I wonder what impact it has had on our way of thinking that in many Bibles the words of Jesus are printed in red? The implication seems to be that they are possibly the most important parts of the Bible we can read.

Jesus’ words…

But why not highlight and focus on his actions? Why choose his words?

Could that be our inherent bias for learning via spoken words rather than by action? Could it be that we see him preaching and think ‘Ah this is the important part?’

What if we went thru and highlighted everything Jesus did? To go a step further, what if we deleted everything he taught and only left his actions (I know – tricky) But I wonder what we would see and what we might learn from this.

We say that actions speak louder than words, or even that our actions are evidence of what we believe but we have put the emphasis on the words. For many of us words are cheap and easy – we can talk a good game whether or not we follow thru with action. Obviously Jesus’ life and actions were in sync, but we have chosen his words as the focus.

So I propose a new blue letter Bible where the actions of Jesus are all highlighted in blue font because these acfions are the outcome of his teaching and the stuff we are to imitate.

As you were