M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan
The transfiguration of Christ upon the Mount of Tabor. He heals the frenzied boy, and pays the tribute levy to Rome.
17 And after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and James’ brother John, and brought them up into a high mountain out of the way. 2 And he was transfigured before them. And his face did shine like the sun, and his clothes were as white as the light. 3 And behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, talking with him.
4 Then Peter spoke and said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here. If you will, let us make here three tabernacles: one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah.
5 While he was yet speaking, behold, a bright cloud covered them. And behold, there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my dear Son, in whom I delight. Hear him!
6 When the disciples heard this, they fell on their faces and were sore afraid. 7 And Jesus came and touched them and said, Arise, and do not be afraid. 8 And when they looked up, they saw no one but Jesus only.
9 And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, See that you tell no one about the vision until the Son of man is risen up again from death. 10 And his disciples asked of him, saying, Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first? 11 Jesus answered and said to them, Elijah does come first, and restore all things. 12 And I say to you that Elijah has come already, and they did not know him, but have done to him whatever they pleased. In like manner will the Son of man also suffer at their hands. 13 Then the disciples perceived that he was speaking to them of John the Baptist.
14 And when they had come to the people, a certain man came to Jesus and kneeled down to him and said, 15 Master, have mercy on my son, for he is delirious, and is sorely vexed. And often he falls into the fire, and often into the water. 16 And I brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him. 17 Jesus answered and said, O generation faithless and perverse, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you? Bring him here to me.
18 And Jesus rebuked the devil, and he came out of him. And the child was healed even at that same hour.
19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and asked, Why could we not cast him out? 20 Jesus said to them, Because of your unbelief. For I say truly to you, if you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, Move over there, and it would move; neither should anything be impossible for you to do. 21 However, this kind does not go out but by prayer and fasting.
22 As they passed the time in Galilee, Jesus said to them, The Son of man will be betrayed into the hands of men, 23 and they will kill him; and the third day he will rise again. And they sorrowed greatly.
24 And when they had come to Capernaum, men that collected the poll money came to Peter and asked, Does your teacher pay tribute? 25 He said, Yes. And when he had come into the house, Jesus spoke first to him, saying, What do you think, Simon: from whom do the kings of the earth take tribute or poll money? From their children, or from others? 26 Peter answered, From others. And Jesus said to him, Then the children are free. 27 Nevertheless, lest we offend them, go to the sea and cast in your hook, and take the fish that first comes up. And when you have opened its mouth, you will find a coin. Take it, and pay for me and you.
Paul goes to Thessalonica, where the Jews set the city on a roar. Paul escapes and goes to Athens, where he preaches the true and unknown God.
17 As they made their journey through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. 2 And Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures, 3 explaining and showing that the Christ must necessarily have suffered and risen again from death, and that this Jesus was Christ, whom (said he) I preach to you. 4 And some of them believed, and came and kept company with Paul and Silas; also of the honourable Greeks a great number, and of the chief women not a few.
5 But the Jews who did not believe, being indignant, took some evil men who were vagabonds and gathered a company, and set all the city on a roar, and attacked the house of Jason, and intended to bring Paul and Silas out to the people. 6 But when they did not find them, they drew Jason and certain brethren to the officials of the city, shouting, Those men that trouble the world have come here also, 7 and Jason took them in. And these people all go contrary to the decrees of Caesar, affirming another king, one Jesus!
8 And the people and the officials of the city were troubled when they heard these things. 9 But when they were sufficiently answered by Jason and by the others, they let them go.
10 And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night to Berea. When they arrived there, they entered into the synagogue of the Jews. 11 These were the noblest of birth among those of Thessalonica, and received the word with all diligence of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. 12 And many of them believed; also noble women who were Greek, and men not a few.
13 When the Jews of Thessalonica learned that the word of God was preached by Paul at Berea, they came and stirred up the people there. 14 And then immediately the brethren sent Paul away to go to the sea, but Silas and Timothy remained there still. 15 And the men who guided Paul brought him to Athens, and were given a message for Silas and Timothy to come to him at once, and went their way.
16 While Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was moved in him, to see the city given to the worship of idols. 17 Then he spoke at length in the synagogue with the Jews and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with those who came to him. 18 Certain philosophers of the Epicures and of the Stoics debated with him. And there were some who said, What will this babbler say? Other said, He seems to be a preacher of new devils, because he preached Jesus and the resurrection to them. 19 And they took him and brought him into Mars Street, saying, May we not know what this new doctrine is of which you speak? 20 For you bring strange tidings to our ears. We would like to know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For all the Athenians and foreigners who were there gave themselves to nothing else but either to tell or to hear new things.)
22 Paul stood in the middle of Mars Street and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are too superstitious. 23 For as I passed by and saw how you worship your gods, I found an altar on which was written, to the unknown god. Him then, whom you worship without knowledge, I proclaim to you. 24 God, who made the world and everything that is in it, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands. 25 Neither is he worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives life and breath to all people everywhere. 26 And he has made from one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, determining beforehand how long, and also the bounds of their habitation, 27 desiring them to seek God, if they might feel after and find him – though he is not far from any one of us. 28 For in him we live and move and have our being, as certain of your own poets have said. For we are also his offspring. 29 Since, then, we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the godhead is as gold, silver, or stone, graven by the craft and imagination of man.
30 And God overlooked the time of this ignorance. But now he bids all people everywhere to repent, 31 because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world according to righteousness, by that man whom he has appointed. And he has offered faith to all peoples, after raising him from death.
32 When they heard of the resurrection from death, some mocked, but others said, We would like to hear you again concerning this matter.
33 Leaving it there, Paul departed from the assembly. 34 However, certain men joined with Paul and believed, among whom was Dionysius, a member of the aristocratic council, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
Copyright © 2016 by Ruth Magnusson (Davis). Includes emendations to February 2022. All rights reserved.