Colossians About this letter - Plain English Version(PEV)

About this letterPaul wrote this letter about 2,000 years ago, about 30 years after Jesus went back to heaven, and it is now in the Holy Bible.God sent Paul to lots of countries and lots of towns to tell people about Jesus. Epafras heard Paul’s message, and he believed in Jesus. Then Epafras went to the town called Colossae, to tell the people there about Jesus. Colossae was in the country that is now called Turkey. About 1,100 years later some enemy soldiers broke Colossae down, and today there are just stones and rubbish at that place in Turkey.At the time when Paul wrote this letter, the Roman people were the bosses over lots of nations. The Roman bosses didn’t like Paul telling people about Jesus, so they grabbed him and put him in jail. Epafras visited him there in jail and told him about the Christians at Colossae. He also told Paul that some people were teaching them lies. So Paul wrote this letter to the Christians at Colossae, to tell them the true message so that they would not believe those lying teachers. He was still in jail when he wrote this letter.This letter has good messages for us today. We have to take notice of those messages that Paul wrote to the Christians at Colossae.Chapter