In this task, you're given a sentence and your task is to generate a simplified sentence that focuses on lexical paraphrasing from the original sentence given in the input.
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Question: the four canonical texts are the gospel of matthew , gospel of mark , gospel of luke and gospel of john , probably written between ad 65 and 100 -lrb- see also the gospel according to the hebrews -rrb-.

Answer: the four canonical texts are the gospels of matthew , mark , luke and john , written between ad 65 and 100.


Question: mercury is similar in appearance to the moon : it is heavily cratered with regions of smooth plains , has no natural satellites and no substantial atmosphere.

Answer: mercury , which looks like the moon with its many craters and areas of smoothness , has no orbiting bodies around it and a minimal atmosphere.


Question: microsoft phased out all development of its java virtual machine -lrb- jvm -rrb- from windows 2000 in sp3.

Answer:
1 . microsoft gradually reduced all development of its java virtual machine -lrb- jvm -rrb- from windows 2000 in sp3.