shall always be with the Lord." (And we won't have to worry about air sickness at all when that resurrection takes place!) 

After that resurrection of Christians, Christ will defeat the powers of satanic evil in the world, and he will hand over the secured kingdom to his Father. That is the end that Paul mentions in verse 24, the ultimate purpose that began with the resurrection of Jesus Christ. That delivering up of the kingdom is the key event in the end times. Sin will no longer reign in the world. God will rule supremely. There will be no enemy, no challenge to his authority in the world. There are many events detailed in Scripture that are part of this process of final conquest, but chronologies are not important to Paul here. What he really wants us to catch is the certainty of Christ's final conquest. That is central.
THE CENTRALITY OF CHRIST'S FINAL CONQUEST
Paul goes on to amplify that centrality in verses 25-28, where the Son delivers the kingdom back to his Father. Look at verses 25-26. It's not focused just on the future but on the present; Christ is reigning right now, as hard as that may be for us to accept at times.


For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet. The last enemy that will be abolished is death.


Notice that the reign of Christ doesn't begin after his enemies are subdued. He is reigning now, and he will continue to reign until all demonic opposition is finally defeated. That's absolutely central for us to grasp right here and now, because it will counter personal discouragement, a sense of defeat, and spiritual oppression. Jesus is in control now on the micro level in our personal lives, and on the macro level in all the forces swirling around us in the world at large. The death and resurrection of Jesus turned the tide of the battle. The final outcome is certain. Christ has been declared victorious over sin and death and hell, and that means when we look at the world around us and we see Christ's enemies, the evil rule and authority and power ravaging our world, we don't have to be afraid. We do need to be prayerfully active in working for the kingdom, of course. 

Now, I'm certain there are many things we're afraid of. There's the mess that our country is in right now. I have read pundits who have said that in the moral vacuum right now, we will lose credibility as a world leader, and we will be marginalized in global affairs. There is concern about the economic forces that might lead us into recession. There is our president and the concern about his life. There is concern about unemployment amid much talk about what our valley faces in the near future. Perhaps the possibility of bankruptcy or even homelessness concerns you personally. There are the tribal allegiances and ethnic battles on this globe and the violence that flows from them. There is the religious fanaticism around the world. There are floods of refugees on so many continents on our globe. There is violence in Rwanda, Kosovo, Indonesia. Perhaps you are fearful of jihad in the Middle East and how that might even affect us in terms of terrorism in our own country or our own community. Some are very fearful about the effect of the Y2K crisis on us personally and culturally and socially.

But the point of this passage is that we don't have to be afraid because "...He [Jesus] must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet." Although the battle continues, its outcome is absolutely certain: Christ is victor. Earlier in this chapter (Discovery Paper 4535) we talked about the fear of death that we all live with. At present, nobody can resist the touch of death. But death as well will ultimately be robbed of all its power. The promise of the resurrection is that in the end, after Christ has finally and completely triumphed, death will not be able to touch us.
THE CLIMAX: CHRIST HANDS THE KINGDOM OVER TO THE FATHER
Then Paul broadens the vision in verses 27-28. This is a beautiful picture of the Son, who has been given tremendous authority to reign and rule, handing all of the created order and all of redeemed humanity back to his heavenly Father.


For He has put all things in subjection under his feet. But when He says, "All things are put in subjection," it is evident that He is excepted who put all things in subjection to Him. And when all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subjected to the One who subjected all things to Him, that God may be all in all.


What Paul is showing us here is how God is ultimately responsible for this whole chain of events that began with Christ's resurrection and that culminates in the destruction of death. God the Father has given Christ the Son unlimited sovereignty over all creation, and there is therefore no infringement on the Father's own authority. 

The climax of this process of putting all things in subjection comes with the Son's being subject to the Father. Paul is not saying that the Son is inferior to the Father in his essential nature. He is speaking of the work that the Son accomplished and will accomplish. Christ has died for men. He has been raised. He will return again. He will continue to subdue all the enemies of God. The climax of his whole work will come when he offers up the kingdom to God, who is the source of everything and that includes us. We will be tenderly, gently delivered to the Father by the Son.
When we step back and look at verses 23-28, they call us to several things. They call us to the same submissive spirit that Jesus had. He was willing to serve the Father, and we are called to subjection to our heavenly Father and to the Lord Jesus. By nature none of us are submissive people. We don't like surrendering to anybody, yet Jesus is a powerful example of submission.

This passage also helps us lift our vision above our own immediate personal circumstances, the things that frighten us in our personal world or in the larger world around us. We are part of something cosmic. History is going somewhere. Now, there are things I struggle with. For example, we've got three children to put through college over the next eight or nine years. I can get very fearful about whether I can follow through on that responsibility, whether God is big enough. But whether I put my kids through college or not is in a sense irrelevant. What is relevant is that God is absolutely in control of circumstances in my life and in all of our lives collectively, and we are in a process that he is taking us through. And we can be absolutely convinced that the outcome, when all things finally fit together the way they're supposed to, will be good.
MOTIVATED TO SHARE THE GOOD NEWS
Those first two affirmations were doctrinal, but the third is very personal. Paul lays out how he views life. He says that if we're convinced of the resurrection, it ought to drastically change how we live. Verse 29 focuses on the issue of evangelism. If we're convinced of the resurrection, it ought to be an incentive for us to share the good news with other people out of concern for their salvation.


Otherwise, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why then are they baptized for them?


Now, what does this verse mean? Let me say up front that I don't know-nobody really does. I read that there are forty different interpretive approaches to this verse (without even including that of the Mormons, who do practice baptism for the dead). The problem is that there is nothing in the Bible except this one verse about being baptized for the dead. There is also nothing mentioned in first-century extra-Biblical history about this practice. Apparently it refers to some kind of proxy baptism or vicarious baptism by a living person on behalf of a dead person to secure the supposed benefits of baptism for them.

But look carefully at the personal pronouns in verse 29. Paul doesn't include himself in this practice. He also doesn't condone it. He doesn't say, "we who are baptized for the dead," or "you who are baptized for the dead." It was a practice that some people were engaging in, and he knew the church there would know about it. It was a misguided practice, one that was misinformed about the nature of salvation. Those who followed it didn't understand that we are saved by faith alone and nothing else. But these people were concerned enough about the salvation of their dead family members to do something about it.

Paul is not evaluating this practice of being baptized for the dead; he only mentions it in passing. His point is that the hope of the resurrection and concern for the salvation of loved ones moved people to drastic action. His burden here is for our believing in the resurrection to have a profound effect on us, to change our lives, to motivate us to do things we wouldn't otherwise do out of concern for the salvation of other people.

I read a wonderful story in the Mount Hermon Log (1) of a mother who came to Christ because of a letter from her teenage daughter. She found the letter on her pillow as she was packing for her first Mount Hermon weekend women's conference. It was a beautiful letter about her daughter's love for her and how much she needed to know the love of Christ to forgive her sins. The mother shared at the conference how God broke her heart through that witness of her daughter, and how she came to faith that weekend at Mount Hermon. That's the kind of extraordinary effort that ought to be normal for us. That's Paul's challenge: What are we willing to do for the sake of the salvation of people we love and care about?
HOPE IN DANGER
Paul goes on in verses 30-32 to argue that it's absurd for him to undergo the dangers that he does for the sake of the gospel if there's no hope of the resurrection.


Why are we also in danger every hour? I protest, brethren, by the boasting in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. If from human motives I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.


Eugene Peterson's paraphrase The Message makes these verses much more vivid:


"And why do you think I keep risking my neck in this dangerous work? I look death in the face practically every day I live. Do you think I'd do this if I wasn't convinced of your resurrection and mine as guaranteed by the resurrected Messiah Jesus? Do you think I was just trying to act heroic when I fought the wild beasts at Ephesus, hoping it wouldn't be the end of me? Not on your life! It's resurrection, resurrection, always resurrection, that undergirds what I do and say, the way I live. If there's no resurrection, 'We eat, we drink, the next day we die,' and that's all there is to it." (2)


Paul has written openly in his letters about persecution for preaching the gospel. We don't really know what events he is referring to here. Perhaps he did fight wild beasts at some point. There is no other mention of it, so we don't know if he is speaking metaphorically or if it really happened. But the point that Paul is making is that our belief in a God who raises the dead is tremendously motivating when we are suffering or deprived or in danger, whether we're being affected physically or emotionally or spiritually. Whatever Paul went through, even fighting beasts in the arena, the hope of the resurrection strengthened him.

About a year ago Craig Duncan and I went to Pakistan with Ron Ritchie to do a pastors' conference in Lahore. During the day we were in the safe confines of the church meeting with other pastors. But every evening there was an outdoor evangelistic crusade in an amphitheater. Five to eight thousand people came each night. The host knew that there would be Muslims there, some of whom were investigating the gospel, but some of whom were spying out what the Christians were doing. They told us up front that there was an element of danger in the whole thing. We sat on the platform each night. The one who was really in danger was Ron Ritchie, who stood in the center spotlight and preached the gospel each night of that crusade. On about the third day, the host got a telephone call, and he told us that they had been threatened with violent disruption of the crusade that night. He said, "Brothers, it's your call. Do you want to go through with this or not?"

We prayed with the brothers who were hosting us. We ended up saying in essence, "What's the worst thing that could happen? We could get killed. But God is in charge of that. And we believe in the resurrection." So Ron stood up that night and preached the gospel. People were saved. Nobody got killed, at least none of us or anybody else that I knew of. But if we hadn't had that hope, we would not have had the courage or the confidence to walk into that arena so that Ron could preach the gospel.
MOTIVATION FOR A HOLY LIFESTYLE
In the last two verses Paul makes a strong appeal in a series of commands. In essence he says, "If you believe in the resurrection, then you will live a holy life. You will be sold out absolutely to Jesus Christ in all your values and priorities."


Do not be deceived: "Bad company corrupts good morals." Become sober-minded as you ought, and stop sinning; for some have no knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.


Paul is quoting a line from a comedy in Greek literature. But who is the bad company he is concerned about who might corrupt the morals of these Corinthian Christians? From whom should they separate themselves? The answer is in verse 34: "...Some have no knowledge of God." Back in 15:12 Paul wrote, "...How do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?" The "some" who were corrupting them were those who questioned the resurrection, and their corrupting influence wasn't just about doctrine. What you believe about the resurrection, Paul says, controls how you live your life, how you spend your money and use your time, how you invest yourself. People who think wrongly invariably behave wrongly. So just as hoping in the resurrection is an incentive for obedience and holiness, so denying the resurrection is an incentive for disobedience and immorality. As Paul says in verse 32, "We might as well eat and drink, for tomorrow we die. If death is the end, then what difference does it make how we live our lives?" We could paraphrase this appeal in verse 34 this way: "Those of you who do believe in the resurrection know better, and you should be leading those who do not believe in the resurrection into a true knowledge of God, rather than allowing their heresy and immorality to mislead and corrupt you."

I wrestled with this last week in terms of how it challenges us. It's a tragedy when we Christians, the people of the resurrection, end up being influenced by the nonbelievers around us who have embraced a material philosophy that denies resurrection life. Now, few of our materialist friends are going to advocate a life of sheer gluttony or drunkenness or wantonness. But they tempt us with "the good life"-cultivating the fine arts of dining and music and theater, even treasured friendships. Ultimately all of that is self-centered, since it isn't concerned with any continuing existence beyond the grave. Self-interest can even express itself in humanitarianism, although in the final analysis it produces nothing permanently satisfying if this life is all that exists.

As Christians, we must have a radically different mindset. We must recognize that a far better life awaits us than anything we can experience here. So we can risk our lives, our well-being, our resources for the sake of the gospel. We can do it in ways that our material friends wouldn't even consider. In our ethical framework, physical death cannot be the greatest tragedy or the most powerful determinant of correct human behavior. Instead, we must always be asking the question, "What is likely to have the greatest spiritual advantage for the most number of people?" We want to think like the apostle Paul. 

I read a quote this week by Gordon Snyder:


"The resurrection addresses those who insist on protection and security of the individual, of institutions, and of the country. Such persons set up mechanisms of defense along economic lines, racial lines, and national lines. In sharp contrast, the life of the Spirit with its hope in the resurrection does not, indeed cannot, dwell on preservation of the flesh, of personhood or institutions or nations. Rather, the corporate life of the Christian becomes one of risk. A Christian can risk his or her life because a Christian knows this life is not the end." (3)


If we believe that Christ has now been raised from the dead, we will stand out in the world around us. Are you convinced that because of Christ's resurrection, your future is totally secure and you have been included in the hope of the resurrection? Can you live fearlessly in the midst of all the swirling currents and forces at work in the world around you? Are your eyes set on the goal, which is for God to ultimately reign? Finally, and practically, is the way you make choices about your budget, discretionary time, resources, and energy driven by passion for the resurrection and the difference it makes?
Notes:
1. Mount Hermon Log, Volume 54, Number 3, August, 1998. P. 2.
2. Eugene H. Peterson, The Message, 1993, 1994 by Eugene H. Peterson. NavPress, Colorado Springs, CO. P. 364.
3. Gordon F. Snyder, First Corinthians: A Faith Community Commentary, 1992 by Mercer, Macon, GA. P. 211.
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1 Corinthians 15:20-34
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Doug Goins
September 13, 1998

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Dress well because skills, competence and your attitude are not the first things people see.  Author Zig Ziglar says: "You never get a second chance to create a first impression" Somehow the way you dress speaks and reflects your personality and we do not dress well in order to fulfil  ego or to impress people but  dress well so we can show respect to others. #PassionPurposeProductivity

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From an FB comment:
Michelene Marvin It didin't go though. Surgery does not get rid of cancer. Cutting the cancer out does not cure cancer. You have to treat the body as a whole and not just one section of it. If you get mold on a piece of bread, that bread is off. Mold is a sign that the bread is off, the whole loaf of bread is off. Cutting the mold off does not hide the fact that the whole loaf is off and not edible anymore, but some people will just cut out the moldy bits and eat the rest of the bread thinking it is fine. Cancer is a sign that something is off in the whole body, but it has manifested in one area. Something triggered his cancer whether it is his diet, lifestyle, emotional issues, environmental factors etc. Surgery will not get rid of it if the cause of the issue isn't addressed. If you anyone is going to self heal cancer, they have to think of absolutely everything. Every little thing. fir example, if someone goeas holistic and natural, but still eats dairy. It isn't going to help. Also any negative emotion needs to be addressed. A woman I know in the US has a friend who was diagnosed with breast cancer. she decided to treat it herself and go on an alkaline diet. She also made sure she had no stress or felt any negative emotions.That was also very important too as negative emotions make your body acidic.

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PRESS RELEASE
January 10, 2019

Insurance para sa pasahero mandatory na sa mga operators ng tricycle ngayong 2019

KIDAPAWAN CITY –MANDATORY NA SIMULA NGAYONG 2019 para sa lahat ng tricycle operators na kumuha ng insurance para sa kanilang mga pasahero.

Direktiba na rin ng City Tricycle Franchising Regulatory Board o CTRFB ang pagbabago.

Layun nito na ma-protektahan ang mga pasahero kung sakaling maaksidente ang kanilang sinasakyan na tricycle habang bumibyahe.

Sa pamamagitan nito ay may ayudang aasahan ang pasahero dahil mismong operator ang mananagot sa kanyang pagpapagamot bunga ng pagkaka-aksidente.

Ang insurance ay isa lamang sa rekisitos para makapag-renew ng permit to operate ang mismong operator o driver.

Sa January 15, 2019 na lamang ang huling deadline ng seminar sa tinatayang mahigit sa pitong daang operators at drivers na hindi pa sumasailalim sa seminar ng renewal ng kani-kanilang permit to operate.

Una ng isinagawa ang seminar noon pang December 4-7, 2018.

Gaganapin ang huling seminar ganap na ala-una ng hapon sa City gymnasium sa January 15, 2019.

Saka naman isasagawa ang inspection ng mga units ng tricycle upang malaman kung ligtas bang bumiyahe ang mga ito at sumusunod na itinatakda ng tricycle ordinance ng lungsod.

Tatlong libo at limang daan ang kabuo-ang bilang ng mga lehitimong operators ng tricycle na bumibyahe sa Kidapawan City. .##(CIO/LKOasay)

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Nanguyab-hidunggab sa inahan sa gipanguyaban

General Santos City — Samdan sa bukton ang usa ka Exiquel Salandron, 45 anyos, residenti sa Purok Habitat, Barangay San Isidro Gensan human kining gidunggab sa inahan sa dalagang iyang gipanguyaban alas 11:00 ang takna sa gabie sa may Purok Johny-Ang Paradise, Baranagy City Heights, Gensan.

Sa record sa Dr. Jorge Royeca Hospital nasayran nga namisita ang biktima sa balay sa iyang gipanguyaban, gisaway sa inahan ang nasangpit nga muuli na sa ilang balay tungod gabie na ug matulog na ang iyang anak.

Nagmagahi ang biktima nga muuli mao nga nakabati ug kapungot ang inahan. Kalit kining nikuha ug kutsilyo dayon gidunggab ang biktima igo sa iyang bukton nga bahin.

Daling gidala ang biktima sa ospital human sa insidenti apan gilayon man kini nga nakagawas sa hospital tungod dili man grabe ang naangkon niining samad. - RMN Gensan

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TRIVIA:
The Final Decree of Canonical Erection of Anda as a Parish.

Owing to his proper authority over his ecclesiastical jurisdiction, Bishop Benito de Madridejos, OFM finally decreed on March 19, 1885 the formal canonical erection of Anda as a new independent parish. This Episcopal decree of canonical erection was transmitted to the Governor General Vice Royal Patron of the Philippine Islands, the general Superintendent of the estate as well as the Governor of the province of Bohol on March 23, 1885. 61 The said decree declared:

On this date I have decreed the following:
         Having been approved by the Royal Order of July 12 [1884] and the concurrent superior decree of His Most Excellency the  Governor General Vice Royal Patron of these islands regarding the actual creation of a parish in the town of Anda separating it from its mother-parish of Guindulman in the District of Bohol after investigation of the opportune petition requested by the interested parties and due to the necessity and convenience for which the said town is constituted into an independent parish, using the faculties vested upon us by the Sacred Canons and most especially by the Holy council of Trent in Chapter 4, Season 21 regarding reform which conforms with the Law No. 4, Title 6, Book 1 of the Compiled Laws of the Indies, we agree to erect and we canonically erect the town of Anda as an independent parish with the spiritual jurisdiction separating it fr om its mother-parish of Guindulman and assigning to this new parish the same boundaries that are followed civilly".
           I have the honor to transmit his to Your Excellency for your superior knowledge and consequent effects.
          God be with Your Excellency from Cebu on this 19th day of March, 1885.                                                                                          Bishop Benito

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Dr. Gupta says, No one must die of cancer except out of carelessness;  (1). First step is to stop all sugar intake, without sugar in your body, cancer cell would die a natural death. (2). Second step is to blend a whole lemon fruit with a cup of hot water and drink it for about 1-3 months first thing before food and cancer would disappear, research by Maryland College of Medicine says, it's 1000 times better than chemotherapy. (3). Third step is to drink 3 spoonfuls of organic coconut oil, morning and night and cancer would disappear, you can choose any of the two therapies after avoiding sugar. Ignorance  is no excuse; I have been sharing this information for over 5 years. Let everyone around you know.God bless.

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Drinking hot lemon water can prevent cancer. Don't add sugar. Hot lemon water is more beneficial than cold lemon water.

Both yellow n purple sweet potato have good cancer prevention properties.

01. Often taking late night dinner can increase the chance of stomach cancer

02. Never take more than 4 eggs per week

03. Eating chicken backside can cause stomach cancer

04. Never eat fruits after meal. Fruits should be eaten before meals

05. Don't take tea during menstruation period.

06. Take less soy milk, no adding sugar or egg to soy milk

07. Don't eat tomato with empty stomach

08. Drink a glass of plain water every morning before food to prevent gall bladder stones

09. No food 3 hrs before bed time

10. Drink less liquor or avoid, no nutritional properties but can cause diabetes and hypertension

11. Do not eat toast bread when it is hot from oven or toaster

12. Do not charge your handphone or any device next to you when you are sleeping

13. Drink 10 glasses of water a day to prevent bladder cancer

14. Drink more water in the day time, less at night

15. Don't drink more than 2 cups of coffee a day, may cause insomnia and gastric

16. Eat less oily food. It takes 5-7 hrs to digest them, makes you feel tired

17. After 5pm, eat less

18. Six types of food that makes you happy: banana, grapefruit,  spinach, pumpkin, peach.

19. Sleeping less than 8 hrs a day may deteriorate our brain function. Taking Afternoon rest for half an hour may keep our youthful look.

20. Cooked tomato has better healing properties than the raw tomato.

Hot lemon water can sustain your health and make you live longer!

Hot lemon water kills cancer cells

Add hot water to 2-3 slices of lemon. Make it a daily drink

The bitterness in hot lemon water is the best substance to kill cancer cells.

Cold lemon water only has vitamin C, no cancer prevention.

Hot lemon water can control cancer tumor growth.

Clinical tests have proven hot lemon water works.

This type of Lemon extract treatment will only destroy the malignant cells, it does not affect healthy cells.

Next... citric acid and lemon polyphenol in side lemon juice, can help reduce high blood pressure, effective prevention of deep vein thrombosis, improve blood circulation, and reduce blood clots.

No matter how busy you are, please find the time to read this, then tell others to spread the love!

After reading, share with others to spread the love! To take good care of their own health! #ctto

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VISA FREE | 63 ka mga nasud, ihap sa mga kasuruyan sa mga pinoy nga wala'y visa

Good News! Mokabat na sa 63 ka mga Philippine Passport holders ang makabyahe nga visa -free!

Kini ang mibutang sa nasud Pilipinas sa ika- 72 nga ranggo out of 199 passports sumala pa sa Henley and Partners latest Visa Ristrictions Index alang sa tuig 2018.

Ang maong mga nasud mao ang :

Asia

Brunei
Cambodia
Hong Kong
Indonesia
Kyrgyzstan*
Laos
Macao
Malaysia
Maldives*
Mongolia
Myanmar
Nepal*
Singapore
Sri Lanka**
Thailand
Timor-Leste*
Vietnam

Africa

Cape Verde*
Comores Island*
Cote d'Ivoir
Djibouti*
Gambia
Guinea-Bissau*
Kenya*
Madagascar*
Malawi*
Mauritania*
Mauritius*
Morocco
Mozambique*
Rwanda
Seychelles*
Somalia*
St Helena*
Tanzania*
Togo*
Uganda*
Oceania

Cook Islands*
Fiji
Marshall Islands*
Micronesia
Niue
Palau Islands*
Papua New Guinea*
Samoa*
Tuvalu*
Vanuatu
Carribean

Dominica

Haiti
St Lucia*
St Vincent and the Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobago*

Americas

Bolivia
Brazil
Colombia
Costa Rica
Ecuador
Nicaragua*
Peru
Suriname

Middle East

Armenia*
Iran*
Israel

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MALIGNING HISTORICAL INTEREST IS A GRAVEST OFFENSE
By: Alejandro M. Gapasin

Historical revisionism is meant to retell or rewrite historical accounts through fraudulent, inaccurate, distorted or twisted information that are presented as if they are what really happened or transpired.

In the 1990's until early 2000's, if I am not mistaken as to these years, Korean and Filipino comfort women (Those who became sex slaves of Japanese soldiers and officers during World War 2) staged a series of protests to what was the Japanese were doing as to their history textbooks where stories of Japanese war crimes and atrocities, including those involving comfort women, were intentionally deleted or excluded or made sublimed or lighter. The comfort women argued that rewriting history to lessen or totally erase these great historical injustices committed by Japanese during World War 2 against them and other Asian women who became sex slaves as well demeaned their experiences, adding to their psychological, mental or emotional tortures and hardships, and impugning their dignity and struggle to find justice from those gruesome experiences they had in life.

At present, many historical revisionists are still at work for hefty amounts and/or other vested interests to make it appear that historical evils become historical greats.

Take the case of the Marcoses.

Highly established local and international writers of indisputable character and integrity have all written about the evils, the misdeeds, the wrongdoings of deposed late Pres. Ferdinand Edralin - Marcos, his cronies or equally corruptive allies, his excessively extravagant wife, Imelda - who also acted as if she was a queen - and their children and "rela-thieves".

Pure history has already judged them, particularly the late strongman as the second most corrupt president in the world in terms of loot or questionable wealth or the so-called ill-gotten wealth which was estimated in 1980's to be around 15 billion US dollars, or may even be more, worth of treasury bonds, real estates, gold bars, cash, historical, world-renowned paintings and other personal assets, like jewelry.

Sadly, real stories or stories founded on pure evidence about them have been and are still being revised.

For example, a lot of bogus sites in social media tell that Ferdinand Marcos was the greatest Philippine president of all time; that he made the country richer than South Korea in the 1970's, and that he was already rich even before he became president by owning golds which he got as lawyer of a certain Tallano clan. This clan is supposed to be owning the entire Philippines and whose golds were supposedly amassed from the Sri-Vijaya or Majapahit Empire that ruled the Philippines and other Southeast Asian nations before the Spaniards came!

Wow!

Such a concocted series of stories just to justify Marcos' wealth!

Maligning pure and accurate history brings many repercussions as gullible people tend to believe these awesome fairytales. One is that, since they believe in lies, truths and historical accuracy are demeaned. The most vulnerable among these people are the Millennials or those born in 1980's and up.

Historical revisionism must be taken seriously since it corrupts the mind, distorts the truths and makes evils as heroes, and turns right as wrong and wrong right.

It must be made a heinous crime, considering the great damage it may incur against historical correctness and integrity which have something to do with our present as well as our future as a nation and as a people.

- AMG

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ADVENTIST HOSPITAL-SANTIAGO CITY, INC. (FORMERLY CAGAYAN VALLEY SANITARIUM AND HOSPITAL)   
Address: PUROK 5 MABINI SANTIAGO CITY SANTIAGO ISABELA PROVINCE REGION II (CAGAYAN)   
Phone: (078) 305-0161 / 305-2614 / 305-0130

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ADVENTIST HOSPITAL – PALAWAN INC (FORMERLY PALAWAN ADVENTIST HOSPITAL)   
Address: SAN PEDRO PUERTO PRINCESA CITY PUERTO PRINCESA CITY PALAWAN REGION IV-B (MIMAROPA)   (048) phone: 433-5567 / 433-2558 / 433-5566

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ADVENTIST HOSPITAL – CEBU (FORMERLY H.W. MILLER MEM`L SANITARIUM & HOSP)   
Address: 400 TRES DE ABRIL ST SAN NICOLAS CEBU CITY CEBU REGION VII
Phone no.   (032) 261-1974 / 261-2100 / 418-6478

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ACEBEDO GENERAL HOSPITAL   

Address: 849 GENERAL LUIS ST BAGBAGUIN CALOOCAN CITY CENTRAL POST OFFICE CALOOCAN CITY METRO MANILA   
Telephone: 983-5363 / 404-4181

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ABELLA MIDWAY HOSPITAL   
Address:
125 P. VALERO ST., POBLACION VALENCIA CITY, 8709 VALENCIA CITY BUKIDNON REGION X   
Tel No. (088) 844-2660 / 828-0328

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A ZARATE GENERAL HOSPITAL   
Address: ATLAS COMPOUND NAGA ROAD PULANG LUPA AND ZAPO LAS PIÑAS CITY METRO MANILA   
Tel no. 874-6903

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"I SAW RIZAL DIE"

There is one eyewitness to Rizal's execution whose observation was told to a journalist in 1949, or 53 years after the event. A man named Hilarion Martinez, then 72 years old, relayed to Alberto Mendoza of the Sunday Times Magazine what he witnessed during Rizal's execution.

In 1896, a then 20-year old Martinez was a member of the Leales Voluntarios de Manila (Loyal Volunteers of Manila) and was assigned to the drum corps. Martinez and his fellow drum corps members accompanied the condemned man from the time he left Fort Santiago until he reached Bagumbayan. Because of his role in the drum corps, it is said that he occupied a good vantage point from which to observe the execution. Martinez' complete account is reproduced below:

"It was six o'clock in the morning of December 30, 1896, when we woke up at our quarters at the corner of Sta. Potenciana and Magallanes Streets, in Intramuros, to attend the execution of Jose Rizal, about which we had been briefed the day before. We were in the Leales Voluntarios de Manila, a semi-military organization under the command of Capt. Manuel Leaño. Our immediate officer was a youthful Spanish lieutenant named Juan Pereira. I was twenty years old then, and a member of the drum corps.

"We marched out of Intramuros through the Puerta Real, or where Nozaleda (now General Luna) Street out through the walls on the south, clad in our cañamo uniforms and with our cajas vivas strapped around our waists. We proceeded to what is now Padre Burgos Street, under an overcast sky and a biting December morn.

"Bagumbayan is not the Luneta now. The waters of Manila Bay still reached the other side of Malecon Drive (now Bonifacio Drive) where the new Luneta is located. The Luneta of those days was as far back as the site of the old Bagumbayan police station, near which lush bamboo thickets grew.

"As we rounded the corner of P. Burgos and General Luna Streets, we got a glimpse of the cuadro, a square formation of about ten companies of Filipino and Spanish soldiers. The former occupied the inner portion of the quadrangle, while the latter were at the rear. This formation was strategic because the Filipino soldiers' position within the cuadro signified that the Spanish authorities wanted Rizal to die in the hands of the Filipino soldiers. If the latter disobeyed the command to fire upon Rizal, the Spanish soldiers positioned at the rear would fire upon them.

"There were civilian spectators, too. The side of the cuadro near the bay was open.

"As we approached the quadrangle, we saw some Spanish military officers earnestly talking in low voices. Rizal was nowhere to be seen – yet. Not having had a glimpse of the man before, I began to wonder what he looked like. I remembered how my mother told me Rizal was so learned, nobody could poison him as he always carried with him his own spoon and fork with which he could detect whether his food was poisoned or not. I heard too, of his fighting for our (Filipino) cause aside from legends that were beginning to be woven around him.

"Soon the small crowd heard the muffle sound of our approaching vivas draped with black cloth during execution ceremonies. A slight commotion broke out at the right end of the cuadro near the bay as some soldiers with fixed bayonets entered followed by a man in black, his arms tied at the elbows from the back, on his head, a derby hat or chistera, on his sides, a Spanish officer and a Jesuit priest.

"When I saw the man, I knew he was Rizal.

"A group of Spanish officers who were standing nearby opened into a semicircular formation or media luna. Then a Spaniard (we would learn later he was Lt. Luis Andrade, one of Rizal's popular Spanish defenders and sympathizers) affectionately shook the latter's hand. When Rizal was near the center of the quadrangle, the mayor de la plaza, a colonel, announced at the bandillo: "En el nombre del Rey, el que se levante la voz a favor del reo sera ejecutado." (In the name of the King, he who raises his voice in favor of the criminal will be executed.)

"A deep silence enshrouded the whole assembly.

"We in the drum corps were about seven paces behind Rizal who then faced the bay. Our commanding officer approached us and told us should Rizal attempt to speak aloud, we should beat our drums hard to drown out his voice. I looked at Rizal. He was of regular build, unshaven, quite pale, perhaps as a result of his confinement but he was visibly composed and serene. A Jesuit approached him, said a prayer and blessed him. Then a colonel approached him too, as our commanding officer ordered us to move two paces backwards, and the firing squad of six Filipinos came forward and took our former position behind Rizal. With visible effort, Rizal raised his right hand which was tied and took off his chistera or derby hat. My heart beat fast, as in all other executions I had witnessed before, I felt tense and nervous. Amidst the silence, Rizal moved his head very slowly up and down, his lips moving as if in prayer.

"Then the commanding officer by means of his saber, signaled the firing squad to aim. Then the saber dropped and there was a simultaneous crack of rifle fire that shattered the stillness of the morning. Jose Rizal wheeled in one last effort and toppled forward with a thud, his face towards the sky and his derby hat thrown ahead. He had fallen in the direction of the bay.

"Many of the reos [condemned criminals] had been caused to kneel and be hoodwinked before they were shot on the head. But Rizal was spared that humiliation.

"Suddenly, as if from nowhere, a small dog appeared and ran in circles around Rizal's fallen body, barking and whimpering. This incident would much later be the subject of our talk in our quarters. Some of my comrades were quick to conclude that it was a premonition of a coming misfortune.

"Then the capitan militar de la sanidad (medical officer) stepped forward, knelt before the fallen man, and felt his pulse. Looking up, he beckoned to a member of the firing squad to come forward and give the final tiro de gracia, another shot done at close range. I thought I saw a faint haze rise from Rizal's coat, but it might be a wisp of the morning mist. Seeing the body before me, I felt weak.

"The officers began to show animation again. They fell in formation and marched to the tune of the Spanish national air, the Paso Doble Marcha de Cadiz.

"As was customary in past executions, we filed past the body to view it for the last time. When we were commanded 'eyes left,' I did not shut my eyes as I did at the sight of the several reos whose heads were blown off by rifle fire. I wanted to see the face of the man for one last time. Rizal lay dead on the dewy grass. The day had started and I realized that I was gazing on the face of the great Malayan; that I was witnessing history in the making."

[Source: Alberto Mendoza, "I saw Rizal Die," Sunday Times Magazine 29 December 1949, pp. 10-11.]

#RizalDeathAnniversary

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MANILA -- The chairman of the House committee on Metro Manila development on Friday urged the Department of Transportation (DOTr) to allow motorcycle ride-hailing firm Angkas to continue its operation for the sake of public interests.

In a statement, Quezon City Rep. Winnie Castelo said the DOTr can issue a Department Order to allow Angkas' ride-hailing operations in the same manner that transportation network companies (TNC) or transport network vehicle services (TNVS) like Grab were allowed to do so.

"A mere DO can suffice to lessen the suffering of the commuting public. DOTr should realize this. If they cannot provide efficient and reliable mass transportation system as they are mandated to do, they should at least be creative and use modern technology. We should not be technical and legalistic on this while millions of Filipinos are suffering from traffic and losing PHP2 billion in lost opportunities," Castelo said.

"DOTr can give its best Christmas gift to the suffering public by withdrawing its petition to the Supreme Court against Angkas," Castelo added.

The Supreme Court issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) earlier this month ordering Angkas to stop its operations.

Castelo also noted that there are pending bills filed in Congress that would legalize motorcycles for hire.

"This would take a lot of time because of the long legislative process. There are other ways to legalize it, to expedite its operations especially now that we are suffering from traffic congestion aggravated due to the holidays," Castelo said.

The DOTr has created a technical working group (TWG) that will review the issue of making motorcycles as a mode of public transport.

In a statement on Friday, the DOTr said the TWG will consist of the DOTr, Land Transportation Office, Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board, Philippine National Police–Highway Patrol Group, Metro Manila Development Authority and representatives of the Senate, House of Representatives, commuter welfare groups, road safety advocates, motorcycle manufacturers, motorcycle organizations, and law schools.

The TWG will conduct deliberations on various issues covering the capability of the motorcycles and drivers for public transport service which are: the types of motorcycles to be permitted; acceptable travel speed of motorcycles for hire; whether to allow the motorcycles on all roads or be limited only to secondary roads or areas not serviced by large vehicles such as buses or trucks; seat and helmet requirements and training for motorcycle bikers that will register as public utility vehicle drivers.

The Supreme Court issued a TRO last December 5 against the decision of the Mandaluyong Regional Trial Court to interfere with Angkas' operations.

It prevented the implementation of the writ of preliminary injunction issued by Judge Carlos Valenzuela of Mandaluyong RTC Branch 213 last August in favor of Angkas, which prohibited the DOTr and LTFRB from apprehending Angkas bikers.

Tugade has ordered the LTFRB to apprehend Angkas bikers, who deliberately defy the order of the high court.

Angkas bikers and operators proven to have continued their service will be meted a PHP6,000 fine and to have their vehicles impounded for three months. They will also be blacklisted from securing a franchise from the LTFRB.

Under Republic Act 4136 or the Land Transportation and Traffic Code, motorcycles are not allowed to operate as public transport services. (PNA)

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MANILA -- The Department of Transportation (DOTr) has created a technical working group (TWG) that will review the issue of making motorcycles as a mode of public transport.
In a statement on Friday, the DOTr said the TWG will consist of the DOTr, Land Transportation Office (LTO), Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB), Philippine National Police – Highway Patrol Group (PNP-HPG), Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) and representatives of the Senate, House of Representatives, commuter welfare groups, road safety advocates, motorcycle manufacturers, motorcycle organizations, and law schools.
Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade has directed the creation of the body amid the temporary restraining order (TRO) issued by the Supreme Court earlier this month to stop the operations of motorcycle ride-hailing firm Angkas.
"Naiintindihan natin ang pagtangkilik ng ilan nating kababayan sa mga motorsiklo bilang public transport. Pero tandaan natin na may batas laban dito, at may TRO pa ang Korte Suprema. Ang batas ay batas, at hindi po mauuna ang ehekutibo sa paglabag nito. Pero nakikinig ang DOTr. Kaya kahit wala pang desisyon ang SC,bumubuo na tayo ng TWG para pag-aralan ang posibilidad na maging public transport ang mga motorsiklo (We understand that some of our commuters are patronizing motorcycles as public transport. But we must remember that there is a law against it and a TRO was issued by the Supreme Court. The law is the law and the executive will not be the first to violate it. But the DOTr is listening. That is why even if the Supreme Court has yet to come up with its decision, we are forming a TWG to study the possibility of making motorcycles as public transport)," Tugade said.
The TWG will conduct deliberations on various issues covering the capability of the motorcycles and drivers for public transport service which are: the types of motorcycles to be permitted; acceptable travel speed of motorcycles for hire; whether to allow the motorcycles on all roads or be limited only to secondary roads or areas not serviced by large vehicles such as buses or trucks; seat and helmet requirements and training for motorcycle bikers that will register as public utility vehicle drivers.
The Supreme Court issued a TRO last December 5 against the decision of the Mandaluyong Regional Trial Court to interfere with Angkas' operations.
It prevented the implementation of the writ of preliminary injunction issued by Judge Carlos Valenzuela of Mandaluyong RTC Branch 213 last August in favor of Angkas, which prohibited the DOTr and LTFRB from apprehending Angkas bikers.
Tugade has ordered the LTFRB to apprehend Angkas bikers, who deliberately defy the order of the high court.
Angkas bikers and operators proven to have continued their service will be meted a PHP6,000 fine and to have their vehicles impounded for three months. They will also be blacklisted from securing a franchise from the LTFRB.
Under Republic Act No. 4136 or the Land Transportation and Traffic Code, motorcycles are not allowed to operate as public transport services.
Various stakeholders in the transportation sector are pushing for the amendment of this law to enable motorcycles to provide public transport to commuters. (PNA)


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December 14, 2018

An Amazing Fact: During World War II, a young 21-year-old man entered an Air Force enlistment center and eagerly asked to join the service. He said his name was Kincaid, and he wanted to become a flyer. Passing the physical, he was accepted into the Air Force and, after training in the United States, he was assigned to a bomber squadron at the Benghazi Air Base in North Africa.

As a skillful gunner on a B-24 bomber, Kincaid soon ran up a terrific record, was decorated and promoted to sergeant. But then one day his best buddy was killed, and this so deeply affected Kincaid that the depressed young airman asked for a transfer. Because of his sterling record, the transfer was granted. 

The flyer returned to the United States and immediately went to see his commanding officer. His name, he told the astonished officer, was not Kincaid, it was Fletcher, and he was not 21 years old as his military record stated, but only 16. He had been only 15 when he had enlisted the year before, lying then about both his name and his age. Tom Fletcher was the youngest combat flyer in Benghazi; at the age of 16, he was already a veteran. He had completed 35 combat missions, flying 300 hours. He had been given the Air Medal with one silver cluster and five bronze clusters and had won the Distinguished Flying Cross. 

Sometimes young people doubt that God can use them in His service because of their youth. Paul told young Timothy not to let anyone put him down because of his age. He advised him to study and to use the special gift God gave him to help others. He also told Timothy if he continued following the right path and doing good, he would become a powerful example to others and a soul-winner for God. 

God loves to have young people in His service. The Bible says, "Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, before the difficult days come, and the years draw near when you say, 'I have no pleasure in them'" (Ecclesiastes 12:1). Don't let lack of experience hold you back. God isn't looking for experienced disciples, just dedicated ones.

KEY BIBLE TEXTS
Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in a word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. 1 Timothy 4:12

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"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer." - Rainer Maria Rilke

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Usa patay samtang duha angol human aksidente didto sa Albur. - by Joshua Fullido

Patay ang biktima gipaila nga si Ralph John Mumar, 18 anyos, taga brgy. Tagbuane , Albur   nga nakaangkon ug grabeng bun-og sa ulo nga maoy nakaingon sa hinanaling kamtayon , samtang ang driver sa multicab gipaila nga si Adriano Genovia Sr. , 52 anyos, minyo , ug  ang sakay niini nga si Adriano Genovia Jr. , 28 anyos, ulitawo , nga taga brgy. Alegria sur , Loay  nga pulos nakaangkon ug pangos ug bun-og sa lawas.

Matod pa ni PO3  Rodel  Aguipo  Albur Pnp  nga nahitabo ang aksidente pasado alas 5:30 sa buntag kagahapon nga nagmaneho sa rusco nga multicab si Genovia   gikan sa ilaha  unya paingon  unta dinhe sa dakbayan  apan pag-abot didto sa Tagbuane bridge , kalit lang kining nawad-an ug control gumikan sa dangog  nga kalsada nga nakaingon nga nabanggaan niya si Mumar nga naglakaw didto sa maong dapit.

Nahagbong ang multicab sa tulay  ug naapil usab ang biktima nga nakaingon nga gidali dayon kini pagrescue ug gidala sa tambalanan.

Tungod sa grabeng angol nga naangkon ni Mumar wa madugay nabugtuan kini sa hinuwam nga kinabuhi  samtang gumikan sa mga gagmay angol nga naangkon sa duha , gipapauli ra kini sa mga doctor.

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What The Heck! Bohol Had Their New International Airport Already Done!
By: Y. A. Joey Tugung | 11/29/18

Unbeknownst to most of the Zamboangueños, Bohol, or the Boholanos for that matter, had their new international airport in Panglao Island inaugurated the other day, November 27, by no less than President Rodrigo Duterte himself. To the tune of P8.9 billion, it is ten times bigger than the old Tagbilaran Airport it replaced.

In 2003, NEDA gave the green light for the construction of this new airport. In March 2013, Japan's ODA and JICA agreed to fund its construction. In short, in a period of 5 years, again let me repeat here, in 5 years' time the country's first "eco-airport," whose runway is 2.8 km in length that sits in a 220- hectare expanse, the dreams of the Boholanos came into fruition. And by and large, it only took a decade or so (i.e., from feasibility study, to planning, project funding and project implementation) for the project to materialize.

Contrast this to our pathetic-looking Zamboanga International Airport, which, by the way, is the country's 10th busiest airport, 3rd busiest airport in Mindanao and the Philippines' Gateway to the Southern Border. Decades have gone by, and yet, up to now we are still in the FEASIBILITY STUDY STAGE!

Based on my cursory research, since the early part of 1990's when NEDA approved the relocation and construction of a new airport, there have been over-all 6, again 6 feasibility studies that were conducted! And yet, more than 20 years thereafter and up to now, we still don't have our dream airport transferred from Barangay Sta. Maria to a planned 104-hectare lot located between Barangays Mercedes, Talabaan and Taluksangay, which could possibly make it the largest airport in Mindanao (its runway being 3.4 kilometers in length).

And to add insult to injury, what is worst, at this juncture we are still mired and languishing in the feasibility study phase of the project! In obnoxious fashion, this latter part of this year, the bright boys of DOTr conducted anew another feasibility study, which has cost us a staggering amount of P17 million! And this is already the 7th study (geotechnical investigation) that has been conducted by DOTr. And accordingly, the projected amount to construct the new Zamboanga International Airport is between P40 to P60 Billion!!!, which would make it then 6 times more in cost compared to the new Panglao Island International Airport.

In the meantime, or while the government is still conducting the feasibility studies, yet on December 21, 2007, DOTC allotted some P257 million (US$5.2 million) for the improvement of the Zamboanga International Airport, which Band-Aid improvement we have not even tangibly felt nor aesthetically seen at all! Proof thereof, the runway still has potholes, the building still looks anemic, the toilets smell bad and malfunctioning, the Jurassic-like baggage carousel conveyor belt is creaking and the baggage push carts are few and are destroyed, such that, recently, comically certain private citizens even have to donate push carts.

I am addressing this to the past and current elected officials of Zamboanga City. I might be simplistic in my arguments, and perhaps ignorant of lots of things that had happened, but I have this one logical, sensible and practical question for them: For decades (2 decades in fact!) all of you have permanently ran under the platform of government and campaign promise to move the current airport to the east coast, and yet, despite having been elected into office (in fact over and over again to the point where we puke when we see your faces), how come that up to now we are still in the feasibility study phase of the project? Understand bozos and morons, we are not only talking here about the first feasibility study but 7, again 7 feasibility studies! which have already costs us approximately a total of P32 million! out of an allocated budget of P70 million just for the feasibility studies alone!

But this is what I know, under such glaring circumstances (this not to forget their constant promises to the electorates in every election cycle to fix the perennial brownouts, traffic, floods, deteriorated infrastructures, garbage problems, among many others, we have in the city), our local and national elected leaders are nothing but all talk (aka INCOMPETENT and CORRUPT!). And yet, they still have the gall and the temerity (aka THICK FACE) to seek our votes again in this forthcoming mid-term elections with the same old promises! And stupid us, we still vote for them again, again and again! Indeed, the Gods must be crazy in Zamboanga City!

- NOTHING FOLLOWS | END OF ARTICLE -

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perfunctory /pəˈfʌŋ(k)t(ə)ri  /
▸ adjective (of an action) carried out without real interest, feeling, or effort:
he gave a perfunctory nod.
– DERIVATIVES
perfunctorily /pəˈfʌŋ(k)t(ə)rɪli  / adverb
perfunctoriness /pəˈfʌŋ(k)t(ə)rɪnəs  / noun
– ORIGIN late 16th century : from late Latin perfunctorius 'careless', from Latin perfunct- 'done with, discharged', from the verb perfungi.


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CEBU CITY -- Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Roy Cimatu on Thursday ordered all regional directors of the agency to have all the rivers under their jurisdiction cleaned within a one-year period.

Cimatu issued the order here during the opening of the 4th International River Summit at Radisson Blu Hotel.

The Environment secretary said it is the DENR's responsibility to improve the conditions of the rivers in the country and he is giving the agency's regional heads one year to comply with his directive.

He said he will be checking on all the rivers in the country six months from now and the region with the cleanest river will be duly rewarded and recognized.

Regional directors who fail to comply with the order, according to Cimatu, will undergo an evaluation process of their performance and may face sanction or be replaced.

The International River Summit is a biennial multi-partner initiative organized to intensify promotion of clean river advocacy and governance.

The ribbon-cutting and opening ceremonies were spearheaded by Mandaue City Mayor Luigi Quisumbing and attended by Cimatu and Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma, among other guests.

The 4th edition of the Summit is being hosted by the Mandaue City government in partnership with the League of Cities of the Philippines and the DENR-River Basin Control Office.

With the theme "Raising Awareness, Commitment, and Resources for the Rivers," the Summit will provide a venue for information and knowledge exchange on the latest technologies and trends on basin governance, discussions on issues and concerns, and sharing of innovations and solutions to synergize strategies and practices on river basin management.

The rehabilitation of Cebu's Butuanon River will be among the subjects to be tackled in the three-day summit, which ends Saturday. (PNA)

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MISTER GIBOKBOK NI MISIS
kay nanungog nga tambok og dako'g kaon
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Nakalukat pina abtik og medical certificate ang usa ka bana human kini giayo'g bokbok sa iyang asawa gumikan sa iyang pagsungog sa Buhangin, Davao City.

Ang biktimang si alyas Romel, 37 nagpakitabang sa Buhangin Police Station kon asa iyang gireklamo ang iyang asawa nga si Evelyn, 39.

Sumala pa ni Romel nga igo lamang niyang gisungog ang iyang asawa tambok ug dako'g kaon ug didto na kini giatake dayon gikulata.

Tata ang baba ni Romel ug napuno usab og kinawrasan ang lawas niini rason nga gitambagan na lamang kini sa pulis nga sigurohon nga maka kuha og medical certificate aron magamit niini kung buot niyang mupasaka og kaso.

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RMN Gensan - Asawa nadakpan sa akto sa iyang bana nga nagdulog sa laing binuhat

General Santos City—Dakpan sa akto sa usa ka bana nga itago lang sa pangalang Bernie, legal age, Mananagat,  residenti sa Barangay Labangal, Gensan ang iyang asawa nga adunay kadulog nga laing lalaki sa usa ka balay didto mismo sa ilang lugar.

Nasayran nga midangop sa buhatan sa Police Station 2 ang bana human nga dili niya madawat ang pag dula matud pag kalayo sa iyang asawa nga itago lang sa Pangalang Kristel ug sa kukadidang niini nga itago lang sa pangalang Leo, residenti gihapon sa maong lugar.

Buot karon sa bana nga mapriso ang duruha gumikan matud pa sa pagbudhi kaniya.

Sa karon nagpadayon pa ang gihimong imbistigasyon kalabutan sa maong insidenti.

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REP. FRANCISCO G. DATOL, JR.
SENIOR CITIZEN Party-list
Vice Chair, Special Committee on Senior Citizen
Member, Committee on Veterans Affairs & Welfare
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AFP PENSION BILL GETS SUPPORT OF SENIOR CITIZEN PARTY-LIST

Rep. Datol suggests tax on firearms, bullets, explosives imported by private sector.

Senior Citizen Party-list Representative Francisco Datol assured retired and retiring military personnel that he will champion the bill fixing the Armed Forces of the Philippines pension plan which involves the creation of an office or subsidiary to be run by the Government Service Insurance System.

"I agree with the broad strokes of the solution Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez and Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno have disclosed so far and I am hereby committing to file and push for the draft bill as soon as the DOF and DBM have finalized it," said Rep. Datol, who is Vice Chair of the House Special Committee on Senior Citizens and Member of the Committee on Veterans Affairs and Welfare.

Datol is also on the House Committee on Civil Service and Professional Regulation and Committee on Social Services.

"To lessen the premiums burden on retired soldiers who are now senior citizens and on the retiring military servicemen, I suggest that there be a particular tax on firearms, ammunition, and explosives imported by the businesses and private individuals and that proceeds of this tax go to the soldiers' pension fund," the senior citizen congressman said.

Datol also said he is open to discussing with the DOF and DBM other options to ensure the financial health of the military pension fund. (END)

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NAKULANGAN SA PERFORMANCE, MISIS GIKULATA OG GIDUNGGAB SI MISTER

BUN-OG samtang  nagping-it sa kasakit nga midangop sa Toril Police station ning siyudad sa Davao ang usa ka bana human nga sumala pa gikulata ug gidunggab siya sa iyang kaugalingong asawa.

Nagkalagom-lagom ang kalawasan nga midangop sa kapulisan ang biktima nga si Alyas Roger diin saysay niini nga tunga-tunga sa loving-loving sa iyang misis nga si alyas Marie, kalit nalang matud pa silang naglalis tungod  wala nakuntento ang asawa sa performance sa bana.

Nasayran nga unang gikulata sa asawa ang iyang bana apan wala pa makuntento diin mipunit kini og kotselyo ug nanunggab.

Gitambagan ang reklamante nga ipadangat ang kaso sa Barangay arun mahatagan og pasiunang solusyon samtang gipatambalan ang mga pangos ug samad sa Southern Philippines Medical Center kun SPMC.

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Book of Joshua 1
God's Instructions to Joshua

 1  After Moses, the servant of the LORD, had died, the LORD spoke to Nun's son Joshua, announcing to him,

 2  "My servant Moses is dead. Now get ready to cross the Jordan River—you and all the people—to the land that I'm giving the Israelis.

 3  I'm giving you every place where the sole of your foot falls, just as I promised Moses.

 4  Your territorial border will extend from the wilderness to the Lebanon Mountains, to the river—that great River Euphrates—all the land of the Hittites—as far as the Mediterranean Sea where the sun sets.

 5  No one will be victorious against you for the rest of your life. I'll be with you just like I was with Moses—I'll neither fail you nor abandon you.

 6  "Be strong and courageous, because you'll be leading this people to inherit the land that I promised to give their ancestors.

 7  Only be strong and very courageous to ensure that you obey all the instructions that my servant Moses gave you—turn neither to the right nor to the left from it—so that you may succeed wherever you go.

 8  This set of instructions is not to cease being a part of your conversations. Meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to carry out everything that's written in it, for then you'll prosper and succeed.

 9  I've commanded you, haven't I? Be strong and courageous. Don't be fearful or discouraged, because the LORD your God is with you wherever you go."

Joshua Gives Orders to His Leaders
 10  Then Joshua gave orders to the officials of the people.

 11  "Go through the camp," he said, "and command the people, 'Prepare provisions for yourselves, because within three days you'll be crossing the Jordan River to take possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving you—so go get it!'"

 12  Joshua told the descendants of Reuben, the descendants of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh,

 13  "Remember what Moses commanded you when he said, 'The LORD your God will provide you rest, as well as this land.'

 14  Your wives, your young children, and your livestock will remain in the land that Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan River, but you and all your warriors will cross, ready for battle, in full view of your relatives, and you will help them

 15  until the LORD gives relief to your relatives, as he did to you. Then they'll take the land that the LORD your God is giving them as their inheritance. You'll return to the land of your heritage and receive the inheritance that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the east side of the Jordan River, in the direction of the sunrise."

The People Reaffirm Their Commitment
 16  "We'll do everything that you commanded," they replied. "We'll go wherever you send us.

 17  We'll listen and obey you in everything, just like we did with Moses. Only may the LORD your God be with you, just as he was with Moses.

 18  Anyone who rebels against what you say and doesn't listen to your words regarding everything that you command will be executed. Only be strong and courageous."

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Gospel of John 21
Jesus Appears to Seven of His Disciples

 1  Later on, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberias. This is what happened:

 2  Simon Peter, Thomas (called the Twin), Nathaniel from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two of his other disciples were together.

 3  Simon Peter told them, "I'm going fishing." They all told him, "We'll go with you, too." So they went out and got into the boat but didn't catch a thing that night.

 4  Just as dawn was breaking, Jesus stood on the shore. The disciples didn't realize it was Jesus.

 5  Jesus asked them, "Children, you don't have any fish, do you?" They answered him, "No."

 6  He told them, "Throw the net on the right hand side of the boat, and you'll catch some." So they threw it out and were unable to haul it in because it was so full of fish.

 7  That disciple whom Jesus kept loving told Peter, "It's the Lord!" When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put his clothes back on, because he was practically naked, and jumped into the sea.

 8  But the other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net full of fish. They were only about 200 cubits away from the shore.

 9  When they arrived at the shore, they saw a charcoal fire with fish lying on it, and some bread.

 10  Jesus told them, "Bring me some of the fish you've just caught."

 11  So Simon Peter went aboard and dragged the net ashore. It was full of large fish—153 of them. And although there were so many of them, the net was not torn.

 12  Then Jesus told them, "Come, have breakfast." Now none of the disciples dared to ask him, "Who are you?", because they knew it was the Lord.

 13  Jesus took the bread, gave it to them, and did the same with the fish.

 14  This was now the third time that Jesus revealed himself to the disciples after he had been raised from the dead.

Jesus Speaks with Peter
 15  When they had finished breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" Peter told him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." Jesus told him, "Feed my lambs."

 16  Then he asked him a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter told him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." Jesus told him, "Take care of my sheep."

 17  He asked him a third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was deeply hurt that he had asked him a third time, "Do you love me?" So he told him, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I love you!" Jesus told him, "Feed my sheep.

 18  "Truly, I tell you emphatically, when you were young, you would fasten your belt and go wherever you liked. But when you get old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will fasten your belt and take you where you don't want to go."

 19  Now he said this to show by what kind of death he would glorify God. After saying this, Jesus told him, "Keep following me."

Jesus and the Beloved Disciple
 20  Peter turned around and noticed the disciple whom Jesus kept loving following them. He was the one who had put his head on Jesus' chest at the supper and had asked, "Lord, who is the one who is going to betray you?"

 21  When Peter saw him, he said, "Lord, what about him?"

 22  Jesus told him, "If it's my will for him to remain until I come back, how does that concern you? You must keep following me!"

 23  So the rumor spread among the brothers that this disciple wasn't going to die. Yet Jesus didn't say to Peter that he wasn't going to die, but, "If it's my will for him to remain until I come back, how does that concern you?"

 24  This is the disciple who is testifying to these things and has written them down. We know that his testimony is true.

 25  Of course, Jesus also did many other things, and I suppose that if every one of them were written down, the world couldn't contain the books that would be written.

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Gospel of John 20
Jesus is Raised from the Dead

 1  On the first day of the week, early in the morning and while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and noticed that the stone had been removed from the tomb.

 2  So she ran off and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, whom Jesus kept loving. She told them, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have put him!"

 3  So Peter and the other disciple took off for the tomb.

 4  The two of them were running together, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and came to the tomb first.

 5  Bending over to look inside, he noticed the linen cloths lying there, but didn't go in.

 6  At this point Simon Peter arrived, following him, and went straight into the tomb. He observed that the linen cloths were lying there,

 7  and that the handkerchief that had been on Jesus' head was not lying with the linen cloths but was rolled up in a separate place.

 8  Then the other disciple, who arrived at the tomb first, went inside, looked, and believed.

 9  For they did not yet understand the Scripture that said that Jesus had to rise from the dead.

 10  So the disciples went back to their homes.

Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene
 11  Meanwhile, Mary stood crying outside the tomb. As she cried, she bent over and looked into the tomb.

 12  She saw two angels in white clothes who were sitting down, one at the head and the other at the foot of the place where Jesus' body had been lying.

 13  They asked her, "Lady, why are you crying?" She told them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don't know where they have put him."

 14  After she had said this, she turned around and noticed Jesus standing there, without realizing that it was Jesus.

 15  Jesus asked her, "Dear lady, why are you crying? Who are you looking for?" Thinking he was the gardener, she told him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him away."

 16  Jesus told her, "Mary!" She turned around and told him in Hebrew, "Rabbouni!" (which means "Teacher").

 17  Jesus told her, "Don't hold on to me, because I haven't yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, 'I'm ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

 18  So Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, "I've seen the Lord!" She also told them what he had told her.

Jesus Appears to the Disciples
 19  It was the evening of the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Jesus came and stood among them. He told them, "Peace be with you."

 20  After saying this, he showed them his hands and his side, and when they saw the Lord, the disciples were overjoyed.

 21  Jesus told them again, "Peace be with you. Just as the Father has sent me, so I am sending you."

 22  When he had said this, he breathed on them and told them, "Receive the Holy Spirit.

 23  If you forgive people's sins, they are forgiven. If you retain people's sins, they are retained."

Jesus Appears to Thomas
 24  Thomas, one of the Twelve (called the Twin), wasn't with them when Jesus came.

 25  So the other disciples kept telling him, "We've seen the Lord!" But he told them, "Unless I see the nail marks in his hands, put my finger into them, and put my hand into his side, I'll never believe!"

 26  A week later, his disciples were again inside, and Thomas was with them. Even though the doors were shut, Jesus came, stood among them, and said, "Peace be with you."

 27  Then he told Thomas, "Put your finger here, and look at my hands. Take your hand, and put it into my side. Stop doubting, but believe."

 28  Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!"

 29  Jesus told him, "Is it because you've seen me that you have believed? How blessed are those who have never seen me and yet have believed!"

The Purpose of the Book
 30  Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples that are not recorded in this book.

 31  But these have been recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and so that through believing you may have life in his name.

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Gospel of John 19
Jesus is Sentenced to Death
 1  Then Pilate had Jesus taken away and whipped.

 2  The soldiers twisted some thorns into a victor's crown, put it on his head, and threw a purple robe on him.

 3  They kept coming up to him and saying, "Long live the king of the Jews!" Then they began to slap him on the face.

 4  Pilate went outside again and told the Jews, "Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him."

 5  Then Jesus came outside, wearing the victor's crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate told them, "Here is the man!"

 6  When the high priests and the officials saw him, they shouted, "Crucify him! Crucify him!" Pilate told them, "You take him and crucify him. I find no basis for a charge against him."

 7  The Jewish leaders answered Pilate, "We have a law, and according to that Law he must die because he made himself out to be the Son of God."

 8  When Pilate heard this, he became even more afraid.

 9  Returning to his headquarters, he asked Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus did not answer him.

 10  So Pilate asked him, "Aren't you going to speak to me? You realize, don't you, that I have the authority to release you and the authority to crucify you?"

 11  Jesus answered him, "You have no authority over me at all, except what was given to you from above. That's why the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin."

 12  From then on, Pilate tried to release him, but the Jewish leaders kept shouting, "If you release this fellow, you're not a friend of Caesar! Anyone who claims to be a king is defying Caesar!"

 13  When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside and sat down on the judgment seat in a place called The Pavement, which in Hebrew is called Gabbatha.

 14  Now it was the Preparation Day for the Passover, about noon. He told the Jewish leaders, "Here is your king!"

 15  Then they shouted, "Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!" Pilate asked them, "Should I crucify your king?" The high priests responded, "We have no king but Caesar!"

 16  Then Pilate handed him over to be crucified, and they took Jesus away.

Jesus is Crucified
 17  Carrying the cross all by himself, he went out to what is called The Place of a Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.

 18  There they crucified him, along with two others, one on each side of him with Jesus in the middle.

 19  Pilate wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, "Jesus from Nazareth, the King of the Jews."

 20  Many Jews read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city. It was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.

 21  Then the Jewish high priests told Pilate, "Don't write, 'The King of the Jews,' but that this fellow said, 'I am the King of the Jews.'"

 22  Pilate replied, "What I have written I have written."

 23  When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier, and took his cloak as well. The cloak was seamless, woven in one piece from the top down.

 24  So they told each other, "Let's not tear it. Instead, let's throw dice to see who gets it." This was to fulfill the Scripture that says, "They divided my clothes among themselves, and for my clothing they threw dice." So that is what the soldiers did.

 25  Meanwhile, standing near Jesus' cross were his mother, his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

 26  When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he kept loving standing there, he told his mother, "Dear lady, here is your son."

 27  Then he told the disciple, "Here is your mother." And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.

Jesus Dies on the Cross
 28  After this, when Jesus realized that everything was now completed, he said (in order to fulfill the Scripture), "I'm thirsty."

 29  A jar of sour wine was standing there, so they put a sponge full of the wine on a branch of hyssop and held it to his mouth.

 30  After Jesus had taken the wine, he said, "It is finished." Then he bowed his head and released his spirit.

Jesus' Side is Pierced
 31  Since it was the Preparation Day, the Jewish leaders did not want to leave the bodies on the crosses during the Sabbath, because that was a particularly important Sabbath. So they asked Pilate to have the men's legs broken and the bodies removed.

 32  So the soldiers went and broke the legs of the first man and then of the other man who had been crucified with him.

 33  But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.

 34  Instead, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and blood and water immediately came out.

 35  The one who saw this has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows he is telling the truth so that you, too, may believe,

 36  because these things happened so that the Scripture might be fulfilled: "None of his bones will be broken."

 37  In addition, another passage of Scripture says, "They will look on the one whom they pierced."

Jesus is Buried
 38  Later on, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus (though a secret one because he was afraid of the Jewish leaders), asked Pilate to let him remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, and he came and removed his body.

 39  Nicodemus, the man who had first come to Jesus at night, also arrived, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about 100 litra.

 40  They took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in linen cloths along with spices, according to the burial custom of the Jews.

 41  A garden was located in the place where he was crucified, and in that garden was a new tomb in which no one had yet been placed.

 42  Because it was the Jewish Preparation Day, and because the tomb was nearby, they put Jesus there.

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Gospel of John 18
Jesus is Betrayed and Arrested
 1  After Jesus had said all of this, he went with his disciples across the Kidron valley to a place where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered.

 2  Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, because Jesus often met there with his disciples.

 3  So Judas took a detachment of soldiers and some officers from the high priests and the Pharisees and went there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.

 4  Then Jesus, knowing everything that was going to happen, went forward and asked them, "Who are you looking for?"

 5  They answered him, "Jesus from Nazareth." Jesus told them, "I AM." Judas, the man who betrayed him, was standing with them.

 6  When Jesus told them, "I AM," they backed away and fell to the ground.

 7  So he asked them again, "Who are you looking for?" They said, "Jesus from Nazareth."

 8  Jesus replied, "I told you that I am the one, so if you are looking for me, let these men go."

 9  This was to fulfill what he had said, "I did not lose a single one of those you gave me."

 10  Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.

 11  Jesus told Peter, "Put your sword back into its sheath. Shouldn't I drink the cup that the Father has given me?"

Jesus before the High Priest
 12  Then the soldiers, along with their commander and the Jewish officers, arrested Jesus and tied him up.

 13  First they brought him to Annas, because he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year.

 14  Caiaphas was the person who had advised the Jews that it was better to have one man die for the people.

Peter Denies Jesus
 15  Simon Peter and another disciple were following Jesus. Since the other disciple was known to the high priest, he accompanied Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest.

 16  Peter, however, stood outside the gate. So this other disciple who was known to the high priest went out and spoke to the gatekeeper and brought Peter inside.

 17  The young woman at the gate asked Peter, "You aren't one of this man's disciples, too, are you?" "I am not," he replied.

 18  Meanwhile, the servants and officers were standing around a charcoal fire they had built and were warming themselves because it was cold. Peter was also standing with them, keeping himself warm.

The High Priest Questions Jesus
 19  Then the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his own teaching.

 20  Jesus answered him, "I have spoken publicly to the world. I have always taught in the synagogue or in the Temple, where all Jews meet together, and I have said nothing in secret.

 21  Why do you question me? Question those who heard what I said. These are the people who know what I said."

 22  When he said this, one of the officers standing nearby slapped Jesus on the face and demanded, "Is that any way to answer the high priest?"

 23  Jesus answered him, "If I have said anything wrong, tell me what it was. But if I have told the truth, why do you hit me?"

 24  Then Annas sent him, with his hands tied, to Caiaphas the high priest.

Peter Denies Jesus Again
 25  Meanwhile, Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. Some people asked him, "You aren't one of his disciples, too, are you?" He denied it by saying, "I am not!"

 26  Then one of the high priest's servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "I saw you in the garden with Jesus, didn't I?"

 27  Peter again denied it, and immediately a rooster crowed.

Pilate Questions Jesus
 28  Then Jesus was led from Caiaphas to the governor's headquarters early in the morning. The Jews did not go into the headquarters, to avoid becoming unclean and unable to eat the Passover meal.

 29  So Pilate came out to them and asked, "What accusation are you bringing against this man?"

 30  They answered him, "If he weren't a criminal, we wouldn't have handed him over to you."

 31  Pilate told them, "You take him and try him according to your Law." The Jewish leaders told him, "It is not legal for us to put anyone to death."

 32  This was to fulfill what Jesus had said when he indicated the kind of death he was to die.

 33  So Pilate went back into the governor's headquarters, summoned Jesus, and asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?"

 34  Jesus replied, "Are you asking this on your own initiative, or did others tell you about me?"

 35  Pilate replied, "I am not a Jew, am I? It is your own nation and high priests who have handed you over to me. What have you done?"

 36  Jesus answered, "My kingdom does not belong to this world. If my kingdom belonged to this world, my servants would fight to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish leaders. But for now my kingdom is not from here."

 37  Pilate asked him, "So you are a king?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. I was born for this, and I came into the world for this: to testify to the truth. Everyone who is committed to the truth listens to my voice."

 38  Pilate asked him, "What is 'truth'?" and then he went out to the Jewish leaders again and told them, "I find no basis for a charge against him.

 39  But you have a custom that I release one person for you at Passover. Do you want me to release for you the king of the Jews?"

 40  At this, they shouted out again, "Not this fellow, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a revolutionary.

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Gospel of John 17
Jesus Prays for Himself, His Disciples, and His Future Followers

 1  After Jesus had said this, he looked up to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, so that the Son may glorify you.

 2  For you have given him authority over all humanity so that he might give eternal life to all those you gave him.

 3  And this is eternal life: to know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent—Jesus the Messiah.

 4  I glorified you on earth by completing the task you gave me to do.

 5  "So now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world existed.

 6  I have made your name known to these men whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.

 7  Now they realize that everything you gave me comes from you,

 8  because the words that you gave me I passed on to them. They have received them and know for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.

 9  "I am asking on their behalf. I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you gave me, because they are yours.

 10  All that is mine is yours, and what is yours is mine, and I have been glorified through them.

 11  I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by your Name, the Name that you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one.

 12  While I was with them, I protected them by the authority that you gave me. I guarded them, and not one of them became lost except the one who was destined for destruction, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

 13  "And now I am coming to you, and I say these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves.

 14  I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I don't belong to the world.

 15  I'm not asking you to take them out of the world but to protect them from the evil one.

 16  They don't belong to the world, just as I don't belong to the world.

 17  "Sanctify them by the truth. Your word is truth.

 18  Just as you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.

 19  It is for their sakes that I sanctify myself, so that they, too, may be sanctified by the truth.

 20  I ask not only on behalf of these men, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their message,

 21  so that they may all be one. Just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be one in us, so that the world may believe that you sent me.

 22  "I have given them the glory that you gave me, so that they may be one, just as we are one.

 23  I am in them, and you are in me. May they be completely one, so that the world may know that you sent me and that you have loved them as you loved me.

 24  Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am and to see my glory, which you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

 25  "Righteous Father, the world has never known you. Yet I have known you, and these men have known that you sent me.

 26  I made your name known to them, and will continue to make it known, so that the love you have for me may be in them and I myself may be in them."

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Gospel of John 16
 1  "I have told you this to keep you from falling away.

 2  You'll be thrown out of the synagogues. Yes, a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he's serving God.

 3  They'll do this because they haven't known the Father or me.

 4  But I've told you this, so that when the time comes you'll remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell you this in the beginning, because I was still with you."

The Work of the Spirit
 5  "But now I am going to the one who sent me. Yet none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?'

 6  But because I have told you this, sorrow has filled your hearts.

 7  However, I'm telling you the truth. It's for your advantage that I'm going away, because if I don't go away, the Helper won't come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

 8  When he comes, he will convict the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment—

 9  of sin, because they don't believe in me;

 10  of righteousness, because I'm going to the Father and you will no longer see me;

 11  and of judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

 12  "I still have a lot to say to you, but you cannot bear it now.

 13  Yet when the Spirit of Truth comes, he'll guide you into all truth. He won't speak on his own accord, but he'll speak whatever he hears and will declare to you the things that are to come.

 14  He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

 15  All that the Father has is mine. That is why I said, 'He will take what is mine and declare it to you.'

 16  In a little while you will no longer see me, then in a little while you will see me again."

 17  At this point, some of his disciples asked each other, "What does he mean by telling us, 'In a little while you will no longer see me, then in a little while you will see me again,' and, 'because I am going to the Father'?"

 18  They kept saying, "What is this 'in a little while' that he keeps talking about? We don't know what he means."

Sorrow will Turn to Joy
 19  Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him a question, so he asked them, "Are you discussing among yourselves what I meant when I said, 'In a little while you will no longer see me, then in a little while you will see me again'?

 20  Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, you'll cry and mourn, but the world will rejoice. You'll be deeply distressed, but your pain will turn into joy.

 21  When a woman is in labor she has pain, because her time has come. Yet when she has given birth to her child, she doesn't remember the agony anymore because of the joy of having brought a human being into the world.

 22  Now you are having pain. But I'll see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

 23  On that day, you won't ask me for anything. Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, whatever you ask the Father for in my name, he will give it to you.

 24  So far you haven't asked for anything in my name. Keep asking and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete."

Victory over the World
 25  "I have said these things to you in figurative language. The time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

 26  At that time, you will make your requests in my name, so that I will have no need to ask the Father on your behalf,

 27  because the Father himself loves you, and because you have loved me and believed that I came from God.

 28  I left the Father and came into the world. Now I'm leaving the world and going back to the Father."

 29  Jesus' disciples said, "Well, now you're speaking plainly and not using figurative language.

 30  Now we know that you know everything and don't need to have anyone ask you any questions. Because of this, we believe that you have come from God."

 31  Jesus answered them, "Do you now believe?

 32  Listen, the time is coming, indeed it has already come, when you will be scattered, each of you to his own home, and you will leave me all by myself. Yet I'm not alone, because the Father is with me.

 33  I have told you this so that through me you may have peace. In the world you'll have trouble, but be courageous—I've overcome the world!"

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Gospel of John 15
Jesus the True Vine

 1  "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vintner.

 2  He cuts off every branch that does not produce fruit in me, and he cuts back every branch that does produce fruit, so that it might produce more fruit.

 3  You are already clean because of what I've spoken to you.

 4  "Abide in me, and I will abide in you. Just as the branch cannot produce fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.

 5  I am the vine, you are the branches. The one who abides in me while I abide in him produces much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.

 6  Unless a person abides in me, he is thrown away like a pruned branch and dries up. People gather such branches, throw them into a fire, and they are burned up.

 7  "If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you can ask for anything you want, and you'll receive it.

 8  This is how my Father is glorified, when you produce a lot of fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

 9  Just as the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. So abide in my love.

 10  If you keep my commandments, you'll abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

 11  I've told you this, so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.

 12  "This is my commandment: that you love one another as I have loved you.

 13  No one shows greater love than when he lays down his life for his friends.

 14  You are my friends, if you do what I command you.

 15  I don't call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn't know what his master is doing. But I've called you friends, because I've made known to you everything that I've heard from my Father.

 16  "You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. I have appointed you to go and produce fruit that will last, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give it to you.

 17  I am giving you these commandments so that you may love one another."

The World's Hatred
 18  "If the world hates you, you should realize that it hated me before you.

 19  If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as one of its own. But because you do not belong to the world and I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.

 20  Remember what I told you: 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

 21  They will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

 22  "If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have any sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin.

 23  The person who hates me also hates my Father.

 24  If I hadn't done among them the actions that no one else did, they wouldn't have any sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.

 25  But this happened so that what has been written in their Law might be fulfilled: 'They hated me for no reason.'

 26  "When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father— the Spirit of Truth, who comes from the Father—he will testify on my behalf.

 27  You will testify also, because you have been with me from the beginning.

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Gospel of John 14
Jesus the Way to the Father

 1  "Don't let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me.

 2  There are many rooms in my Father's house. If there weren't, I wouldn't have told you that I am going away to prepare a place for you, would I?

 3  And since I'm going away to prepare a place for you, I'll come back again and welcome you into my presence, so that you may be where I am.

 4  You know where I am going, and you know the way."

 5  Thomas asked him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?"

 6  Jesus told him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

 7  If you have known me, you will also know my Father. From now on you know him and have seen him."

 8  Philip told him, "Lord, show us the Father, and that will satisfy us."

 9  "Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me?" Jesus asked him. "The person who has seen me has seen the Father. So how can you say, 'Show us the Father'?

 10  You believe, don't you, that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I don't speak on my own. It is the Father who dwells in me and who carries out his work.

 11  Believe me, I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Otherwise, believe me because of what I've been doing.

 12  Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the one who believes in me will also do what I'm doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I'm going to the Father.

 13  I'll do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

 14  If you ask me for anything in my name, I will do it."

The Promise of the Helper
 15  "If you love me, keep my commandments.

 16  I will ask the Father to give you another Helper, to be with you always.

 17  He is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor recognizes him. But you recognize him, because he lives with you and will be in you.

 18  I'm not going to forsake you like orphans. I will come back to you.

 19  "In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.

 20  At that time, you'll know that I am in my Father, that you are in me, and that I am in you.

 21  The person who has my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I, too, will love him and reveal myself to him."

 22  Judas (not Iscariot) asked him, "Lord, how is it that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?"

 23  Jesus answered him, "If anyone loves me, he will keep my word. Then my Father will love him, and we will go to him and make our home within him.

 24  The one who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The words that you're hearing me say are not mine, but come from the Father who sent me.

 25  "I have told you this while I am still with you.

 26  But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything that I have told you.

 27  I'm leaving you at peace. I'm giving you my own peace. I'm not giving it to you as the world gives. So don't let your hearts be troubled, and don't be afraid.

 28  You have heard me tell you, 'I'm going away, but I'm coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would rejoice that I'm going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.

 29  I've told you this now, before I leave, so that when I do leave, you will believe.

 30  I won't talk with you much longer, because the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me.

 31  But I'm doing what the Father has commanded me, to let the world know that I love the Father. Get up! Let us leave this place."

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Gospel of John 13
Jesus Washes the Disciples' Feet

 1  Now before the Passover Festival, Jesus realized that his hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

 2  By supper time, the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray him.

 3  Because Jesus knew that the Father had given everything into his control, that he had come from God, and that he was returning to God,

 4  therefore he got up from the table, removed his outer robe, and took a towel and fastened it around his waist.

 5  Then he poured some water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to dry them with the towel that was tied around his waist.

 6  Then he came to Simon Peter, who asked him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?"

 7  Jesus answered him, "You don't realize now what I'm doing, but later on you'll understand."

 8  Peter told him, "You must never wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, "Unless I wash you, you cannot be involved with me."

 9  Simon Peter told him, "Lord, not just my feet, but my hands and my head as well!"

 10  Jesus told him, "Whoever has bathed is entirely clean. He doesn't need to wash himself further, except for his feet. And you men are clean, though not all of you."

 11  For he knew who was going to betray him. That's why he said, "Not all of you are clean."

 12  When Jesus had washed their feet and put on his outer robe, he sat down again and told them, "Do you realize what I've done to you?

 13  You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right because that is what I am.

 14  So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you must also wash one another's feet.

 15  I've set an example for you, so that you may do as I have done to you.

 16  Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, a servant isn't greater than his master, and a messenger isn't greater than the one who sent him.

 17  If you understand these things, how blessed you are if you put them into practice!

 18  I'm not talking about all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But the Scripture must be fulfilled: 'The one who ate bread with me has turned against me.'

 19  I'm telling you this now, before it happens, so that when it does happen, you may believe that I AM.

 20  Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the one who receives whomever I send receives me, and the one who receives me receives the one who sent me."

Jesus Predicts His Betrayal
 21  After saying this, Jesus was deeply troubled in spirit and declared solemnly, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, one of you is going to betray me!"

 22  The disciples began looking at one another, completely mystified about whom he was speaking.

 23  One of his disciples, the one whom Jesus kept loving, had been sitting very close to him.

 24  So Simon Peter motioned to this man to ask Jesus about whom he was speaking.

 25  Leaning forward on Jesus' chest, he asked him, "Lord, who is it?"

 26  Jesus answered, "He is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread after I have dipped it in the dish." Then he took a piece of bread, dipped it, and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.

 27  After he had taken the piece of bread, Satan entered him. Then Jesus told him, "Do quickly what you are going to do!"

 28  Now no one at the table knew why Jesus said this to him.

 29  Some thought that, since Judas had the moneybag, Jesus was telling him to buy what they needed for the festival or to give something to the destitute.

 30  So Judas took the piece of bread, immediately went outside...and it was night.

The New Commandment
 31  After Judas had gone out, Jesus said, "The Son of Man is now glorified, and God has been glorified by him.

 32  If God has been glorified by him, God himself also will glorify the Son of Man, and he will do so quickly.

 33  Little children, I'm with you only a little longer. You will look for me, but what I told the Jewish leaders I now tell you, 'Where I'm going, you cannot come.'

 34  I'm giving you a new commandment...to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.

 35  This is how everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

Jesus Predicts Peter's Denial
 36  Simon Peter asked him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered him, "I'm going where you cannot follow me now, though you will follow me later on."

 37  "Lord, why can't I follow you now?" Peter asked him. "I would lay down my life for you!"

 38  Jesus answered him, "Would you lay down your life for me? I tell you emphatically, a rooster will not crow until you have denied me three times."

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John 12
Mary Anoints Jesus

 1  Six days before the Passover, Jesus arrived in Bethany, where Lazarus lived, the man whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

 2  There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him.

 3  Mary took a litron of very expensive perfume made of pure nard and anointed Jesus' feet. She wiped his feet with her hair, and the house became filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

 4  But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, who was going to betray him, asked,

 5  "Why wasn't this perfume sold for 300 denarii and the money given to the destitute?"

 6  He said this, not because he cared about the destitute, but because he was a thief. He was in charge of the moneybag and would steal what was put into it.

 7  Then Jesus said, "Leave her alone so she can observe the day of my burial,

 8  because you will always have the destitute with you, but you won't always have me."

The Plot against Lazarus
 9  When the large crowd of Jews realized that he was there, they came not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

 10  So the high priests planned to kill Lazarus, too,

 11  since he was the reason why so many of the Jews were leaving to believe in Jesus.

The King Enters Jerusalem
 12  The next day, the large crowd that had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming into Jerusalem.

 13  So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, shouting, "Hosanna! How blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!"

 14  Then Jesus found a young donkey and sat upon it, as it is written:

 15  "Stop being afraid, people of Zion. Look, your king is coming, sitting upon a donkey's colt!"

 16  At first, his disciples didn't understand these things. However, when Jesus had been glorified, they remembered that these things had been written about him and that people had done these things to him.

 17  So the crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to testify to what they had seen.

 18  The crowd was going out to meet Jesus because they had heard that he had performed this sign.

 19  Then the Pharisees told one another, "You see, there is nothing you can do. Look, the world has gone after him!"

Some Greeks Ask to See Jesus
 20  Now some Greeks were among those who had come up to worship at the festival.

 21  They went to Philip (who was from Bethsaida in Galilee) and told him, "Sir, we would like to see Jesus."

 22  Philip went and told Andrew, and Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.

 23  Jesus told them, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

 24  Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it produces a lot of grain.

 25  The one who loves his life will destroy it, and the one who hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.

 26  If anyone serves me, he must follow me. And where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him."

Jesus Speaks about His Death
 27  "Now my soul is in turmoil, and what should I say—'Father, save me from this hour'? No! It was for this very reason that I came to this hour.

 28  Father, glorify your name." Then a voice came from heaven, "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again!"

 29  The crowd standing there heard this and said that it was thunder. Others were saying, "An angel has spoken to him."

 30  Jesus replied, "This voice is for your benefit, not for mine.

 31  Now is the time for the judgment of this world to begin. Now the ruler of this world will be thrown out.

 32  As for me, if I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all people to myself."

 33  He said this to indicate the kind of death he was about to die.

 34  Then the crowd answered him, "We have learned from the Law that the Messiah remains forever. So how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"

 35  Jesus replied to the crowd, "The light is among you only for a short time. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. The person who walks in the darkness is in the darkness and does not know where he is going.

 36  As long as you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of light." After Jesus had said this, he went away and hid from them.

The Unbelief of the Jews
 37  Although he had performed numerous signs in their presence, they did not believe in him,

 38  so that what the prophet Isaiah spoke might be fulfilled when he said: "Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the Lord's power been revealed?"

 39  This is why they could not believe: Isaiah also said,

 40  "He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they might not perceive with their eyes, and understand with their mind and turn, and I would heal them."

 41  Isaiah said this when he saw his glory and spoke about him.

 42  Yet many people, even some of the authorities, believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not admit it so they would not be thrown out of the synagogue.

 43  For they loved the praise of human beings more than the praise of God.

Judgment by Jesus' Word
 44  Then Jesus said loudly, "The one who believes in me does not believe in me only, but also in the one who sent me.

 45  The one who sees me sees the one who sent me.

 46  I've come into the world as light, so that everyone who believes in me won't remain in the darkness.

 47  If anyone hears my words and doesn't keep them, I don't condemn him, because I didn't come to condemn the world, but to save it.

 48  The one who rejects me and doesn't receive my words has something to judge him: The word that I've spoken will judge him on the last day,

 49  because I haven't spoken on my own authority. Instead, the Father who sent me has himself commanded me what to say and how to speak.

 50  And I know that what he commands brings eternal life. What I speak, therefore, I speak just as the Father has told me."

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Gospel of John 11
The Death of Lazarus

 1  Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

 2  Mary was the woman who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair. Her brother Lazarus was the one who was ill.

 3  So the sisters sent word to Jesus and told him, "Lord, the one whom you love is ill."

 4  But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This illness isn't meant to end in death. It's for God's glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

 5  Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

 6  Yet, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed where he was for two more days.

 7  After this, he told the disciples, "Let's go back to Judea."

 8  The disciples told him, "Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death, and you are going back there again?"

 9  Jesus replied, "There are twelve hours in the day, aren't there? If anyone walks during the day he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

 10  But if anyone walks at night he stumbles, because the light is not in him."

 11  These were the things he said. Then after this, he told them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I'm leaving to wake him up."

 12  So the disciples told him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well."

 13  Jesus, however, had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was speaking about resting or sleeping.

 14  Then Jesus told them plainly, "Lazarus has died.

 15  For your sake I'm glad that I wasn't there, so that you may believe. But let's go to him."

 16  Then Thomas, who was called the Twin, told his fellow disciples, "Let's go, too, so that we may die with him!"

Jesus the Resurrection and the Life
 17  When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days.

 18  Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away,

 19  and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their brother.

 20  As soon as Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary stayed at home.

 21  Martha told Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

 22  But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, he will give it to you."

 23  Jesus told her, "Your brother will rise again."

 24  Martha told him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day."

 25  Jesus told her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The person who believes in me, even though he dies, will live.

 26  Indeed, everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe that?"

 27  "Yes, Lord," she told him. "I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who was to come into the world."

 28  When she had said this, she went away and called her sister Mary and told her privately, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you!"

 29  As soon as Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.

 30  Now Jesus had not yet arrived at the village but was still at the place where Martha had met him.

 31  When the Jewish leaders who had been with her, consoling her in the house, saw Mary get up quickly and go out, they followed her, thinking that she had gone to the tomb to cry there.

 32  As soon as Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet and told him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother wouldn't have died."

 33  When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, he was greatly troubled in spirit and deeply moved.

 34  He asked, "Where have you put him?" They told him, "Lord, come and see."

 35  Jesus burst into tears.

 36  So the Jewish leaders said, "See how much he loved him!"

 37  But some of them said, "Surely the one who opened the eyes of the blind man could have kept this man from dying, couldn't he?"

Jesus Brings Lazarus Back to Life
 38  Groaning deeply again, Jesus came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying in front of it.

 39  Jesus said, "Remove the stone." Martha, the dead man's sister, told him, "Lord, there must be a stench by now, because he's been dead for four days."

 40  Jesus told her, "I told you that if you believed you would see God's glory, didn't I?"

 41  So they removed the stone. Then Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you for hearing me.

 42  I know that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me."

 43  After saying this, he shouted with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

 44  The man who had died came out, his hands and feet tied with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a handkerchief. Jesus told them, "Untie him, and let him go."

The Jewish Council Plans to Kill Jesus
 45  Many of the Jews who had come with Mary and who had observed what Jesus did believed in him.

 46  Some of them, however, went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

 47  So the high priests and the Pharisees assembled the Council and said, "What are we going to do? This man is performing many signs.

 48  If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our Temple and our nation."

 49  But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, told them, "You don't know anything!

 50  You don't realize that it is better for you to have one man die for the people than to have the whole nation destroyed."

 51  Now he did not say this on his own initiative. As high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

 52  and not only for the nation, but that he would also gather into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.

 53  So from that day on they resolved to put him to death.

 54  As a result, Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews. Instead, he went from there to a town called Ephraim in the region near the wilderness. There he remained with his disciples.

 55  Now the Jewish Passover was approaching, and before the Passover many people from the countryside went up to Jerusalem to purify themselves.

 56  They kept looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the Temple, "What do you think? Surely he won't come to the festival, will he?"

 57  Now the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that whoever knew where he was should tell them so that they could arrest him.

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Gospel of John 10
The Illustration of the Sheepfold
 1  "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the person who doesn't enter the sheepfold through the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a bandit.

 2  The one who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.

 3  It's to him the gatekeeper opens the gate, and it's his voice the sheep hear. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

 4  When he has driven out all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

 5  They'll never follow a stranger, but will run away from him because they don't recognize the voice of strangers."

 6  Jesus used this illustration with them, but they didn't understand what he was saying to them.

Jesus the Good Shepherd
 7  So again Jesus said, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, I'm the gate for the sheep.

 8  All who came before me are thieves and bandits, but the sheep didn't listen to them.

 9  I'm the gate. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved. He'll come in and go out and find pasture.

 10  The thief comes only to steal, slaughter, and destroy. I've come that they may have life, and have it abundantly.

 11  "I'm the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

 12  The hired worker, who isn't the shepherd and doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, deserts the sheep, and runs away. So the wolf snatches them and scatters them,

 13  because he's a hired worker, and the sheep don't matter to him.

 14  I'm the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me,

 15  just as the Father knows me and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for the sheep.

 16  I have other sheep that don't belong to this fold. I must lead these also, and they'll listen to my voice. So there will be one flock and one shepherd.

 17  This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it back again.

 18  No one is taking it from me; I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This is what my Father has commanded me."

 19  Once again there was a division among the Jews because of what Jesus had been saying.

 20  Many of them were saying, "He has a demon and is insane. Why bother listening to him?"

 21  Others were saying, "These are not the words of a man who is demon-possessed. A demon cannot open the eyes of the blind, can it?"

Jesus is Rejected by the Jews
 22  Now Hanukkah was taking place in Jerusalem. It was winter,

 23  and Jesus was walking around in the Temple inside the open porch of Solomon.

 24  So the Jewish leaders surrounded him and quizzed him, "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you're the Messiah, tell us so plainly."

 25  Jesus answered them, "I have told you, but you don't believe it. The actions that I do in my Father's name testify on my behalf,

 26  but you don't believe, because you don't belong to my sheep.

 27  My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me.

 28  I give them eternal life, they'll never be lost, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

 29  What my Father has given me is more important than anything, and no one can snatch it from the Father's hand.

 30  I and the Father are one."

 31  Again the Jewish leaders picked up stones to stone him to death.

 32  Jesus replied to them, "I've shown you many good actions from my Father. For which of them are you going to stone me?"

 33  The Jewish leaders answered him, "We are not going to stone you for a good action, but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, are making yourself God!"

 34  Jesus replied to them, "Is it not written in your Law, 'I said, "You are gods"'?

 35  If he called those to whom a message from God came 'gods' (and the Scripture cannot be disregarded),

 36  how can you say to the one whom the Father has consecrated and sent into the world, 'You're blaspheming,' because I said, 'I'm the Son of God'?

 37  If I'm not doing my Father's actions, don't believe me.

 38  But if I'm doing them, even though you don't believe me, believe the actions, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."

 39  Again they tried to seize him, but he slipped away from them.

 40  Then he went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and he remained there.

 41  Many people came to him and kept saying, "John never performed a sign, but everything that John said about this man is true!"

 42  And many believed in Jesus there.

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Gospel of John 9
Jesus Heals a Blind Man

 1  As he was walking along, he observed a man who had been blind from birth.

 2  His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that caused him to be born blind?"

 3  Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned. This happened so that God's work might be revealed in him.

 4  I must do the work of the one who sent me while it is day. Night is approaching, when no one can work.

 5  As long as I'm in the world, I'm the light of the world."

 6  After saying this, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he spread the mud on the man's eyes

 7  and told him, "Go and wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated "Sent One"). So he went off, washed, and came back seeing.

 8  Then the neighbors and those who had previously seen him as a beggar said, "This is the man who used to sit and beg, isn't it?"

 9  Some were saying, "It's him," while others were saying, "No, but it's someone like him." But he himself kept saying, "It's me!"

 10  So they asked him, "How, then, did you gain your eyesight?"

 11  He said, "The man named Jesus made some mud, spread it on my eyes, and told me, 'Go to Siloam and wash.' So off I went and washed, and I received my sight."

 12  They asked him, "Where is that man?" He said, "I don't know!"

The Pharisees Investigate the Healing
 13  So they brought to the Pharisees the man who had once been blind.

 14  Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and healed his eyes.

 15  So the Pharisees also began to ask him how he had gained his sight. He told them, "He put mud on my eyes, then I washed, and now I can see."

 16  Some of the Pharisees began to remark, "This man is not from God because he does not keep the Sabbath." But others were saying, "How can a sinful man perform such signs?" And there was a division among them.

 17  So they asked the formerly blind man again, "What do you say about him, since it was your eyes he healed?" He said, "He is a prophet."

 18  The Jewish leaders did not believe that the man had been blind and had gained sight until they summoned his parents

 19  and asked them, "Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? How does he now see?"

 20  His parents replied, "We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.

 21  But we don't know how it is that he now sees, and we don't know who opened his eyes. Ask him. He is of age and can speak for himself."

 22  His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, since the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be thrown out of the synagogue.

 23  That's why his parents said, "He is of age. Ask him."

 24  The Jewish leaders summoned the man who had been blind a second time and told him, "Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner."

 25  But he responded, "I don't know whether he is a sinner or not. The one thing I do know is that I used to be blind and now I can see!"

 26  Then they asked him, "What did he do to you? How did he heal your eyes?"

 27  He answered them, "I've already told you, but you didn't listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don't want to become his disciples, too, do you?"

 28  At this, they turned on him in fury and said, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses!

 29  We know that God has spoken to Moses, but we do not know where this fellow comes from."

 30  The man answered them, "This is an amazing thing! You don't know where he comes from, yet he healed my eyes.

 31  We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but he does listen to anyone who worships him and does his will.

 32  Ever since creation it has never been heard that anyone healed the eyes of a man who was born blind.

 33  If this man were not from God, he couldn't do anything like that."

 34  They asked him, "You were born a sinner and you are trying to instruct us?" And they threw him out.

Spiritual Blindness
 35  Jesus heard that they had thrown him out. So when he found him, he asked him, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

 36  He answered, "And who is he, sir? Tell me, so that I may believe in him."

 37  Jesus told him, "You have seen him. He is the person who is talking with you."

 38  He said, "Lord, I do believe," and worshipped him.

 39  Then Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge it, so that those who are blind may see and so that those who see may become blind."

 40  Some of the Pharisees who were near him overheard this and asked him, "We aren't blind, too, are we?"

 41  Jesus told them, "If you were blind, you would not have any sin. But now that you insist, 'We see,' your sin still exists."

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Gospel of John 8
The Woman Caught in Adultery
 1  Jesus, however, went to the Mount of Olives.

 2  At daybreak he appeared again in the Temple, and all the people came to him. So he sat down and began to teach them.

 3  But the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery. After setting her before them,

 4  they told him, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in the very act of adultery.

 5  Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women to death. What do you say?"

 6  They said this to test him, so that they might have a charge against him. But Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger.

 7  When they persisted in questioning him, he straightened up and told them, "Let the person among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her."

 8  Then he bent down again and continued writing on the ground.

 9  When they heard this, they went away one by one, beginning with the oldest, and he was left alone with the woman standing there.

 10  Then Jesus stood up and asked her, "Dear lady, where are your accusers? Hasn't anyone condemned you?"

 11  "No one, sir," she replied. Then Jesus said, "I don't condemn you, either. Go home, and from now on don't sin anymore."

Jesus the Light of the World
 12  Later on, Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world. The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

 13  The Pharisees told him, "You're testifying about yourself. Your testimony isn't valid."

 14  Jesus answered them, "Even though I'm testifying about myself, my testimony is valid because I know where I've come from and where I'm going. But you don't know where I come from or where I'm going.

 15  You're judging by human standards, but I'm not judging anyone.

 16  Yet even if I should judge, my judgment would be valid, because it is not I alone who judges, but I and the one who sent me.

 17  In your own Law it is written that the testimony of two people is valid.

 18  I'm testifying about myself, and the Father who sent me is testifying about me."

 19  Then they asked him, "Where is this Father of yours?" Jesus replied, "You don't know me or my Father. If you had known me, you would've known my Father, too."

 20  He spoke these words in the treasury, while he was teaching in the Temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

The One from Above
 21  Later on, he told them again, "I'm going away, and you'll look for me, but you will die in your sin. You cannot come where I'm going."

 22  So the Jewish leaders were asking, "He isn't going to kill himself, is he? Is that why he said, 'You cannot come where I'm going'?"

 23  He told them, "You are from below, I'm from above. You are of this world, but I'm not of this world.

 24  That is why I told you that you will die in your sins, for unless you believe that I AM, you'll die in your sins."

 25  Then they asked him, "Who are you?" Jesus told them, "What have I been telling you all along?

 26  I have much to say about you and to condemn you for. But the one who sent me is truthful, and what I've heard from him I declare to the world."

 27  They didn't realize that he was talking to them about the Father.

 28  So Jesus told them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I AM, and that I do nothing on my own authority. Instead, I speak only what the Father has taught me.

 29  Moreover, the one who sent me is with me. He has never left me alone, because I always do what pleases him."

 30  While he was saying these things, many believed in him.

Freedom and Slavery
 31  So Jesus told those Jews who had believed in him, "If you continue in my word, you are really my disciples.

 32  And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

 33  They replied to him, "We are Abraham's descendants and have never been slaves to anybody. So how can you say, 'You will be set free'?"

 34  Jesus answered them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, that everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.

 35  The slave does not remain in the household forever, but the son does remain forever.

 36  So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed!"

The Real Children of Abraham
 37  "I know that you are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are trying to kill me because you've not received what I've told you.

 38  I declare what I've seen in my Father's presence, and you're doing what you've heard from your father."

 39  They replied to him, "Our father is Abraham!" Jesus told them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing what Abraham did.

 40  But now you're trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham would'nt have done that.

 41  You are doing your father's actions." They told him, "We're not illegitimate children. We have one Father, God himself."

 42  Jesus told them, "If God were your Father, you would've loved me, because I came from God and am here. I haven't come on my own accord, but he sent me.

 43  Why don't you understand what I've said? It's because you can't listen to my words.

 44  You belong to your father the devil, and you want to carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and has never stood for truth, since there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

 45  But it is because I speak the truth that you don't believe me.

 46  Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I'm telling the truth, why don't you believe me?

 47  The one who belongs to God listens to the words of God. The reason you don't listen is because you don't belong to God."

Jesus is Superior to Abraham
 48  The Jewish leaders replied to him, "Surely we're right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon, aren't we?"

 49  Jesus answered, "I don't have a demon. On the contrary, I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.

 50  I don't seek my own glory. There is one who seeks it, and he is the Judge.

 51  Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death."

 52  Then the Jewish leaders told him, "Now we really know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and so did the prophets, but you say, 'If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.'

 53  You aren't greater than our father Abraham, who died, are you? The prophets also died. Who are you making yourself out to be?"

 54  Jesus answered, "If I were trying to glorify myself, my glory would mean nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, 'He is our God.'

 55  You don't know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I don't know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him and keep his word.

 56  Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day, and he saw it and was glad."

 57  Then the Jewish leaders asked him, "You are not even 50 years old, yet you have seen Abraham?"

 58  Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, before there was an Abraham, I AM!"

 59  At this, they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the Temple.

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John 7
The Unbelief of Jesus' Brothers
 1  After this, Jesus traveled throughout Galilee, because he didn't want to travel in Judea, since the Jewish leaders there were trying to kill him.

 2  Now the Jewish Festival of Tents was approaching.

 3  So his brothers told him, "You should leave this place and go to Judea, so that your disciples can see the actions that you're doing,

 4  since no one acts in secret if he wants to be known publicly. If you're going to do these things, you should reveal yourself to the world!"

 5  Not even his brothers believed in him.

 6  Jesus told them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.

 7  The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its actions are evil.

 8  Go up to the festival yourselves. I am not going to this festival yet, because my time hasn't fully come yet."

 9  After saying this, he remained in Galilee.

Jesus Arrives in Jerusalem
 10  But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, he went up himself, not openly but, as it were, in secret.

 11  The Jewish leaders kept looking for him at the festival, asking, "Where is that man?"

 12  And there was a great deal of discussion about him among the crowds. Some were saying, "He is a good man," while others were saying, "No, he is deceiving the crowds!"

 13  Nevertheless, no one would speak openly about him because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders.

Jesus Openly Declares His Authority
 14  Halfway through the festival, Jesus went up to the Temple and began teaching.

 15  The Jewish leaders were astonished and remarked, "How can this man be so educated when he has never gone to school?"

 16  Jesus replied to them, "My teaching is not mine but comes from the one who sent me.

 17  If anyone wants to do his will, he'll know whether this teaching is from God or whether I'm speaking on my own.

 18  The one who speaks on his own seeks his own praise. But the one who seeks the praise of him who sent him is genuine, and there's nothing false in him.

 19  Moses gave you the Law, didn't he? Yet none of you is keeping the Law. Why are you trying to kill me?"

 20  The crowd answered, "You have a demon! Who is trying to kill you?"

 21  Jesus answered them, "I performed one action, and all of you are astonished.

 22  Moses gave you circumcision—not that it is from Moses, but from the Patriarchs—and so you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

 23  If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the Law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a man perfectly well on the Sabbath?

 24  Stop judging by appearances, but judge with righteous judgment!"

Is This the Messiah?
 25  Then some of the people of Jerusalem began saying, "This is the man they are trying to kill, isn't it?

 26  And look, he is speaking in public, and they are not saying anything to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Messiah?

 27  We know where this man comes from. But when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he comes from."

 28  At this point Jesus, still teaching in the Temple, shouted, "So you know me and know where I've come from? I haven't come on my own accord. But the one who sent me is true, and he's the one you don't know.

 29  I know him because I've come from him, and he sent me."

 30  Then the Jewish leaders tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come.

 31  However, many in the crowd believed in him. They kept saying, "When the Messiah comes, he won't do more signs than this man has done, will he?"

Officers are Sent to Arrest Jesus
 32  The Pharisees heard the crowd debating these things about him, so the high priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest Jesus.

 33  Then Jesus said, "I'll be with you only a little while longer, and then I'm going back to the one who sent me.

 34  You'll look for me but won't find me. And where I am, you cannot come."

 35  Then the Jewish leaders asked one another, "Where does this man intend to go that we won't be able to find him? Surely he's not going to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?

 36  What does this statement mean that he said, 'You'll look for me but won't find me,' and, 'Where I am, you cannot come'?"

Rivers of Living Water
 37  On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and shouted, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

 38  The one who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, will have rivers of living water flowing from his heart."

 39  Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who were believing in him were to receive, because the Spirit was not yet present and Jesus had not yet been glorified.

Division among the People
 40  When they heard these words, some in the crowd were saying, "This really is the Prophet,"

 41  while others were saying, "This is the Messiah!" But some were saying, "The Messiah doesn't come from Galilee, does he?

 42  Doesn't the Scripture say that the Messiah is from David's family and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?"

 43  So there was a division in the crowd because of him.

 44  Some of them were wanting to seize him, but no one laid hands on him.

The Unbelief of the Authorities
 45  Then the officers returned to the high priests and Pharisees, who asked them, "Why didn't you bring him?"

 46  The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like that!"

 47  Then the Pharisees replied to them, "You haven't been deceived, too, have you?

 48  None of the authorities or Pharisees has believed in him, have they?

 49  But this mob that does not know the Law—they're under a curse!"

 50  One of their own, Nicodemus (the man who had previously met with Jesus), asked them,

 51  "Surely our Law does not condemn a person without first hearing from him and finding out what he is doing, does it?"

 52  They answered him, "You aren't from Galilee, too, are you? Search and see that no prophet comes from Galilee."

 53  Then all of them went to their own homes.

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Gospel of John 6
Jesus Feeds More than Five Thousand
 1  After this, Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (that is, to Tiberias).

 2  A large crowd kept following him because they had seen the signs that he was performing by healing the sick.

 3  But Jesus went up on a hillside and sat down there with his disciples.

 4  Now the Passover, the festival of the Jews, was near.

 5  When Jesus looked up and saw that a large crowd was coming toward him, he asked Philip, "Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?"

 6  Jesus said this to test him, because he himself knew what he was going to do.

 7  Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread isn't enough for each of them to have a little."

 8  One of his disciples, Andrew, who was Simon Peter's brother, told him,

 9  "There's a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two small fish. But what are these among so many people?"

 10  Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was plenty of grass in that area, so they sat down, numbering about 5,000 men.

 11  Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed them to those who were seated. He also distributed as much fish as they wanted.

 12  When they were completely satisfied, Jesus told his disciples, "Collect the pieces that are left over so that nothing is wasted."

 13  So they collected and filled twelve baskets full of pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.

 14  When the people saw the sign that he had done, they kept saying, "Truly this is the Prophet who was to come into the world!"

 15  Then Jesus, realizing that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, withdrew again to the hillside by himself.

Jesus Walks on the Sea
 16  When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea,

 17  got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. Darkness had already fallen, and Jesus had not yet come to them.

 18  A strong wind was blowing, and the sea was getting rough.

 19  After they had rowed about 25 or 30 stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea toward their boat. They became terrified.

 20  But he told them, "It is I. Stop being afraid!"

 21  So they were glad to take him on board, and immediately the boat reached the land toward which they were going.

Jesus the Bread of Life
 22  The next day, the crowd that had remained on the other side of the sea noticed that only one boat had been there, and no other, and that Jesus had not gotten into that boat with his disciples. Instead, his disciples had gone away by themselves.

 23  Other small boats from Tiberias arrived near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

 24  When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into these boats and went to Capernaum to look for Jesus.

 25  When they had found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"

 26  Jesus replied to them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate the loaves and were completely satisfied.

 27  Do not work for food that perishes but for food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set his seal on him."

 28  Then they asked him, "What must we do to perform God's works?"

 29  Jesus answered them, "This is God's work: to believe in the one whom he has sent."

 30  So they asked him, "What sign are you going to do so that we may see it and believe in you? What actions are you performing?

 31  Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"

 32  Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

 33  The bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

 34  Then they told him, "Sir, give us this bread all the time."

 35  Jesus told them, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never become hungry, and whoever believes in me will never become thirsty.

 36  I told you that you have seen me, yet you don't believe.

 37  Everything the Father gives me will come to me, and I'll never turn away the one who comes to me.

 38  I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.

 39  And this is the will of the one who sent me, that I should not lose anything that he has given me, but should raise it to life on the last day.

 40  This is my Father's will: That everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him to life on the last day."

 41  Then the Jewish leaders began grumbling about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven."

 42  They kept saying, "This is Jesus, the son of Joseph, isn't it, whose father and mother we know? So how can he say, 'I have come down from heaven'?"

 43  Jesus answered them, "Stop grumbling among yourselves.

 44  No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him to life on the last day.

 45  It is written in the Prophets, 'And all of them will be taught by God.' Everyone who has listened to the Father and has learned anything comes to me.

 46  Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who comes from God. This one has seen the Father.

 47  Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the one who believes in me has eternal life.

 48  I'm the bread of life.

 49  Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness and died.

 50  This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that a person may eat it and not die.

 51  I'm the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he'll live forever. And the bread I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

 52  Then the Jewish leaders debated angrily with each other, asking, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

 53  So Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.

 54  Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I'll raise him to life on the last day,

 55  because my flesh is real food, and my blood is real drink.

 56  The person who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.

 57  Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will also live because of me.

 58  This is the bread that came down from heaven, not the kind that your ancestors ate. They died, but the one who eats this bread will live forever."

 59  He said this while teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum.

The Words of Eternal Life
 60  When many of his disciples heard this, they said, "This is a difficult statement. Who can accept it?"

 61  But Jesus, knowing within himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, asked them, "Does this offend you?

 62  What if you saw the Son of Man going up to the place where he was before?

 63  It's the Spirit who gives life; the flesh accomplishes nothing. The words that I've spoken to you are spirit and life.

 64  But there are some among you who don't believe..."—because Jesus knew from the beginning those who weren't believing, as well as the one who would betray him.

 65  So he said, "That's why I told you that no one can come to me unless it be granted him by the Father."

 66  As a result, many of his disciples turned back and no longer associated with him.

 67  So Jesus asked the Twelve, "You don't want to leave, too, do you?"

 68  Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

 69  Besides, we have believed and remain convinced that you are the Holy One of God."

 70  Jesus answered them, "I chose you, the Twelve, didn't I? Yet one of you is a devil."

 71  Now he was speaking about Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, because this man was going to betray him, even though he was one of the Twelve.

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Gospel of John 5
The Healing at the Pool
 1  Later on, there was another festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

 2  Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem is a pool called Bethesda in Hebrew. It has five colonnades,

 3  and under these a large number of sick people were lying—blind, lame, or paralyzed—waiting for the movement of the water.

 4  At certain times an angel of the Lord would go down into the pool and stir up the water, and whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had.

 5  One particular man was there who had been ill for 38 years.

 6  When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"

 7  The sick man answered him, "Sir, I don't have anyone to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I'm trying to get there, someone else steps down ahead of me."

 8  Jesus told him, "Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!"

 9  The man immediately became well, and he picked up his mat and started walking. Now that day was a Sabbath.

 10  So the Jewish leaders told the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.

 11  But he answered them, "The man who made me well told me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.'"

 12  They asked him, "Who is the man who told you, 'Pick it up and walk'?"

 13  But the one who had been healed did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away from the crowd in that place.

 14  Later on, Jesus found him in the Temple and told him, "Look! You have become well. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you."

 15  The man went off and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.

 16  So the Jewish leaders began persecuting Jesus, because he kept doing such things on the Sabbath.

 17  But Jesus answered them, "My Father has been working until now, and I, too, am working."

 18  So the Jewish leaders were trying all the harder to kill him, because he was not only breaking the Sabbath but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.

The Authority of the Son
 19  Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the Son can do nothing on his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing, What the Father does, the Son does likewise.

 20  The Father loves the Son and shows him everything he is doing, and he will show him even greater actions than these, so that you may be amazed.

 21  Just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to those he chooses.

 22  The Father judges no one, but has given all authority to judge to the Son,

 23  so that everyone may honor the Son as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

 24  "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, whoever hears what I say and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged, but has passed from death to life.

 25  Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the time approaches, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will live.

 26  Just as the Father has life in himself, so also he has granted the Son to have life in himself,

 27  and he has given him authority to judge, because he is the Son of Man.

 28  Don't be amazed at this, because the time is approaching when everyone in their graves will hear the Son of Man's voice

 29  and will come out—those who have done what is good to the resurrection that leads to life, and those who have practiced what is evil to the resurrection that ends in condemnation.

 30  I can do nothing on my own accord. I judge according to what I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me."

Jesus' Greater Testimony
 31  "If I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is not trustworthy.

 32  There is another who testifies about me, and I know that the testimony he gives about me is true.

 33  You have sent messengers to John, and he has testified to the truth.

 34  I myself do not accept human testimony, but I am saying these things so that you may be saved.

 35  That man John was a lamp that burns and brightly shines, and for a while you were willing to rejoice in his light.

 36  "But I have a greater testimony than John's, because the actions that the Father has given me to complete—the very actions that I am doing—testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me.

 37  Moreover, the Father who sent me has himself testified on my behalf. You have never heard his voice or seen what he looks like,

 38  nor do you have his word at work in you, because you do not believe in the one whom he sent.

 39  You examine the Scriptures carefully because you suppose that in them you have eternal life. Yet they testify about me.

 40  But you are not willing to come to me to have life.

 41  "I do not accept human praise.

 42  I know that you do not have the love of God in you.

 43  I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me. Yet if another man comes in his own name, you will accept him.

 44  How can you believe when you accept each other's praise and do not look for the praise that comes from the only God?

 45  Do not suppose that I will be the one to accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom you have set your hope,

 46  because if you believed Moses, you would believe me, since he wrote about me.

 47  But if you do not believe what he wrote, how will you believe my words?"

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Gospel of John 4
Jesus Meets a Samaritan Woman
 1  Now when Jesus realized that the Pharisees had heard he was making and baptizing more disciples than John—

 2  although it was not Jesus who did the baptizing but his disciples—

 3  he left Judea and went back to Galilee.

 4  Now it was necessary for him to go through Samaria.

 5  So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

 6  Jacob's Well was also there, and Jesus, tired out by the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

 7  A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus told her, "Please give me a drink,"

 8  since his disciples had gone off into town to buy food.

 9  The Samaritan woman asked him, "How can you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" Because Jews do not have anything to do with Samaritans.

 10  Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, 'Please give me a drink,' you would have been the one to ask him, and he would have given you living water."

 11  The woman told him, "Sir, you don't have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where are you going to get this living water?

 12  You're not greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it, along with his sons and his flocks, are you?"

 13  Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks this water will become thirsty again.

 14  But whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never become thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become a well of water for him, springing up to eternal life."

 15  The woman told him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I won't get thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water."

 16  He told her, "Go and call your husband, and come back here."

 17  The woman answered him, "I don't have a husband." Jesus told her, "You are quite right in saying, 'I don't have a husband,'

 18  because you have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true."

 19  The woman told him, "Sir, I see that you are a prophet!

 20  Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain. But you Jews say that the place where people should worship is in Jerusalem."

 21  Jesus told her, "Believe me, dear lady, the hour is coming when you Samaritans will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

 22  You don't know what you're worshiping. We Jews know what we're worshiping, because salvation comes from the Jews.

 23  Yet the time is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Indeed, the Father is looking for people like that to worship him.

 24  God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

 25  The woman told him, "I know that the Anointed One is coming, who is being called 'the Messiah'. When that person comes, he will explain everything."

 26  "I am he," Jesus replied, "the one who is speaking to you."

 27  At this point his disciples arrived, and they were astonished that he was talking to a woman. Yet no one said, "What do you want from her?" or, "Why are you talking to her?"

 28  Then the woman left her water jar and went back to town. She told people,

 29  "Come, see a man who told me everything I've ever done! Could he possibly be the Messiah?"

 30  The people left the town and started on their way to him.

 31  Meanwhile, the disciples were urging him, "Rabbi, have something to eat."

 32  But he told them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about."

 33  So the disciples began to say to one another, "No one has brought him anything to eat, have they?"

 34  Jesus told them, "My food is doing the will of the one who sent me and completing his work.

 35  You say, don't you, 'In four more months the harvest will begin?' Look, I tell you, open your eyes and observe that the fields are ready for harvesting now!

 36  The one who harvests is already receiving his wages and gathering a crop for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who harvests may rejoice together.

 37  In this respect the saying is true: 'One person sows, and another person harvests.'

 38  I have sent you to harvest what you have not worked for. Others have worked, and you have adopted their work as your own."

 39  Now many of the Samaritans of that town believed in Jesus because the woman had testified, "He told me everything I've ever done."

 40  So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there for two days.

 41  And many more believed because of what he said.

 42  They kept telling the woman, "It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, because now we have heard him ourselves, and we know that he really is the Savior of the world."

Jesus Heals an Official's Son
 43  Two days later, Jesus left for Galilee from there,

 44  since Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

 45  When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen everything that he had done in Jerusalem during the festival and because they, too, had gone to the festival.

 46  So Jesus returned to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. Meanwhile, in Capernaum there was a government official whose son was ill.

 47  When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him repeatedly to come down and heal his son, because he was about to die.

 48  Jesus told him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe."

 49  The official told him, "Sir, please come down before my little boy dies."

 50  Jesus told him, "Go home. Your son will live." The man believed what Jesus told him and started back home.

 51  While he was on his way, his servants met him and told him that his child was alive.

 52  So he asked them at what hour he had begun to recover, and they told him, "The fever left him yesterday at one o'clock in the afternoon."

 53  Then the father realized that this was the very hour when Jesus had told him, "Your son will live." So he himself believed, along with his whole family.

 54  Now this was the second sign that Jesus did after coming from Judea to Galilee.

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Gospel of John 3
Jesus Talks with Nicodemus
 1  Now there was a man from the Pharisees, a leader of the Jews, whose name was Nicodemus.

 2  He came to Jesus at night and told him, "Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher, because no one can perform these signs that you are doing unless God is with him."

 3  Jesus replied to him, "Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born from above he cannot see the kingdom of God."

 4  Nicodemus asked him, "How can a person be born when he is old? He can't go back into his mother's womb a second time and be born, can he?"

 5  Jesus answered, "Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born of water and Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

 6  What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

 7  Don't be astonished that I told you, 'All of you must be born from above.'

 8  The wind blows where it wants to. You hear its sound, but you don't know where it comes from or where it is going. That's the way it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

 9  Nicodemus asked him, "How can that be?"

 10  Jesus answered him, "You're the teacher of Israel, and you can't understand this?

 11  Truly, I tell you emphatically, we know what we're talking about, and we testify about what we've seen. Yet you people do not accept our testimony.

 12  If I have told you people about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?

 13  "No one has gone up to heaven except the one who came down from heaven, the Son of Man who is in heaven.

 14  Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

 15  so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.

 16  "For this is how God loved the world: He gave his unique Son so that everyone who believes in him might not be lost but have eternal life.

 17  Because God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.

 18  Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God's unique Son.

 19  And this is the basis for judgment: The light has come into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light because their actions were evil.

 20  Everyone who practices wickedness hates the light and does not come to the light, so that his actions may not be exposed.

 21  But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may become evident that his actions have God's approval."

John the Baptist Talks about Jesus
 22  After this, Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside. He spent some time there with them and began baptizing.

 23  John was also baptizing in Aenon, near Salim, because there was plenty of water there. People kept coming and were being baptized,

 24  since John had not yet been thrown into prison.

 25  Then a controversy about ritual purification sprang up between a certain Jew and John's disciples,

 26  so they went to John and told him, "Rabbi, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, the one about whom you testified—look, he's baptizing, and everyone is going to him!"

 27  John replied, "No one can receive anything unless it has been given to them from heaven.

 28  You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, 'I am not the Messiah, but I have been sent ahead of him.'

 29  It is the bridegroom who gets the bride, yet the bridegroom's friend, who merely stands by and listens for him, is overjoyed to hear the bridegroom's voice. That's why this joy of mine is now complete.

 30  He must become more important, but I must become less important."

The One who Comes from Above
 31  The one who comes from above is superior to everything. The one who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things. The one who comes from heaven is superior to everything.

 32  He testifies about what he has seen and heard, yet no one accepts his testimony.

 33  The person who has accepted his testimony has acknowledged that God is truthful.

 34  The one whom God sent speaks the words of God, because God does not give the Spirit in limited measure to him.

 35  The Father loves the Son and has put everything in his hands.

 36  The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who disobeys the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.

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Gospel of John 2
Jesus Changes Water into Wine
 1  On the third day of that week there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus' mother was there,

 2  and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.

 3  When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother told him, "They don't have any more wine."

 4  "How does that concern us, dear lady?" Jesus asked her. "My time hasn't come yet."

 5  His mother told the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."

 6  Now standing there were six stone water jars used for the Jewish rites of purification, each one holding from two to three measures.

 7  Jesus told the servants, "Fill the jars with water." So they filled them up to the brim.

 8  Then he told them, "Now draw some out and take it to the man in charge of the banquet." So they did.

 9  When the man in charge of the banquet tasted the water that had become wine (without knowing where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called for the bridegroom

 10  and told him, "Everyone serves the best wine first, and the cheap kind when people are drunk. But you have kept the best wine until now!"

 11  Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee. He revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

 12  After this, Jesus went down to Capernaum—he, his mother, his brothers, and his disciples—and they remained there for a few days.

Confrontation in the Temple over Money
 13  The Jewish Passover was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

 14  In the Temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, as well as moneychangers sitting at their tables.

 15  After making a whip out of cords, he drove all of them out of the Temple, including the sheep and the cattle. He scattered the coins of the moneychangers and knocked over their tables.

 16  Then he told those who were selling the doves, "Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father's house a marketplace!"

 17  His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will consume me."

 18  Then the Jewish leaders asked him, "What sign can you show us as authority for doing these things?"

 19  Jesus answered them, "Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will rebuild it."

 20  The Jewish leaders said, "This sanctuary has been under construction for 46 years, and you're going to rebuild it in three days?"

 21  But the sanctuary he was speaking about was his own body.

 22  After he had been raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this. So they believed the Scripture and the statement that Jesus had made.

Jesus Knows All People
 23  While Jesus was in Jerusalem for the Passover Festival, many people believed in him because they saw the signs that he was doing.

 24  Jesus, however, did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people

 25  and didn't need anyone to tell him what people were like, because he himself knew what was in every person.

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John 1
The Word and Creation
 1  In the beginning, the Word existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God.

 2  He existed in the beginning with God.

 3  Through him all things were made, and apart from him nothing was made that has been made.

 4  In him was life, and that life brought light to humanity.

 5  And the light shines on in the darkness, and the darkness has never put it out.

John's Witness to the Word
 6  There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

 7  He came as a witness to testify about the light, so that all might believe because of him.

 8  John was not the light, but he came to testify about the light.

 9  This was the true light that enlightens every person by his coming into the world.

 10  He was in the world, and the world was made through him. Yet the world did not recognize him.

Responses to the Word
 11  He came to his own creation, yet his own people did not receive him.

 12  However, to all who received him, those believing in his name, he gave authority to become God's children,

 13  who were born, not merely in a genetic sense, nor from lust, nor from man's desire, but from the will of God.

The Word Becomes Human
 14  The Word became flesh and lived among us. We gazed on his glory, the kind of glory that belongs to the Father's unique Son, who is full of grace and truth.

 15  John told the truth about him when he cried out, "This is the person about whom I said, 'The one who comes after me ranks higher than me, because he existed before me.'"

 16  We have all received one gracious gift after another from his abundance,

 17  because while the Law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus the Messiah.

 18  No one has ever seen God. The unique God, who is close to the Father's side, has revealed him.

The Testimony of John the Baptist
 19  This was John's testimony when the Jewish leaders sent priests and descendants of Levi to him from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

 20  He spoke openly and, remaining true to himself, admitted, "I am not the Messiah."

 21  So they asked him, "Well then, are you Elijah?" John said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No."

 22  "Who are you?" they asked him. "We must give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

 23  He replied, "I am '...a voice crying out in the wilderness, "Prepare the Lord's highway,"' as the prophet Isaiah said."

 24  Now those men had been sent from the Pharisees.

 25  They asked him, "Why, then, are you baptizing if you are not the Messiah, or Elijah, or the Prophet?"

 26  John answered them, "I am baptizing with water, but among you stands a man whom you do not know,

 27  the one who is coming after me, whose sandal straps I am not worthy to untie."

 28  This happened in Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

 29  The next day, John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

 30  This is the one about whom I said, 'After me comes a man who ranks above me, because he existed before me.'

 31  I didn't recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he might be revealed to Israel."

 32  John also testified, "I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him.

 33  I didn't recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, 'The person on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

 34  I have seen this and have testified that this is the Son of God."

The First Disciples
 35  The next day, John was standing there again with two of his disciples.

 36  As he watched Jesus walk by, he said, "Look, the Lamb of God!"

 37  When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.

 38  But when Jesus turned around and saw them following, he asked them, "What are you looking for?" They asked him, "Rabbi," (which is translated "Teacher"), "where are you staying?"

 39  He told them, "Come and see!" So they went and saw where he was staying, and they remained with him that day. It was about four o'clock in the afternoon.

 40  Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two who heard John and followed Jesus.

 41  The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and say to him, "We have found the Anointed One!" (which is translated "Messiah").

 42  He led Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him intently and said, "You are Simon, John's son. You will be called Cephas!" (which is translated "Peter").

Jesus Calls Philip and Nathaniel
 43  The next day, Jesus decided to go away to Galilee, where he found Philip and told him, "Follow me."

 44  Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the hometown of Andrew and Peter.

 45  Philip found Nathaniel and told him, "We have found the man about whom Moses in the Law and the Prophets wrote—Jesus, the son of Joseph, from Nazareth."

 46  Nathaniel asked him, "From Nazareth? Can anything good come from there?" Philip told him, "Come and see!"

 47  Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward him and said about him, "Look, a genuine Israeli, in whom there is no deceit!"

 48  Nathaniel asked him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, while you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

 49  Nathaniel replied to him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!"

 50  Jesus told him, "Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than that."

 51  Then he told him, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, you will see heaven standing open and the angels of God going up and coming down to the Son of Man."

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REP. HENRY C. ONG
2nd District of Leyte
Chair, Committee on Banks & Financial Intermediaries
Member, Economic Affairs, Trade & Industry, and 9 other committees – 0917-729-2437

Make telecom, power lines 'Yolanda-proof'

BURY TELECOMS, POWER AND CABLE TV LINES UNDERGROUND, REP. HENRY ONG PROPOSES

[Start multi-year underground cabling in Eastern Visayas, other eastern parts of PHL]

Leyte 2nd District Rep. Henry C. Ong proposes to the Department of Energy and to the Department of Information and Communications Technology that all the country's electricity power, communication, and cable television lines be buried underground to avoid or minimize blackouts because of typhoons.

"The only place where our those cables will be protected versus typhoons and floods is underground. We must start doing this in 2019 and onwards as a climate change adaptation and disaster mitigation program, in response to the fact that much of our country is in the path of and is battered by storms all year," said Rep. Ong, Member of the House Committee on Energy and Committee on Information & Communications Technology.

The Leyte congressman said, "it is time we accept our fate as a typhoon-stricken country. Lagi na lang tayong binabayo ng bagyo, nagbabagsakan ng poste, at nalalagutan ng kable. Yung ibang pa bagyo ay sing-lakas pa ng bagong Yolanda. Ito ang mabisa at pangmatagalang solusyon."

Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) struck the Visayas on November 8, 2013.

"This will require massive investments and meticulous planning by both the power and telecoms sectors. It can be done gradually starting with Eastern Visayas, Bicol, northeastern Mindanao, and the eastern seaboard of Luzon because these are the areas  the typhoons hit land at full strength," said Ong.

Ong said underground cabling is already underway in Davao City. "Their experience there can serve as the model or prototype for the rest of the country." (END)

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Press Release: The Peso rediscount rates are based on the latest available BSP overnight lending rate, plus term premia per Circular No. 964 dated 27 June 2017. On the other hand, EDYRF rates are based on the respective 90-day London Inter-Bank Offered Rate as of 31 October 2018 plus 200 basis points plus term premia for longer maturities pursuant to Circular No. 807 dated 15 August 2013.

Under the Peso Rediscount Facility, total availments covering the period 01 January 2018 to 31 October 2018 amounted to ₱47,176 million, majority of which or 83.72 percent went to Other Credits. Specifically, these are distributed to Capital Asset Expenditures (52.99 percent), Other Services (20.48 percent), Permanent Working Capital (10.24 percent) and Housing (0.01 percent). The remaining portions went to Commercial Credits at 16.25 percent and Production Credits at 0.03 percent.

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Press Release: FDI Posts Net Inflows of US$752 Million in August 2018 & US$7.4 Billion in the First Eight Months of 2018

        Foreign direct investments (FDl) continued to post net inflows in August 2018, amounting to US$752 million, albeit 41.2 percent lower than the US$1.3 billion net inflows recorded in the same period last year.  Even as all FDl components registered positive balances, inflows were lower than the levels posted in August 2017. The bulk of the FDl net inflows for the month was in the form of investments in debt instruments (consisting mainly of intercompany borrowings/Iending between foreign direct investors and their subsidiaries/affiliates in the Philippines), which reached US$534 million. Net equity capital investments declined to US$172 million from US$652 million in the same month last year as gross placements (US$187 million from US$671 million) outweighed withdrawals (US$16 million from US$19 million). Equity capital infusions came mostly from Singapore, the United States, Japan, Hong Kong and China. These were invested mainly into firms engaged in manufacturing, real estate, electricity, gas, steam and air-conditioning supply, information and communication, and financial and insurance activities. Reinvest merit of earnings totaled US$47 million during the month.

        On a cumulative basis, FDl net inflows reached US$7.4 billion for the period January-August 2018, 31 percent higher than the US$5.7 billion net inflows registered last year. FDl inflows remained strong amid continued favorable investor sentiment on the Philippine economy on the back of the country's strong macroeconomic fundamentals and growth prospects. In particular, net equity capital investments grew more than twice to US$2 billion from US$990 million in 2017. This resulted as equity capital placements increased by 63.7 percent to US$2.2 billion, while withdrawals declined by 45.9 percent to US$196 million. Equity capital infusions during the period emanated mainly from Singapore, Hong Kong, the United States, Japan, and China. Over the first eight months, said investments were channeled mostly into firms engaged in manufacturing, financial and real estate, arts, entertainment and recreation, and electricity, gas, steam and air-condition in supply activities. Investments in debt instruments increased by 17.9 percent to US$4.9 billion from US$4.1 billion last year. Meanwhile, reinvest merit of earnings reached US$536 million during the period.

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REP. SALVADOR B. BELARO, JR.
1-Ang Edukasyon Party-list
Assistant Minority Leader
Member, Human Rights and 10 other committees
Former Commissioner, Commission on Bar Discipline,
Integrated Bar of the Philippines | Former Law School Dean

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FOR 8,701 BAR EXAMINEES, PATIENCE AND CALM ARE THE SAGE ADVICE OF FORMER IBP COMMISH REP. BELARO

For the 8,701 law school graduates "admitted to take the 2018 Bar Examinations" these coming four Sundays of November, 1-Ang Edukasyon Party-list Rep. Salvador Belaro Jr, a former Integrated Bar of the Philippines commissioner, sent out his morale booster message with reassuring words focused on "enlightened thoughts, sharp memory, and clear arguments, so they may respond to the bar questions firmly."

"A calm mind while taking the bar exams will allow for all the memories of those law school lessons to fall in place for recollection," Belaro said.

The former IBP official said "mastery of the law and profound clarity make for a powerful combination when that calm mind draws from its reservoir of stock knowledge."

Belaro advised the bar examinees "to rest well this long holiday weekend and take inspiration from the inspiring life examples of the dearly departed and from loved ones who remain by your side here among the living."

"Rest well, eat healthy, and be merry for you have made it this far after at least four long years. Good things come to those who wait. You have done your part, let God work His wonders," Belaro said. (END)

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HON. BERNADETTE "BH" HERRERA-DY               
Bagong Henerasyon Party-list
Assistant Majority Leader

Chair, Committee on Women & Gender Equality - 0917-729-2437

MGA BAGONG BATAS UKOL SA NUTRISYON, IBINIDA SA MADRID SUMMIT

Kababalik lang mula sa Madrid, Spain ni Bagong Henerasyon Party-list Rep. Bernadette Herrera-Dy na siyang naging kinatawan ng Kongreso sa kauna-unahang kumperensiya ng mga mambabatas ng buong mundo upang makabuo ng isang action plan kontra malnutrisyon at gutom.

Sa Madrid Summit na ginanap noong Oktubre 29-30, inilahad ni Congresswoman Herrera-Dy ang mga naisabatas na reporma sa mga polisiya ng Pilipinas, kabilang na ang tatlong bagong batas sa libreng patubig ng mga sakahan, buwis sa matatamis na inumin, at national school feeding program para sa kindergarten at elementary.

Ibinida rin ng Bagong Henerasyon kinatawan sa Kamara ang tatlong bill na malapit nang maging batas at limang mga panukalang sumusulong sa Kongreso.

Nalaman ni Rep. Herrera-Dy ang mahusay na ehemplo ng bansang Chile kung saan ang mga pagkaing bagsak sa nutrition content ay hindi pinapayagan mag-advertise.

Iniulat din ni Congresswoman Herrera-Dy ang ilang mga natatanging program ng ehekutibo tulad ng:

·      Farm-to-market roads
·      Coconut Rehabilitation Program
·      Gulayan sa Paaralan
·      Diskwento caravans in depressed areas
·      Family development sessions for child and family nutrition
·      SALINTUBIG and other water, sanitation and hygiene (END)

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GOV. IMEE R. MARCOS
Governor, Ilocos Norte (2010 – Present)
Representative, Second District of Ilocos Norte (1998 - 2007) - 0917-729-2437

KADIWA POP-UP STORES KAILANGAN NA PARA GUMINHAWA ANG PASKO NG MASA

Ibenta rin ang Nutri-'biscuits' sa Kadiwa

Sa mga susunod na linggo hanggang pagsapit ng Pasko, nariyan na sana, ayon kay Ilocos Norte Gov. Imee R. Marcos, ang mga bagong Kadiwa pop-up stores.

"Sa sobrang taas na ng presyo ng pagkain na hindi na maabot ng mga mahihirap, obligasyon ng pamahalaang sumaklolo," ani Gov. Marcos.

"Ngayon na ang tamang panahon para sa  mga Kadiwa stores. Ngunit sa halip na mobile o stores on wheels, ang modernong konsepto at disenyo na pop-up stores ang mas angkop ipatupad ngayon," dagdag ng gobernadora.

Paliwanag ni Gov. Marcos: "Let the middle class and the rich do their shopping for food and groceries at the public markets and supermarkets. The merchants are there for them. But for the poor, when prices at the public markets are too high for them to afford, the government's Kadiwa stores must be to the rescue."

Suhestiyon din ni Gov. Marcos na isama sa mga ibebenta sa Kadiwa stores ang monay-variant at biscuit-variant ng 'Nutribun'.

"To improve shelf life, the Nutribun we have in Ilocos Norte is now in biscuit form. The Nutribun is in the original monay-like version which should be consumed immediately. The biscuit form lasts longer," sabi ng gobernadora.  (WAKAS)

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REP. CARLOS ROMAN UYBARRETA
1st Consumers Alliance for Rural Energy, Inc.
1-CARE Party-list
Vice Chair, Committee on Energy
Mobile: 0917-729-2437 Twitter: @1CAREPartylist

Tax relief and cash grants needed to ease the economic pain

TOURIST ARRIVAL LIMITS, STRICT ACCREDITATION MEAN BUSINESS SLOWDOWN IN BORACAY

Tax relief for businesses, residents, and workers in Boracay and surrounding areas has become even more necessary now that it has become clear that tourist arrivals will be limited to Boracay's so-called "carrying capacity" and with new inspections processes government agencies put in place, said Rep. Carlos Roman Uybarreta, author of a bill granting a Boracay tax reprieve.

Uybarreta filed House Bill 8537 which seeks to provide a one-time allowable extraordinary operating loss deduction equivalent to fifty percent of audited operating losses incurred in taxable year 2018.

"Noting the continuing disregard to anti-littering and other environmental laws and regulations, there is an urgent need to impose stiffer fines and other administrative penalties against violators," the congressman said.

According to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Boracay has a "carrying capacity of of 19,000 tourists per day or about 55,000 people including residents, workers and tourists."

Meanwhile, the Department of Tourism said on October 25 that it accredited only 157 establishments in Boracay with total combined 7,300 rooms.

"With all these limitations, the financial health of Boracay businesses, employees, and residents will certainly be troubled this year and in 2019. Giving them urgent tax relief will ease the pain they are suffering," Rep. Uybarreta said.

The congressman added that the proposed Boracay Cleanup Shutdown Assistance and Ecological Sustainability Act also has provisions for cash grants for resident households or families of Boracay Island and the Municipalities of Malay and Caticlan in the Province of Aklan.

In HB 8537, the Department of Social Welfare and Development will be tasked to extend a special monthly cash grant in the following amounts:

a) Seven hundred pesos (P700.00) for every household member of families already enrolled in the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) of the DSWD;

b) Five hundred pesos for every household member of families not enrolled in the 4Ps of the DSWD, but whose income are derived purely from monthly compensation income of less than twenty thousand pesos (P20,000.00).

Funding for the Pantawid Cash Grants would come from the President's Social Fund, one percent of the lotto income of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office, and from taxes the national government earned from the implementation of Republic Act 10963.    

HB 8537 also creates a Boracay Ecological Sustainability Fund to be jointly administered by a Council made up of the Secretary of Tourism, Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, the chief executives of the barangays of Boracay Island and the municipalities of Malay and Caticlan of the Province of Aklan, and representatives of the local business and civil society sectors.

The fund shall partly finance the Boracay-Malay-Caticlan Sustainability Master Plan formulated and approved by the Fund Council.

Funding for the Boracay Ecological Sustainability Fund shall be derived from a Boracay Sustainability Fee of twenty pesos (P20.00) to be paid by every passenger of airlines and passenger ships traveling to and from Boracay, Caticlan.

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REP. RON P. SALO
KABAYAN Party-list
Deputy Majority Leader – 0917-729-2437
P25 MINIMUM WAGE HIKE RECOVERS SOME PURCHASING POWER LOST TO INFLATION

[Another wage hike might be needed if inflation hike persists]

The new P25 increase in minimum wage for Metro Manila will lift some of the financial burden resulting from inflation since last April, KABAYAN Party-list Rep. Ron P. Salo said.

"If a minimum daily wage earner works 20 days in a month, the P25 increase means about P500 for the month. Critics would say that it is too little. Yet, 500 pesos is still 500 pesos and it helps our workers recover some of the purchasing power consumers lost when inflation rose," the House Deputy Majority Leader said.

The legislator said, "the wage increase is in addition to the efforts of the government in improving rice supply and greater access of the poor to discounted basic goods."

"We hope that the Wage Boards in other regions will also immediately follow in issuing the new wage increases to benefit our workers in the countryside," Salo added.

Salo and the late KABAYAN Party-list Rep. Ciriaco Calalang are the authors of House Bill 7527 seeking to legislate a nationwide minimum daily wage of P600.

Salo said, KABAYAN Party-list's P600 minimum wage proposal is realistic because it is much closer to the current P537.00 NCR daily wage.

"P600 is a proposal, not just to our colleagues here in Congress, but also to the wage boards. We also invite the DOLE and its wage boards to recommend measures they deem are needed to update and upgrade the powers of the regional wage boards," Salo said.

The lawyer-solon also points out that the law which created the wage boards, was enacted way back in 1988 or 30 years ago, and already requires updating in order to make it more responsive to the needs of the labor sector and the employers.(END)

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REP. HENRY C. ONG
2nd District of Leyte
Chair, Committee on Banks & Financial Intermediaries
Member, Economic Affairs, Trade & Industry, and 9 other committees – 0917-729-2437

With October 2018 inflation staying at 6.7 percent...

RADICAL ANTI-INFLATION MEASURES NEEDED

[Suspend the BIR order on TRAIN Law fuel excise taxes]

"With the October inflation rate staying at 6.7 percent same as last September, there very clearly is a great and urgent need for much stronger anti-inflation measures. I appeal to President Rodrigo Duterte to suspend the BIR regulations implementing the fuel excise taxes of 2018 and 2019," Rep. Henry Ong said Tuesday morning shortly after government statisticians released the latest inflation report.

The Chair of the House Committee on Banks and Financial Intermediaries said, "while the TRAIN Law had lots of good intentions, it took effect in a perfect storm of high world oil prices and peso depreciation versus the US dollar, so the 3-in-1 mix is what led to the economic mess we are in today. Both the fuel excise taxes this year and next year must be stopped now."

"President Duterte cannot suspend the TRAIN LAW because only Congress can do that, but he can order the Department of Finance to suspend the implementing revenue regulations of the BIR while those regulations undergo revisions to cushion the inflationary impact," the Leyte 2nd District solon said. (END)

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Rules For My Daughter:
1. Make your bed every day; even if it's right before you get in it.
2. Don't wear holey underwear in case you're in an accident and they cut your clothes off.
3. Travel light through life. Keep only what you need.
4. Put butter on your biscuit , and twice as much when you miss me.
5. It's okay to cry when you're hurt. It's also okay to smash things; but, wash your face, clean your mess, and get up off the floor when you're done. You don't belong down there.
6. If you're going to curse, be clever. If you're going to curse in public, know your audience.
7. Seek out the people and places that resonate with your soul.
8. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
9. 5-second rule. It's just dirt. There are worse things in a fast food cheeseburger.
10. Happiness is not a permanent state. Wholeness is. Don't confuse these.
11. If you're staying more than one night, unpack your bag.
12. Never walk through an alley.
13. Be less sugar, more spice, and only as nice as you're able to without compromising yourself.
14. Can't is a cop-out.
15. Hold your heroes to a high standard. Be your own hero.
16. If you can't smile with your eyes, don't smile. Insincerity is nothing to aspire to.
17. Never lie to yourself.
18. Your body, your rules.
19. If you have an opinion, you better know why.
20. Practice your passions.
21. Ask for what you want. The worse thing they can say is no.
22. Wish on stars and dandelions, then get to work to make them happen.
23. Don't skimp on good sheets.
24. Fall in love often. Particularly with ideas, art, music, literature, food and far-off places.
25. Fall hard and forever in love with nothing but yourself.
26. Say Please, Thank You, and Pardon Me, whenever the situation warrants it.
27. Reserve I'm sorry for when you truly are.
28. Naps are for grown-ups, too.
29. Question everything except your own intuition.
30. You have enough. You are enough.
31. You are amazing! Don't let anyone ever make you feel you are not. If someone does....walk away. You deserve better.
32. No matter where you are, you can always go home.
33. Be happy, say your prayers and remember your roots.
34. Say what you mean and mean what you say.
35. No one will ever love you more than I do
36. I will always protect you and if anyone ever hurts you I'll always be there
Copy and paste. Post a picture of your daughter

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4 ANYOS NGA BATANG BABAYE, GILUGOS UG GIPATAY SA KAUGALINGONG IGSUON!
By RMN News

Polomolok, South Cotatabo--- Patay ang usa ka 4  anyos nga batang babaye human kining gilugos ug gipatay sa iyahang kaugalingong igsuon nga nailang si alyas Rot-Rot, 16 anyos nga residente sa Prk. Malabarbas, Brgy. Poblacion, Polomolok, South Cotabato.

Ang biktima gitago lang sa ngalang alyas Angel, 4 anyos nga residnete sa Polomolok, South Cotabato.

Sa imbestigasyon sa kapulisan, mibisita ang suspek sa panimalay sa biktima kung asa kini maoy gitugyanan nga magbantay una sa nasangpit.

Apan alas 4 ang takna sa hapon kagahapon, dihang gidala niini ang biktima sa creek nga bahin ug nagdulom matud pa ang iyahang panan-aw rason nga iyahang nahimo ang paglugos sa biktima ug iyaha kining gipatay pinaagi sa pagsampong sa ilong.

Dihang nasayran nga wala nay kinabuhi ang biktima, iyaha kining gisulod sa sako ug gihigtan dayon mipauli pa sa balay sa biktima.

Sumala kang Police Superintendent Josemarie Simangan, hepe sa polomolok PNP nga miuban pa ang suspek dihang nagpa-blotter ang ginikanan apan nakumbinsi matud pa kini sa Prk. Chairman ug mitug-an human nasayran nga kini maoy uwaheng kauban sa biktima.

Alas 11 na sa gabii dihang narekober ang patay'ng lawas sa biktima sa lugar kung asa niini gihimo ang krimen.

Sa karon, ang suspek ang gikatakda ng i-turn over sa DSWD apan magdepende matud pa sa pagsutra kung mamahimo kining mapasakaan ug kasong rape with homicide.

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2 ka anak sa pastor, patay sa pagpanunggab sa kapuyo sa ilang katabang
By RMN Gensan News

South Cotabato-- PATAY ang 4-anyos  ug  siyam ka kabulan palang nga bata human nga gidunggab sa kapuyo sa ilang yaya sulod mismo sa ilang panimalay sa  Zone 6, Barangay Libertad,  Surallah, South Cotabato  alas-8:30 kaganinang buntag.

Giila ang mga biktima nga silang Alias Cherish 4 anyos ug Jonah Grace,  9 month old, mga anak sa pastor.

Gibutyag ni  Police Chief Inspector  Lorenzo Henares, chief of police sa Surallah Municipal Police Station nga naglalis  matud pa ang suspek nga si George Jodilla, ug ang yaya sa mga biktima.

Milakaw matud pa ang yaya ug gibyaan ang iyang gibantayang mga bata, inay sundan sa suspek ang iyang live-in partner iya na nuong gipahimungtan ang duha ka mga bata ug gipangdunggab nga hinungdan sa ilang kamatayon.

Samtang ang suspek misuway ug pakamatay pinaagi sa pagdunggab sa iyang kaugalingon ug anaa karon sa kritikal nga kondisyon.

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I am The Jewish Nurse.

Yes, that Jewish Nurse. The same one that people are talking about in the Pittsburgh shooting that left 11 dead. The trauma nurse in the ER that cared for Robert Bowers who yelled, "Death to all Jews," as he was wheeled into the hospital. The Jewish nurse who ran into a room to save his life.

To be honest, I'm nervous about sharing this.  I just know I feel alone right now, and the irony of the world talking about me doesn't seem fair without the chance to speak for myself. 

When I was a kid, being labeled "The Jewish (anything)", undoubtedly had derogatory connotations attached to it.  That's why it feels so awkward to me that people suddenly look at it as an endearing term.  As an adult, deflecting my religion by saying "I'm not that religious," makes it easier for people to accept I'm Jewish – especially when I tell them my father is a rabbi. "I'm not that religious," is like saying, "Don't worry, I'm not that Jewish, therefore, I'm not so different than you," and like clockwork, people don't look at me as awkwardly as they did a few seconds beforehand.

I experienced anti-Semitism a lot as a kid. It's hard for me to say if it was always a product of genuine hatred, or if kids with their own problems found a reason to single me out from others.  Sure, there were a few Jewish kids at my school, but no one else had a father who was a Rabbi.  I found drawings on desks of my family being marched into gas chambers, swastikas drawn on my locker, and notes shoved inside of it saying, "Die Jew.  Love, Hitler."   It was a different time back then, where bullying was not monitored like it is now.  I was weak, too.  Rather than tell anyone, I hid behind fear.  Telling on the people who did this would only lead to consequences far worse.   

Regardless, the fact that this shooting took place doesn't shock me. To be honest, it's only a matter of time before the next one happens.  History refutes hope that things will change.  My heart yearns for change, but today's climate doesn't foster nurturing, tolerance, or civility.  Even before this shooting took place, there's no real evidence supporting otherwise.  The FBI and the Southern Poverty Law Center note that Jews only account for two percent of the U.S. population, yet 60% of all religious hate crimes are committed against them.  I don't know why people hate us so much, but the underbelly of anti-Semitism seems to be thriving.   

So now, here I am, The Jewish Nurse that cared for Robert Bowers. I've watched them talk about me on CNN, Fox News, Anderson Cooper, PBS, and the local news stations. I've read articles mentioning me in the NY Times and the Washington Post.  The fact that I did my job, a job which requires compassion and empathy over everything, is newsworthy to people because I'm Jewish. Even more so because my dad's a Rabbi.

To be honest, I didn't see evil when I looked into Robert Bowers' eyes. All I saw was a clear lack of depth, intelligence, and palpable amounts of confusion.  Robert Bowers probably had no friends, was easily influenced by propaganda, and wanted attention on a sociopathic level.   He's the kind of person that is easily manipulated by people with a microphone, a platform, and use fear for motivation.  I can't go into details of our interactions because of HIPPA, but Robert Bowers thanked me for saving him, for showing him kindness, and for treating him the same way I treat every other patient.  This was the same Robert Bowers that just committed mass homicide.  The Robert Bowers who instilled panic in my heart worrying my parents were two of his 11 victims less than an hour before his arrival.   

I'm sure he had no idea I was Jewish. Why thank a Jewish nurse, when 15 minutes beforehand, you'd shoot me in the head with no remorse? I didn't say a word to him about my religion. I chose not to say anything to him the entire time.  I wanted him to feel compassion.  I chose to show him empathy.  I felt that the best way to honor his victims was for a Jew to prove him wrong.  Besides, if he finds out I'm Jewish, does it really matter?  The better question is, what does it mean to you?   

Love. That's why I did it. Love as an action is more powerful than words, and love in the face of evil gives others hope. It demonstrates humanity.  It reaffirms why we're all here.   The meaning of life is to give meaning to life, and love is the ultimate force that connects all living beings.  I could care less what Robert Bowers thinks, but you, the person reading this, love is the only message I wish instill in you.  If my actions mean anything, love means everything. 

Respectfully,

Ari Mahler, RN.

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Davao del Sur, Philippines

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#DidYouKnow about 4,000 people died from tsunami caused by the magnitude 8.1 earthquake along Cotabato trench on August 17, 1976 at 12:11 AM (PST).

Tsunami waves as high as nine (9) meters struck the town of Lebak in Sultan Kudarat. It inundated almost all coastal towns of provinces bordering Moro Gulf such as Zamboanga Sibugay, Zamboanga Del Sur, Lanao Del Norte, Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao, Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani, Basilan, Sulu and Tawi Tawi and cities of Cotabato and Zamboanga.

Be infomed. Be prepared. Join us in the observance of the World Tsunami Awareness Day on November 5 &6: https://www.facebook.com/events/356455518425946/

#WTAD2018 #TsunamiDay #HandaAngMayAlam

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Optimism vs Pessimism

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In the Bible, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were not guaranteed deliverance. Just before Nebuchadnezzar delivered them to the fire, they offered some of the most courageous words ever spoken. "If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it . . . But even if he does not, we want you to know that we will not serve your gods . . . " (Daniel 3:17–18).

Even if.

Even if the worst happens, God's grace is sufficient. Those three young men faced the fire without fear because they knew that whatever the outcome, it would ultimately be for their good and for God's glory. They did not ask "what if" the worst happened. They were satisfied knowing that "even if" the worst happened, God would take care of them.

Even if.

Those two simple words have taken the fear out of life. Replacing "what if" with "even if" is one of the most liberating exchanges we can ever make. We trade our irrational fears of an uncertain future for the loving assurance of an unchanging God. We see that even if the worst happens, God will carry us. He will still be good. And he will never leave us.

https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/what-if-the-worst-happens

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PNP expects 5 000 additional policemen in 2003

      BACOLOD CITY,  Oct. 1, 2002 (PNA) -- The Philippine National Police
(PNP) plans to hire an additional 5,000 policemen next year to
further beef up its forces.

      Senior Supt. Leopoldo Bataoil, PNP spokesman, said here,
however, that whether or not Western Visayas, particularly Negros
Occidental, will be alloted some, "is not known yet."

      Bataoil said the appropriation for the additional 5,000 police
personnel has already been included in the 2003 national budget.

      Negros Occidental lacks 175 policemen to meet the standard
ratio of one PNP member per 1,000 Negrenses. It also faces shortage
of firearms.

     On the other hand, the recruitment of 200 additional policemen
allocated for Region 6 by Camp Crame,  was cancelled for lack of
budgetary support.

     Bataoil said PNP Director-General Hermogenes Ebdane, Jr. has
ordered the deployment of 75 per cent of police stations' manpower to
the streets "to maximize visibility operation in identified
crime-prone areas."

     The lack of manpower, communication facilities and firearms have
been the common complaints of  police chiefs here in a  command
conference held in northern and southern Negros last week.

      Senior Supt. Gerry Barias, PNP Firearms and Explosives Office
chief said Negros Occidental PNP topped the list of police units
nationwide with firearm shortage.

      About 280 policemen, equivalent to 20 per cent of the 1,400
policemen in Negros Occidental have no short firearms, police records
show.  (PNA)

VCS/JCN/CDP/SVV/GMDC/nlp

Fight, Bisaya

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Avoid the 12 Dangers of Christmas (From OMECA IEC)

While the holidays are a characteristically joyous time of year, they can also be hazardous if simple safety precautions aren't followed.  Learn from the mistakes of the naughty Christmas elf as you and your loved ones celebrate the holiday season.
1. Do not use electronic near water.
2. Never sleep with electronics under your pillow.
3. Keep batteries safely stored in their packaging they can be deadly if swallowed.
4. Do not leave space heaters unattended when in use.
5. Keep decorations at least 3 feet away from any open flame.
6. Never play with fire.
7. Do not run cords under carpets, rugs, furniture, or out of windows.
8. Do not overload outlets.
9. Sometimes less is more be careful not to over decorate.
10. Always turn off decorations when you're sleeping or leaving your home.
11. Inspect all decorations and discard any that are damaged or worn.
12. Keep your natural Christmas tree hydrated and water it daily.

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Or si Botoy ba ni, bai Hubz?

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