“Whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16b)
Bible translators in the New Hebrides islands struggled to find an appropriate verb for believe. This was a serious problem, as the word and the concept are essential to Scripture.
One Bible translator, John G. Paton, accidentally came upon a solution while hunting with a tribesman. The two men bagged a large deer and carried it on a pole along a steep mountain path to Paton’s home. When they reached the veranda, both men dropped the load and plopped into the porch chairs. As they did so, the native exclaimed in the language of the people, "My, it is good to stretch yourself out here and rest.” Paton immediately reached for paper and pencil and recorded the phrase.
As a result, his final translation of John 3:16 could be worded: “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever stretches oneself out on Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
Stretch out on Christ and rest.
-- Max Lucado in “Cast of Characters: Common People in the Hands of an Uncommon God”
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