Words by Jesse Serwer, via BBC and Reid Van Renesse

For the first time, Jesus will be communicating to Jamaicans in their own language. According to an in-depth story posted on the BBC’s website Christmas Eve, translators at the Bible Society in Kingston are developing a Patois Bible, which they intend to publish in time for the 50th anniversary of Jamaica’s independence in August. Meanwhile, congregants at Jamaica’s Spanish Town Tabernacle are already reading from a good book entitled Jiizas: di Buk We Luuk Rait bout Im.