The Message
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The Message is a modern translation of the Holy Bible created by Pastor Eugene Peterson. The purpose of the translation was to capture what Peterson calls the "vitality and directness that I sensed as I read and studied the New Testament in its original Greek." Seeking to trnaslate the Bible in a way that would read to English speakers as it would have read to Greek speakers, he wrote much of it in an informal fashion.