John — Book Source

Translation profile

Language: English. Collection scope: protestant.

Translation: Dr. Jonathan Gallagher

Publisher: Free Bible Ministry; distributed by eBible.org

Copyright © 2018 Dr. Jonathan Gallagher. Free Bible Version; https://ebible.org/details.php?id=engfbv. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Spirit Nation normalized USFX display formatting and whitespace, retained the supplied primary wording and chapter/verse labels, and separated source headings, footnotes and cross-references from primary verse text. Formatting and editorial metadata are a Spirit Nation rendering; the original licensor does not necessarily endorse these changes. Spirit Nation contributions to this rendering are distributed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source-text reuse rights are not narrowed by service access plans. Actual package and its metadata scope contain the complete 66-book Bible without deuterocanon, despite a stale New Testament-and-Psalms description in the distributor record. The translator's current website identifies a full Bible version 5.2 dated October 2025 and links eBible; this package is identified by its own exact source update and hash, not assumed to equal an unverified numbered release. Original source package: https://ebible.org/Scriptures/engfbv_usfx.zip. Separate images and host-page materials are excluded.

Copyright © 2018 Dr. Jonathan Gallagher

Spirit Nation normalized USFX display formatting and whitespace, retained the supplied primary wording and chapter/verse labels, and separated source headings, footnotes and cross-references from primary verse text. Formatting and editorial metadata are a Spirit Nation rendering; the original licensor does not necessarily endorse these changes. Spirit Nation contributions to this rendering are distributed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source-text reuse rights are not narrowed by service access plans.

Source chapter and verse labels, including combined ranges, are retained. No cross-translation word alignment or verse equivalence is asserted.

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Actual package and its metadata scope contain the complete 66-book Bible without deuterocanon, despite a stale New Testament-and-Psalms description in the distributor record. The translator's current website identifies a full Bible version 5.2 dated October 2025 and links eBible; this package is identified by its own exact source update and hash, not assumed to equal an unverified numbered release.

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