M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan

In Bethany At a Dinner For Jesus And Lazarus, Mary Anoints Jesus

12 Therefore Jesus, six days before the Passover [Feast], came to Bethany where Lazarus was, the one whom Jesus raised from the dead. ² So they made a dinner for Him there. And Martha was serving. And Lazarus was one of the ones reclining-back [to eat] with Him. ³ Then Mary, having taken a pound of very-valuable genuine^[a] nard perfume, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair. And the house was filled from the aroma of the perfume. ⁴ But Judas the Iscariot— one of His disciples, the one going to hand Him over— says, ⁵ “For what reason was this perfume not sold for three-hundred denarii^[b] and given to poor ones?” ⁶ Now he said this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief. And having the money-box, he was carrying^[c] the things being put there. ⁷ So Jesus said, “Leave her alone. It was^[d] in order that she might keep it for the day of My preparation-for-burial. ⁸ For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me”. ⁹ Then the large crowd^[e] of the Jews came-to-know that He was there. And they came— not because of Jesus only, but in order that they might also see Lazarus, whom He raised from the dead. ¹⁰ And the chief priests planned to kill Lazarus also, ¹¹ because many of the Jews were going-away and were believing in Jesus because of him.

Jesus The King Enters Jerusalem On a Donkey, As Predicted By Zechariah

¹² On the next day the large crowd^[f]— the one having come to the Feast— having heard^[g] that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, ¹³ took the branches of palm-trees and came out to meet Him. And they were shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is the One coming in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel”. ¹⁴ And Jesus, having found a young-donkey, sat on it, just as it has been written [in Zech 9:9]: ¹⁵ “Do not be fearing, daughter of Zion. Behold— your King is coming, sitting on a colt of a donkey”. ¹⁶ His disciples did not understand these things at first. But when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written for^[h] Him, and that they did these things to Him. ¹⁷ Then the crowd^[i] was testifying— the one being with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead. ¹⁸ For this reason also the crowd^[j] met Him— because they heard that He had done this sign. ¹⁹ Then the Pharisees said to themselves, “You see that you are profiting nothing! Look— the world went after Him!”

Jesus Says The Hour For Which He Came Has Come. A Seed Must Die To Bear Fruit

²⁰ Now some of the ones going up in order that they might worship at the Feast were Greeks^[k]. ²¹ So these ones came to Philip, the one from Bethsaida of Galilee, and were asking him, saying, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus”. ²² Philip comes and tells Andrew. Andrew and Philip come, and they tell Jesus. ²³ And Jesus responds to them, saying, “The hour has come for^[l] the Son of Man to be glorified. ²⁴ Truly, truly, I say to you, unless the seed of wheat having fallen to the earth dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit. ²⁵ The one loving his life loses it, and the one hating his life in this world will keep^[m] it for eternal life. ²⁶ If anyone serves Me, let him be following Me. And where I am, there also My servant will be. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him. ²⁷ Now My soul has been troubled. And what should I say— ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But for this reason I came to this hour! ²⁸ Father, glorify Your name!”

Now Is The Judgment of This World. If I Am Lifted Up, I Will Draw All People To Myself

Then a voice came from heaven: “I both glorified it, and will again glorify it”. ²⁹ Then the crowd, the one standing there and having heard, was saying that thunder had taken place. Others were saying, “An angel has spoken to Him”. ³⁰ Jesus responded and said, “This voice has taken place not for My sake, but for your sakes. ³¹ Now is the judgment of this world! Now the ruler of this world will be cast out! ³² And if I am lifted-up^[n] from the earth, I will draw all people to Myself ”. ³³ Now He was saying this signifying by what-kind-of death He was going to die.

Believe In The Light While You Have The Light, That You May Become Sons of Light

³⁴ Then the crowd responded to Him, “We heard from the Law that the Christ remains forever. How indeed do You say that ‘The Son of Man must be lifted-up^[o]’? Who is this Son of Man?” ³⁵ Then Jesus said to them, “The Light is among you for a short time longer. Be walking while you have the Light, in order that darkness may not overtake you. Indeed the one walking in the darkness does not know where he is going. ³⁶ While you have the Light, be believing in the Light, in order that you may become sons of Light”. Jesus spoke these things, and having gone away, was hidden from them.

Isaiah Is Fulfilled: God Blinded Their Eyes And Hardened Their Hearts

³⁷ Now He having done so-many^[p] signs in front of them^[q]— they were not believing in Him, ³⁸ in order that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled which he spoke [in Isa 53:1]: “Lord, who believed our report? And to whom was the arm of the Lord revealed?” ³⁹ For this reason^[r] they were not able to believe: because again Isaiah said [in Isa 6:10] ⁴⁰ “He has blinded their eyes, and He hardened their heart, in order that they might not see with their eyes, and comprehend in their heart, and be turned, and I shall heal them”. ⁴¹ Isaiah said these things because he saw His glory and spoke about Him. ⁴² Yet indeed, even many of the rulers believed in Him. But because of the Pharisees, they were not confessing it in order that they might not become put-out-of-the-synagogue. ⁴³ For they loved the glory of people more^[s] than the glory of God.

I Came To Save The World, And I Spoke The Father’s Words. My Words Are Eternal Life

⁴⁴ And^[t] Jesus cried-out and said “The one believing in Me is not believing in Me, but in the One having sent Me. ⁴⁵ And the one seeing Me is seeing the One having sent Me. ⁴⁶ I have come into the world as a light, so that everyone believing in Me should not remain in the darkness. ⁴⁷ And if anyone hears My words and does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I did not come in order that I might judge the world, but in order that I might save the world. ⁴⁸ The one rejecting Me and not receiving My words has that which judges him— the word which I spoke, that will judge him at the last day. ⁴⁹ Because I did not speak out of Myself, but the Father having sent Me— He has given Me a commandment as to what I should say and what I should speak. ⁵⁰ And I know that His commandment is eternal life. Therefore the things which I speak— just as the Father has told Me, so I speak”.

This Power Made Us Alive From The Dead And Seated Us With Christ As Recipients of Grace

2 Indeed, you were dead in your trespasses and sins ² in which you formerly walked in accordance with the [present] age^[a] of this world, in accordance with the ruler of the authority^[b] of the air, of ^[c] the spirit^[d] now being at-work in the sons of ^[e] disobedience, ³ among whom even we all formerly conducted-ourselves^[f] in the desires of our flesh, doing the wants^[g] of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of ^[h] wrath, as also the rest. ⁴ But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, ⁵ even we being dead in trespasses, made-us-alive-with Christ— by grace you are saved— ⁶ and raised-us-with Him and seated-us-with Him in the heavenly-places in Christ Jesus, ⁷ in order that He might demonstrate^[i] in the coming ages^[j] the surpassing riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

For We Are Saved By Grace For The Good Works Which God Prepared For Us

⁸ For by grace you are saved through faith. And this^[k] is not from you. It is the gift of God— ⁹ not of works, in order that no one may boast. ¹⁰ For we are His workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared-beforehand in order that we might walk in them.

So Remember Your Hopeless Condition As Gentiles Without Christ And God’s Promises

¹¹ Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh— the ones being called “the uncircumcised” by the one being called “the circumcised” (one done-by-human-hands in the flesh)— ¹² that you were at that time without Christ, having been excluded from the citizenship^[l] of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without-God in the world.

But Now Christ Made Peace And Reconciled Jews And Gentiles To God Through The Cross

¹³ But now in Christ Jesus you, the ones formerly being far-away, were made near by the blood of Christ. ¹⁴ For He Himself is our peace, the One having made both one and having broken-down the dividing-wall of partition^[m], the hostility— in His flesh ¹⁵ having abolished^[n] the Law of commandments in decrees^[o] in order that He might create the two in Himself into one new man, making peace, ¹⁶ and reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility by it^[p]. ¹⁷ And having come, He announced-as-good-news peace to you, the ones far-away, and peace to the ones near, ¹⁸ because^[q] through Him we both have the access in^[r] one Spirit to the Father.

So You Are No Longer Strangers, But In Christ You Are Fellow Citizens And Family Members

¹⁹ So then, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow-citizens with the saints and family-members of God, ²⁰ having been built upon the foundation of ^[s] the apostles and prophets— Christ Jesus Himself being the cornerstone, ²¹ in Whom the whole building being fitted-together^[t] is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, ²² in Whom also you are being built-together into a dwelling-place of God in^[u] the Spirit.