“To commemorate your 150th anniversary, American Bible Society is sending this original 1872 hand-carved wood block, which produced four pages of the Gospel of John. We selected this wood block especially because it contains Jesus's famous conversation with Nicodemus in which he declared,
" For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Soninto the world to be its judge, but to be its savior" (John 3:16-17, GNT).
God has always loved all the peoples of the world. Even when our peoples are separated by political strife and cultural misunderstandings, we are always united as children of God, members of the body of Christ, and partners in the work of the Gospel. May our Heavenly Father continue to bless you abundantly until all know Christ.”