Comments on: ‘Net Jesus Red’

By: Tyler

Tyler — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:22:54 +0000

There’s another Jesus message written on a mountainside east of the R26 just before Fouriesburg. Can’t find it myself but I’ve seen it while driving to Rustler’s Valley. There’s probably hundreds more in South Africa alone. They keep popping up like crop circles, except in this case it’s the boers themselve that create them.

By: Erwin

Erwin — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:08:56 +0000

“only Jesus saves” is correct. Its not dutch its Afrikaans (which is very close though). e

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 19:37:37 +0000

Afrikaans evolved from Dutch and other languages in what is now South Africa and Namibia. I think that means it is “native” to South Africa by many definitions. Of course, if you use “native” to mean “black African” then Afrikaans is not native as it is the mother tongue of white and coloured people. Then again, the black African (Bantu) languages evolved far away to the north of South Africa too.

By: estelle

estelle — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:13:27 +0000

Afrikaans is not a native language!

By: LoganV

LoganV — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 07:32:21 +0000

Afrikaners rule!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 18:36:58 +0000

Hi, all of you Dutch people… The Afrikaaners have this one waxed. “Only Jesus Saves”

Come to Pretoria and see for yourself. Boyakasha.

By: Pieter Odendaal

Pieter Odendaal — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 13:37:56 +0000

I am a South African Afrikaaner and the message means “Only Jesus Saves” nothing more and nothing less:)

By: Grohl

Grohl — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 07:11:22 +0000

In Spanish language, the word ‘Red’ means the same that the English word ‘Net’
Curious …

By: WollV

WollV — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 08:03:42 +0000

Hi guys! I’m Afrikaan, live in Pretoria, South Africa and can confirm that it translates into “Only Jesus Saves”.

By: Original

Original — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 02:49:29 +0000

Hey guys, I think I might be able to help out since I’m dutch :p

The word on the left says “Net” wich we use for the English “Just” and your “Net” as in Fishing net, I’m guessing the context it was used it would be the first.

The other 2 words are “Jesus” and “Red” there’s also a faint exclamation mark. Since you all know what Jesus means I’ll just skip that and move on to “Red”. In litteral translation its “Save” but in this context it would be “Saves”.

So it just says “Jesus Saves!”

Also a pretty neat “thing”: Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

Sortof resembles a face, my best guess is that its photoshopped in since it just doesn’t look natural. But hey, I never trusted google anyway:p